LekhoriLekhoricomparative form of flat: more flat
To compliment someone, often (but not necessarily) insincerely and sometimes to win favour.
A man that flattereth his neighbour spreadeth a net for his feet.
A type of set tool used by blacksmiths.
A flat-faced fulling hammer.
Someone who lives in a rented flat.
*From Middle English flatteren, flateren (“to flutter, float, fawn over”), probably a conflation of Old English floterian, flotorian (“to flutter, float, be disquieted”), from Proto-Germanic *flutrōną...
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To enhance or gratify someone's vanity by praising them.
To portray someone to advantage.
Her portrait flatters her.