See also FLICK sb. [Of unknown origin: possibly connected with FLY v.] The fur of various quadrupeds; the down of a beaver.

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1666.  Dryden, Ann. Mirab., cxxxii.

        With his loll’d tongue he faintly licks his Prey,
His warm breath blows her flix up as she lies;
She, trembling, creeps upon the ground away,
And looks back to him with beseeching eyes.

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1757.  Dyer, Fleece (1807), 80.

                    The beaver’s flix
Gives kindliest warmth to weak enervate limbs,
When the pale blood slow rises through the veins.

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1818.  Milman, Samor, IX. 441.

        And here the gray flix of the wolf, here black
Lay feathers of the obscene raven’s wing,
Shewing, where they had marr’d the fruitless toil.

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  transf.  1864.  Browning, Dram. Pers., Gold Hair, iv.

        Hair, such a wonder of flix and floss,
  Freshness and fragrance—floods of it, too!
Gold, did I say? Nay, gold ’s mere dross.

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