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flatting |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Flat \Flat\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Flatted}; p. pr & vb n. {Flatting}.] 1. To make flat; to flatten; to level. 2. To render dull, insipid, or spiritless; to depress. Passions are allayed, appetites are flatted. --Barrow. 3. To depress in tone, as a musical note; especially, to lower in pitch by half a tone. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Flatting \Flat"ting\, n. 1. The process or operation of making flat, as a cylinder of glass by opening it out 2. A mode of painting,in which the paint, being mixed with turpentine, leaves the work without gloss. --Gwilt. 3. A method of preserving gilding unburnished, by touching with size. --Knolles. 4. The process of forming metal into sheets by passing it between rolls. {Flatting coat}, a coat of paint so put on as to have no gloss. {Flatting furnace}. Same as {flattening oven}, under {Flatten}. {Flatting mill}. a A rolling mill producing sheet metal; esp., in mints, the ribbon from which the planchets are punched. b A mill in which grains of metal are flatted by steel rolls, and reduced to metallic dust, used for purposes of ornamentation.
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