a. [f. FLAT a. + -ISH.] Somewhat flat.
1611. Speed, Theat. Gt. Brit., II. xi. § 4. The leanenesse of the soile (where the hils settle any thing flattish) hath beene now a good while begun to bee ouercome by the diligent paines and carefull industrie of the husbandmen.
1713. Derham, Phys. Theol., IV. xi. 191, note. These Worms are small and black, lodging inn a greyish Shell; that they have large flattish Heads, a large Mouth, with four black Jaws, &c.
1840. Evid. Hull Docks Com., 9. It is a flattish shore?—Yes.
1877. J. D. Chambers, Divine Worship, 253. The Chalices of the thirteenth century and subsequently were round and wide-mouthed and flattish, on an elevated stem with an extended foot of nearly such a form as has been revived in the present day.
