Noun

(en noun)

An external or internal rib or rim, used either to add strength or to hold something in place.

The projecting edge of a rigid or semi-rigid component.

(gaming) An ability in a role-playing game which is not commonly available, overpowered or arbitrarily imposed by the referees.

* 1998:' Mr MI Pennington, ''Can the Players be Trusted?'' on rec.games.frp.live-action [The] enduring problem with the Gathering is that [players can't affect anything that happens ... whatever they do, the LT just ' flange it back to the original plot line.

* 2007:' balor, ''Changing the metaphysics'' on Rule 7 [http://forums.rule7.co.uk/Topic28357-44-2.aspx] 'Oh look , the amulet of ' flange has been activated, this means all Paladins now only have one heal per day instead of two.'

A vulva.

* 2001:' tedfat, '''''Flange !!!! in alt.society.nottingham [http://groups.google.com/group/alt.society.nottingham/browse_thread/thread/7d1653d74a6ac61b/4fdf1b47e3e1bb70?lnk=st&q=%22her+flange%22&rnum=9&hl=en#4fdf1b47e3e1bb70]

I was in bed the other day with the missus and I asked to see her flange . Imagine my surprise when she got up went downstairs to my toolbox and brought me up a metal looking object called a flange!!!!! Needless to say when she asked to see my nuts the next time I obliged by doing exactly the same as her.

* 2003: Ray Gordon, Hot Sheets [http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN1562013920&id=c4hY8RgKlGgC&pg=PA61&lpg=PA61&dq=flange+fuck&sig=8rlmxhjFq0jxtxQ_cW333gA5u5Q&hl=en]

'God, she's got a tight flange !' the plumber gasped, splaying the girl's buttocks and focusing on her O-ring.

(rare, humorous) The collective noun for a group of baboons.

* 2006 , Rick Crosier - Getting Away with Murder

(I suspect they hired a flange of baboons to mind the house.)

Noun

(en noun)

A decorative border.

the fringe of a picture

A marginal or peripheral part.

* (and other bibliographic particulars) (Jeremy Taylor)

the confines of grace and the fringes of repentance

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Those members of a political party, or any social group, holding unorthodox views.

The periphery of a town or city.

He lives in the fringe of London.

That part of the hair that hangs down above the eyes; bangs.

Her fringe is so long it covers her eyes.

* 1915 , ":

In a few minutes Mrs. Athelny appeared. She had taken her hair out of the curling pins and now wore an elaborate fringe .

* 1981 , , HERmione , page 155,

Fayne in the photograph had a fringe , hair frizzed over hidden ears, sleeves over-ornate, the whole thing out of keeping.

* 2007 , , Sophie's Dilemma , page 16,

Ingeborg knew she wasn?t ready for fringes or short hair like some of the women she?d seen, and she hoped her daughter wasn?t either.

“No.” Astrid?s tone dismissed Sophie and the fringe as she galloped off to a new topic.

* 2009 , Geraldine Biddle-Perry, Sarah Cheang, Hair: Styling, Culture and Fashion , page 231,

Set against the seductive visual and textual imagery of these soft-focus fantasy worlds, the stock list details offer the reader a very real solution to achieving the look themselves, ‘Hair, including coloured fringes (obtainable from Joseph, £3.50) by Paul Nix’ (Baker 1972a: 68).

(label) A light or dark band formed by the diffraction of light.

interference fringe

Non-mainstream theatre.

The Fringe''; ''Edinburgh Fringe'''''; ''Adelaide '''Fringe

(label) The peristome or fringe-like appendage of the capsules of most mosses.