_Flem´ing_ (_Archdeacon_), the clergyman to whom old Meg Murdockson made her confession.—Sir W. Scott, _Heart of Midlothian_ (time, George II.). _Fleming_ (_Sir Malcolm_), a former suitor of Lady Margaret de Hautlieu.—Sir W. Scott, _Castle Dangerous_ (time, Henry I.). _Fleming_ (_Lady Mary_), one of the maids of honor to Mary Queen of Scots.—Sir W. Scott, _The Abbot_ (time, Elizabeth). _Fleming_ (_Rose_), niece of Mrs. Maylie. Rose marries her cousin Harry Maylie. She was past 17. Cast in so slight and exquisite a mould, so mild and gentle, so pure and beautiful, that earth seemed not her element, nor its rough creatures her fit companions. The very intelligence that shone in her deep blue eye ... seemed scarcely ... of the world, and yet the changing expression of sweetness and good-humor, the thousand lights that played about the face ... above all the smile, the cheerful, happy smile, were made for home and fireside peace and happiness.—C. Dickens, _Oliver Twist_, xxix. (1837). =Flemish School= (_The_), a school of painting commencing in the fifteenth century, with the brothers Van Eyck. The chief _early_ masters were Memling, Van der Weyden, Matsys, and Mabuse. The chief of the _second_ period were Rubens, Vandyck, Snyders, Jordæns, Gaspar de Crayer and the younger Teniers. =Flemming= (_Paul_), scholarly hero of Longfellow’s _Hyperion_. Among the storied ruins of the Old World, he wins his bride by weaving to her stories from his own imagination (1839). =Fleshly School= (_The_), a class of British poets of which Swinburne, Rossetti, Morris, etc., are exponents; so called from the sensuous character of their poetry. ⁂ It was Thomas Maitland [_i.e._ R. W. Buchanan] who first gave them this appellation in the _Contemporary Review_. =Fletcher= (_Dick_), one of the crew of a pirate vessel.—Sir W. Scott, _The Pirate_ (time, William III.). _Fletcher_ (_Philip_), fine gentleman, suitor of Christie, in Louisa M. Olcot’s novel “_Work_.” =Fleur de Marie=, the betrothed of Captain Phœbus.—Victor Hugo, _Notre Dame de Paris_ (1831). =Fleurant=, an apothecary. He flies into a rage because Bérald (2 _syl._) says to his brother, “Remettez cela à une fois, et demeurez un peu en repos.” The apothecary flares out, “De quoi vous mêlez vous de vous opposer aux ordonnance de la medicine ... je vais dire à Monsieur Purgon comme on m’a empêché d’executer ses ordres.... Vous verrez, vous verrez.”—Molière, _La Malade Imaginaire_ (1673). =Flib´bertigib´bet=, the fiend that gives man the squint eye and harelip, sends mildews and blight, etc. This is the foul fiend Flibbertigibbet ... he gives the web and the pin [_diseases of the eye_], squints the eye, and makes the hare-lip; mildews the white heat, and hurts the poor creature of earth.—_King Lear_, act iii. sec. 4 (1605). ⁂ Shakespeare got this name from bishop Harsnett’s _Declaration of Popish Impostures_, where Flibberdigibet is one of the fiends which the Jesuits cast out of Mr. Edmund Peckham.