[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

flake \flake\, v. t. imp.  p. p. flaked; p. pr.  vb. n.
   flaking.
   to form into flakes. --pope.
   1913 webster
see also:
flaked flaking 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

flake \flake\, v. i.
   to separate in flakes; to peel or scale off.
   1913 webster

[3] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

flake \flake\ fl=ak, n. cf. icel. flakna to flake off,
   split, flagna to flake off, sw. flaga flaw, flake, flake
   plate, dan. flage snowflake. cf. flag a flat stone.
   1. a loose filmy mass or a thin chiplike layer of anything; a
      film; flock; lamina; layer; scale; as, a flake of snow,
      tallow, or fish. "lottle flakes of scurf." --addison.
      1913 webster

            great flakes of ice encompassing our boat. --evelyn.
      1913 webster

   2. a little particle of lighted or incandescent matter,
      darted from a fire; a flash.
      1913 webster

            with flakes of ruddy fire.            --somerville.
      1913 webster

   3. bot. a sort of carnation with only two colors in the
      flower, the petals having large stripes.
      1913 webster

   4. a person who behaves strangely; a flaky2 person.
      colloq.
      pjc

   flake knife archaeol., a cutting instrument used by
      savage tribes, made of a flake or chip of hard stone.
      --tylor.

   flake stand, the cooling tub or vessel of a still worm.
      --knight.

   flake white. paint.
      a the purest white lead, in the form of flakes or
          scales.
      b the trisnitrate of bismuth. --ure.
          1913 webster
see also:
flag flake knife flake stand flake white 

[4] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

flake \flake\ fl=ak, n. cf. icel. flaki, fleki, dan. flage,
   d. vlaak.
   1. a paling; a hurdle. prov. eng.
      1913 webster

   2. a platform of hurdles, or small sticks made fast or
      interwoven, supported by stanchions, for drying codfish
      and other things.
      1913 webster

            you shall also, after they be ripe, neither suffer
            them to have straw nor fern under them, but lay them
            either upon some smooth table, boards, or flakes of
            wands, and they will last the longer. --english
                                                  husbandman.
      1913 webster

   3. naut. a small stage hung over a vessel's side, for
      workmen to stand on in calking, etc.
      1913 webster

[5] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

flake \flake\, n. etym. uncertain; cf. 1st fake.
   a flat layer, or fake, of a coiled cable.

         flake after flake ran out of the tubs, until we were
         compelled to hand the end of our line to the second
         mate.                                    --f. t.
                                                  bullen.
   webster 1913 suppl.
see also:
fake 

[6] : WordNet (r) 2.0

flake
     n 1: a crystal of snow syn: snowflake
     2: a person with an unusual or odd personality syn: eccentric,
         eccentric person, oddball, geek
     3: a small fragment of something broken off from the whole; "a
        bit of rock caught him in the eye" syn: bit, chip, fleck,
         scrap
     v 1: form into flakes; "the substances started to flake"
     2: cover with flakes or as if with flakes
     3: come off in flakes or thin small pieces; "the paint in my
        house is peeling off" syn: peel off, peel, flake off
see also:
snowflake eccentric eccentric person oddball geek bit 
chip fleck scrap peel off peel 
flake off 

[7] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

143 moby thesaurus words for "flake":
   aliene, arrange in layers, avalanche, band, bar, bedlamite,
   bespangle, bespeckle, bespot, bit, blizzard, blotch,
   borderline case, character, check, checker, chip, collapse,
   crackbrain, crackpot, crank, crystal, dandruff, dapple, delaminate,
   dement, demoniac, desquamate, dot, driven snow, eccentric,
   energumen, erratic, exfoliate, fanatic, flake off, fleck, floccule,
   flocculus, flock, flurry, fou, fragment, freak, freckle,
   granular snow, harlequin, idiot, igloo, iris, keel over, kook,
   lamina, laminate, lay down, lay up, layer, loon, loony, lunatic,
   maculate, madman, maniac, mantle of snow, marble, marbleize,
   meshuggenah, mogul, motley, mottle, noncompos, nonconformist, nut,
   oddball, paring, particle, pass out, pepper, phrenetic, piece,
   polychrome, polychromize, rainbow, raving lunatic, recluse, scale,
   scale off, scrap, screwball, scurf, shaving, sliver, slosh, slush,
   snow, snow banner, snow bed, snow blanket, snow blast, snow fence,
   snow flurry, snow roller, snow slush, snow squall, snow wreath,
   snow-crystal, snowball, snowbank, snowbridge, snowcap, snowdrift,
   snowfall, snowfield, snowflake, snowland, snowman, snowscape,
   snowshed, snowslide, snowslip, snowstorm, spangle, speck, speckle,
   splotch, spot, sprinkle, stigmatize, stipple, strange duck,
   stratify, streak, striate, stripe, stud, tattoo, tessellate, tuft,
   variegate, vein, wafer, weirdo, wet snow

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