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Definitions for flowing:

The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :
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. [1913 Webster] 2. To become liquid; to melt. [1913 Webster] The mountains flowed down at thy presence. --Is. lxiv. 3. [1913 Webster] 3. To proceed; to issue forth; as, wealth flows from industry and economy. [1913 Webster] Those thousand decencies that daily flow From all her words and actions. --Milton. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] Virgil is sweet and flowingin his hexameters. --Dryden. [1913 Webster] 5. To have or be in abundance; to abound; to full, so as to run or flow over; to be copious. [1913 Webster] In that day . . . the hills shall flow with milk. --Joel iii. 18. [1913 Webster] The exhilaration of a night that needed not the influence of the flowing bowl. --Prof. Wilson. [1913 Webster] 6. To hang loose and waving; as, a flowing mantle; flowing locks. [1913 Webster] The imperial purple flowing in his train. --A. Hamilton. [1913 Webster] 7. To rise, as the tide; -- opposed to ebb; as, the tide flows twice in twenty-four hours. [1913 Webster] The river hath thrice flowed, no ebb between. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 8. To discharge blood in excess from the uterus. [1913 Webster]

The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :
Flowing \Flow"ing\, a. That flows or for flowing (in various sense of the verb); gliding along smoothly; copious. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster]

The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :
Flowing \Flow"ing\, a. & n. from Flow, v. i. & t. [1913 Webster]

WordNet (r) 2.0 :
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 :
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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