Obs. rare. [? var. of FLOTTEN.]
1. Of milk: ? Skimmed (in quot. app. stale, sour; perh. associated with FLAT a.).
1594. Plat, The Jewell House of Art and Nature, II. 13. Other do soke chippings, and other crusts of bread in broken beer or flatten milk, wherewith they do afterward feed their capons.
2. fig. = FLEETEN 2.
a. 1615. Fletcher, Hum. Lieutenant, III. v.
| What a flatten face he has now! it takes, believe it: | |
| How like an ass he looks! |
