GNU Collaborative International Dictionary of English

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   Flow , obs. imp. sing. of Fly, v. i.
   Chaucer.
   
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   Flow , v. i. [imp. & p. p. Flowed ; 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.]
   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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   To become liquid; to melt.
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   The mountains flowed down at thy presence.
   Is. lxiv. 3.
   
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   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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   To glide along smoothly, without harshness or asperities; 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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   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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   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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   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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   To discharge blood in excess from the uterus.
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   Flow, v. t.
   To cover with water or other liquid; to overflow; to inundate; to flood.
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   To cover with varnish.
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   Flow, n.
   A stream of water or other fluid; a current; as, a flow of water; a flow of blood.
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   A continuous movement of something abundant; as, a flow of words.
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   Any gentle, gradual movement or procedure of thought, diction, music, or the like, resembling the quiet, steady movement of a river; a stream.
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   The feast of reason and the flow of soul.
   Pope.
   
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   The tidal setting in of the water from the ocean to the shore. See Ebb and flow, under Ebb.
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   A low-lying piece of watery land; -- called also flow moss and flow bog. [Scot.]
   Jamieson.
   
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