Any thing broad and limber that hangs loose, or is easily moved. A cartilaginous flap on the opening of the larynx. We say, the flap of a garment, the flap of the ear, the flap of a hat.

The motion of any thing broad and loose, or a stroke with it.

The flaps, a disease in the lips of horses.

To beat with a flap. Yet let me flap this bug with gilded wings./ .

To move something broad; as, to flap the wings.

To let fall, as the brim of a hat.

To move as wings, or as something broad or loose.

To fall, as the brim of a hat, or other broad thing.