=Flying Dutchman= (_The_), a phantom ship, seen in stormy weather off the Cape of Good Hope, and thought to forebode ill luck. The legend is that it was a vessel laden with precious metal, gained by murder and piracy on the high seas. In punishment, the plague broke out among the crew; no port would admit them, and the ship must sail the seas till doomsday. Another legend is, that a Dutch captain, homeward-bound, driven back by continued storms off the Cape, swore that he would double the Cape if he sailed till the day of doom. Taken at his word, he must now sail the seas forever.—Captain Marryat, _The Phantom Ship_. Richard Wagner’s opera, _Der Fliegende Holländer_, adds a loftier motive to the legend. The doomed captain cannot find rest until some woman consents to share his fate. Elsa, moved by pity, makes the sacrifice and saves him from perdition. =Flying Highwayman.= William Harrow, who leaped his horse over turn-pike gates as if it had been furnished with wings. He was executed in 1763. =Flynn= (Tom), of Virginia. “Thar in the drift, back to the wall, He held the timbers ready to fall Then, in the darkness I heard him call:— “Run for your life, Jake! run for your wife’s sake Don’t wait for me!” And that was all Heard in the din, Heard of Tom Flynn,— Flynn of Virginia!” Story told by the miner whose life he saved.—Bert Harte, _In the Tunnel_ (1874). =Flyter= (_Mrs._), landlady of the lodgings occupied by Frank Osbaldistone in Glasgow.—Sir W. Scott, _Rob Roy_ (time, George I.). =Fog= (_Amos_). Dreamy fisherman, hunter and wrecker, builder and owner of _Castle Nowhere_, in Constance Fennimore Woolson’s tale of that name. =Foible=, the intriguing lady’s maid of Lady Wishfort, and married to Waitwell (lackey of Edward Mirabell). She interlards her remarks with “says he,” “he says, says he,” “she says, says she,” etc.—W. Congreve, _The Way of the World_ (1700). =Foi´gard= (_Father_), one of a gang of thieves. He pretends to be a French priest, but “his French shows him to be English, and his English shows him to be Irish.”—Farquhar, _The Beaux’ Stratagem_ (1705). =Folair=´ (2 _syl._), a pantomimist at the Portsmouth Theatre, under the management of Mr. Vincent Crummles.—C. Dickens, _Nicholas Nickleby_ (1838).