Flow

Definition of Flow

Pronunciation: flō

imp. sing.	1.	imp. sing. of Fly, v. i.
v. i.	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. [imp. & p. p. Flowed (flōd); p. pr. & vb. n. Flowing.]
	2.	To become liquid; to melt. The mountains flowed down at thy presence. - Is. lxiv. 3.
	3.	To proceed; to issue forth; as, wealth flows from industry and economy. Those thousand decencies that daily flow From all her words and actions. - Milton.
	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. Virgil is sweet and flowingin his hexameters. - Dryden.
	5.	To have or be in abundance; to abound; to full, so as to run or flow over; to be copious. In that day . . . the hills shall flow with milk. - Joel iii. 18. The exhilaration of a night that needed not the influence of the flowing bowl. - Prof. Wilson.
	6.	To hang loose and waving; as, a flowing mantle; flowing locks. The imperial purple flowing in his train. - A. Hamilton.
	7.	To rise, as the tide; - opposed to ebb; as, the tide flows twice in twenty-four hours. The river hath thrice flowed, no ebb between. - Shak.
	8.	To discharge blood in excess from the uterus.
v. t.	1.	To cover with water or other liquid; to overflow; to inundate; to flood.
	2.	To cover with varnish.
n.	1.	A stream of water or other fluid; a current; as, a flow of water; a flow of blood.
	2.	A continuous movement of something abundant; as, a flow of words.
	3.	Any gentle, gradual movement or procedure of thought, diction, music, or the like, resembling the quiet, steady movement of a river; a stream. The feast of reason and the flow of soul. - Pope.
	4.	The tidal setting in of the water from the ocean to the shore. See Ebb and flow, under Ebb.
	5.	A low-lying piece of watery land; - called also flow moss and flow bog.

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