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Flow (fl&ō;), obs. imp. sing. of Fly, v. i. Chaucer.
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Flow (fl&ō;), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Flowed (fl&ō;d); p. pr. & vb. n. Flowing.] [AS. fl&ō;wan; akin to D. vloeijen, OHG. flawen to wash, Icel. fl&ō;a to deluge, Gr. plw`ein 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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Flow, v. t. 1. To cover with water or other liquid; to overflow; to inundate; to flood.
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2. To cover with varnish.
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Flow, n. 1. A stream of water or other fluid; a current; as, a flow of water; a flow of blood.
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2. A continuous movement of something abundant; as, a flow of words.
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3. 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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4. The tidal setting in of the water from the ocean to the shore. See Ebb and flow, under Ebb.
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5. A low-lying piece of watery land; -- called also flow moss and flow bog. [Scot.] Jamieson.
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