To encourage or cheer someone with (usually false) hope.
To compliment someone, often (but not necessarily) insincerely and sometimes to win favour.
To enhance someone's vanity by praising them.
To portray someone to advantage.
Someone who flattens, purposely or accidently. Also flattener.
Someone who lives in a rented flat.
A type of set tool used by blacksmiths.
A flat-faced fulling hammer.
A drawplate with a narrow, rectangular orifice, for drawing flat strips such as watch springs.
To yell at or berate.
To sexually penetrate in a rough and painful way.
To enlarge a hole, especially using a reamer; to bore a hole wider.
To shape or form, especially using a reamer.
To cream; mantle; foam; froth.
To remove (material) by reaming.
To remove burrs and debris from a freshly bored hole.
Cream; also, the creamlike froth on ale or other liquor; froth or foam in general.
A bundle, package, or quantity of paper, nowadays usually containing 500 sheets.
An abstract large amount of something.