▪ I. ‖ fluce, floose, n.
(fluːs)
Also 6 fluss, 7 flus(e), 9– floos, fulus.
[Arab. fulūs, pl. of fals name of a small copper coin.]
An old Persian coin; a small coin of north Africa, Arabia, India, and neighbouring countries.
| 1599 Hakluyt Voy. II. 272 A sort of flusses of copper. 1625 in W. Foster Eng. Factories India (1909) III. 71 There money goeth by the caffala, of which 9½ maketh a doller and 60 fluse to a caffala. 1638 Sir T. Herbert Trav. (ed. 2) 243 Cozbeg one halfe penny; Fluces are ten to a Cozbeg. 1698 Fryer Acc. E. India & P. 210, 5 Fluce is 1 Parrow. 1858 Simmonds Dict. Trade, Floose, the tenth part of a danim, a petty money of Bussorah and other parts of Arabia. 1877 H. M. Elliot's Hist. India VII. 345 They [sc. the Portuguese] also use bits of copper which they call buzurg, and four of these buzurgs pass for a ful{uacu}s. 1906 Daily Chron. 2 May 7/6 To-day a well-dressed man, who sees a European passing in the street, extends his hand, and mutters something about ‘flus’. 1907 Daily Mail 18 Jan. 6/4 Often have I bestowed upon him a floos for bread. |
▪ II. † fluce, v. Obs. rare.
intr. ? To flounce, plunge.
| 1627 Drayton Moone-Calfe 1352 They [cattle]..backward fluce..As though the Deuill in their heeles had bin. |