Sc. Also flaughin, flauchin. [Cognate with next; the precise formation is obscure.] A flake of fire or snow.
1649. Visct. Kenmure, Sp., in Select Biog. (1845), I. 401. The sparks and flaughens of this love shall fly up and down this bed so long as I lie into it.
1811. A. Scott, Poems, 43.
| His locks seem’d white as new fa’n snaw, | |
| That, fleecy pure, in flaughins fa.’ |
