What is a little particle of lighted or incandescent matter, darted from a fire; a flash. With flakes of ruddy fire. Somerville called?
flake — A little particle of lighted or incandescent matter, darted from a fire; a flash. With flakes of ruddy fire. Somerville. (Webster's 1913.)
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- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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