in the cod-fishery, a sort of scaffold or platform, made of hurdles, and supported by stanchions, and used for drying cod-fish in Newfoundland. These flakes are usually placed near the shores of fishing-harbours.

in gardening, a name given by the florists to a sort of carnations which are of two colours only, and have very large stripes, all of them going quite through the leaves.

White Flake, in painting, is lead corroded by means of the pressing of grapes, or a ceruse prepared by the acid of grapes. It is brought here from Italy; and far surpasses, both with regard to the purity of its whiteness and the certainty of its standing, all the ceruses or white lead made with us in common. It is used in oil and varnish painting for all purposes where a very clean white is required. The white flake should be procured in lumps as it is brought over, and levigated by those who use it; because that which the colourmen sell in a prepared state is levigated and mixed up with starch, and often with white lead, and worse preparations.