=Fitzurse= (_Lord Wildemar_), a baron in the suite of Prince John of Anjou (brother of Richard Cœur de Lion).—Sir W. Scott, _Ivanhoe_ (time, Richard I.). =Five Kings of France=, the five directors (1795). The five kings of France sit in their curule chairs with their flesh-colored breeches and regal mantles.—_Atalier du Lys_, ii. =Flaccus=, Horace the Roman poet, whose full name was Quintus Horātius Flaccus (B.C. 65-8). =Fladdock= (_General_), a friend of the Norris family in America, and, like them, devoted to titles, and aristocracy.—C. Dickens, _Martin Chuzzlewit_ (1844). =Flam´berge= (2 _syl._), the sword which Maugis took from Anthe´nor the Saracen admiral, when he attacked the castle of Oriande la Fée. The sword was made by Weyland, the Scandinavian Vulcan.—_Romance of Maugis d’Aygremont et de Vivian son Frère_. =Flamborough= (_Solomon_), farmer. A talkative neighbor of Dr. Primrose, vicar of Wakefield. Moses Primrose marries one of his daughters. _The Misses Flamborough_, daughters of the farmer. Their homeliness contrasts well with the flashy pretenders to fashion introduced by Squire Thornhill.—Goldsmith, _Vicar of Wakefield_ (1766). =Flame= (_Lord_), Johnson the jester and dramatist, author of _Hurlo-Thrumbo,_ an extravaganza (1729). =Flammer= (_The Hon. Mr. Frisk_), a Cantab, nephew to Lord Totterly. He is a young gentleman with a vivid imagination, small income, and large debts.—C. Selby, _The Unfinished Gentleman_. =Flammock= (_Wilkin_), a Flemish soldier and burgess at the Castle of Garde Doloureuse. _Rose or Roschen Flammock_, daughter of Wilkin Flammock, and attendant on Lady Eveline.—Sir. W. Scott, _The Betrothed_ (time, Henry II.). =Flanders= (_Moll_), a woman of extraordinary beauty, born in Old Bailey. She was twelve years a harlot, five years a wife, twelve years a thief, and eight years a convict in Virginia; but ultimately she became rich, lived honestly, and died a penitent in the reign of Charles II.—Defoe, _The Fortunes of Moll Flanders_. =Flash= (_Captain_), a blustering, cowardly braggart, “always talking of fighting and wars.” In the Flanders war he pretended to be shot, sneaked off into a ditch, and thence to England. When Captain Loveit met him paying court to Miss Biddy Bellaw, he commanded the blustering coward to “deliver up his sword,” and added: “Leave this house, change the color of your clothes and fierceness of your looks; appear from top to toe the very wretch thou art!”—D. Garrick, _Miss in Her Teens_ (1753). =Fla´vius,= the faithful, honest steward of Timon the man-hater.—Shakespeare, _Timon of Athens_ (1600).