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Flow (flō), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Flowed (flōd); p. pr. & vb. n. Flowing.] [AS. flōwan; akin to D. vloeijen, OHG. flawen to wash, Icel. flōa to deluge, Gr. πλώειν to float, sail, and prob. ultimately to E. float, fleet. √80. Cf. Flood.]
1. To move with a continual change of place among the particles or parts, as a fluid; to change place or circulate, as a liquid; as, “rivers flow from springs and lakes; tears flow from the eyes.”
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2. To become liquid; to melt.
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The mountains flowed down at thy presence. Is. lxiv. 3.
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3. To proceed; to issue forth; as, “wealth flows from industry and economy”.
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Those thousand decencies that daily flow
From all her words and actions. Milton.
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4. To glide along smoothly, without harshness or asperties; as, “a flowing period; flowing numbers”; to sound smoothly to the ear; to be uttered easily.
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Virgil is sweet and flowingin his hexameters. Dryden.
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5. To have or be in abundance; to abound; to full, so as to run or flow over; to be copious.
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In that day . . . the hills shall flow with milk. Joel iii. 18.
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The exhilaration of a night that needed not the influence of the flowing bowl. Prof. Wilson.
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6. To hang loose and waving; as, “a flowing mantle; flowing locks.”
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The imperial purple flowing in his train. A. Hamilton.
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7. To rise, as the tide; -- opposed to ebb; as, “the tide flows twice in twenty-four hours”.
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The river hath thrice flowed, no ebb between. Shak.
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8. To discharge blood in excess from the uterus.
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