2. To render dull, insipid, or spiritless; to depress.
Passions are allayed, appetites are flatted.
--Barrow.
3. To depress in tone, as a musical note; especially, to
lower in pitch by half a tone.
2. A mode of painting,in which the paint, being mixed with
turpentine, leaves the work without gloss. --Gwilt.
3. A method of preserving gilding unburnished, by touching
with size. --Knolles.
4. The process of forming metal into sheets by passing it
between rolls.
{Flatting coat}, a coat of paint so put on as to have no
gloss.
{Flatting furnace}. Same as {flattening oven}, under
{Flatten}.
{Flatting mill}.
(a) A rolling mill producing sheet metal; esp., in mints,
the ribbon from which the planchets are punched.
(b) A mill in which grains of metal are flatted by steel
rolls, and reduced to metallic dust, used for purposes
of ornamentation.