▪ I. flix
(flɪks)
See also flick n.
[Of unknown origin: possibly connected with fly v.]
The fur of various quadrupeds; the down of a beaver.
| 1666 Dryden Ann. Mirab. cxxxii, His warm breath blows her flix up as she lies. 1757 Dyer Fleece (1807) 80 The beaver's flix Gives kindliest warmth to weak enervate limbs. 1818 Milman Samor ix. 441 The gray flix of the wolf. |
| transf. 1864 Browning Dram. Pers., Gold Hair iv, Hair, such a wonder of flix and floss. |
▪ II. flix
obs. form of flux.