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 Definitions for Flowing: The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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Flow \Flow\ (fl[=o]), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Flowed (fl[=o]d); p.
pr. & vb. n. Flowing.] [AS. fl[=o]wan; akin to D. vloeijen,
OHG. flawen to wash, Icel. fl[=o]a to deluge, Gr. plw`ein to
float, sail, and prob. ultimately to E. float, fleet.
[root]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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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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Flowing \Flow"ing\, a.
That flows or for flowing (in various sense of the verb);
gliding along smoothly; copious.
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Flowing battery (Elec.), a battery which is kept constant
by the flowing of the exciting liquid through the cell or
cells. --Knight.
Flowing furnace, a furnace from which molten metal, can be
drawn, as through a tap hole; a foundry cupola.
Flowing sheet (Naut.), a sheet when eased off, or loosened
to the wind, as when the wind is abaft the beam. --Totten.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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Flowing \Flow"ing\,
a. & n. from Flow, v. i. & t.
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WordNet (r) 2.0
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flowing
adj 1: smooth and unconstrained in movement; "a long, smooth
stride"; "the fluid motion of a cat"; "the liquid
grace of a ballerina"; "liquid prose" [syn: fluent,
fluid, liquid, smooth]
2: (of water) rising to the surface under internal hydrostatic
pressure; "an artesian well"; "artesian pressure" [syn: artesian]
[ant: subartesian]
3: moving smoothly and continuously; "crowds flowing through
the canyons of the streets"; "fan streaming into the
concert hall" [syn: streaming]
4: (of liquids) moving freely; "a flowing brook" [syn: streaming]
n : the motion characteristic of fluids (liquids or gases) [syn:
flow]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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136 Moby Thesaurus words for "flowing":
affluent, ascending, autograph, autographic, axial, back,
back-flowing, backward, balanced, calligraphic, cascading,
chirographic, concinnate, concinnous, confluent, coursing, cursive,
dangling, decurrent, defluent, dependent, depending, descending,
diffluent, down-trending, downward, drifting, easy, effortless,
elegant, engrossed, euphonic, euphonical, euphonious, facile,
falling, falling loosely, fluent, fluid, fluidal, fluidic,
fluxible, fluxile, fluxional, fluxionary, fluxive, flying, going,
graceful, graphic, graphoanalytic, graphologic, graphometric,
gulfy, gushing, gyrational, gyratory, hanging, harmonious,
holograph, holographic, hung, in longhand, in shorthand,
in writing, inscribed, italic, italicized, juicy, liquid, liquidy,
longhand, manuscript, mazy, meandering, measured, mounting,
on paper, ordered, orderly, passing, penciled, pendent, pending,
pendulant, pendular, penduline, pendulous, penned, pensile,
pleasing, plunging, pouring, printed, profluent, progressive,
racing, reflowing, refluent, regressive, retrogressive, rising,
rotary, rotational, rotatory, running, runny, rushing, sappy,
scriptorial, scriptural, serpentine, shorthand, sideward, sinking,
sluggish, smooth, smooth-sounding, soaring, streaming,
stylographic, succulent, surging, surgy, suspended, sweet,
swinging, symmetrical, tidal, tripping, up-trending, upward,
vortical, watery, weeping, written
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