Flash v. t.
 1. To send out in flashes; to cause to burst forth with sudden flame or light.
 The chariot of paternal Deity,
 Flashing thick flames.   --Milton.
 2. To convey as by a flash; to light up, as by a sudden flame or light; as, to flash a message along the wires; to flash conviction on the mind.
 3. Glass Making To cover with a thin layer, as objects of glass with glass of a different color. See Flashing, n., 3 (b).
 4. To trick up in a showy manner.
    Limning and flashing it with various dyes.   --A. Brewer.
 5.  To strike and throw up large bodies of water from the surface; to splash. [Obs.]
    He rudely flashed the waves about.   --Spenser.
 Flashed glass. See Flashing, n., 3.