| Flow |
|
imp. sing. of Fly, v. i. |
| Flow |
v. i. |
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. |
| Flow |
v. i. |
To become liquid; to melt. |
| Flow |
v. i. |
To proceed; to issue forth; as, wealth flows from industry and economy. |
| Flow |
v. i. |
To glide along smoothly, without harshness or asperties; as, a flowing period; flowing numbers; to sound smoothly to the ear; to be uttered easily. |
| Flow |
v. i. |
To have or be in abundance; to abound; to full, so as to run or flow over; to be copious. |
| Flow |
v. i. |
To hang loose and waving; as, a flowing mantle; flowing locks. |
| Flow |
v. i. |
To rise, as the tide;
opposed to ebb; as, the tide flows twice in twenty-four hours. |
| Flow |
v. i. |
To discharge blood in excess from the uterus. |
| Flow |
v. t. |
To cover with water or other liquid; to overflow; to inundate; to flood. |
| Flow |
v. t. |
To cover with varnish. |
| Flow |
n. |
A stream of water or other fluid; a current; as, a flow of water; a flow of blood. |
| Flow |
n. |
A continuous movement of something abundant; as, a flow of words. |
| Flow |
n. |
Any gentle, gradual movement or procedure of thought, diction, music, or the like, resembling the quiet, steady movement of a river; a stream. |
| Flow |
n. |
The tidal setting in of the water from the ocean to the shore. See Ebb and flow, under Ebb. |
| Flow |
n. |
A low-lying piece of watery land;
called also flow moss and flow bog. |
| Flowage |
n. |
An overflowing with water; also, the water which thus overflows. |
| Flowed |
imp. & p. p. |
of Flow |
| Flowen |
|
imp. pl. of Fly, v. i. |
| Flower |
n. |
In the popular sense, the bloom or blossom of a plant; the showy portion, usually of a different color, shape, and texture from the foliage. |
| Flower |
n. |
That part of a plant destined to produce seed, and hence including one or both of the sexual organs; an organ or combination of the organs of reproduction, whether inclosed by a circle of foliar parts or not. A complete flower consists of two essential parts, the stamens and the pistil, and two floral envelopes, the corolla and callyx. In mosses the flowers consist of a few special leaves surrounding or subtending organs called archegonia. See Blossom, and Corolla. |
| Flower |
n. |
The fairest, freshest, and choicest part of anything; as, the flower of an army, or of a family; the state or time of freshness and bloom; as, the flower of life, that is, youth. |
| Flower |
n. |
Grain pulverized; meal; flour. |
| Flower |
n. |
A substance in the form of a powder, especially when condensed from sublimation; as, the flowers of sulphur. |
| Flower |
n. |
A figure of speech; an ornament of style. |
| Flower |
n. |
Ornamental type used chiefly for borders around pages, cards, etc. |
| Flower |
n. |
Menstrual discharges. |
| Flower |
v. i. |
To blossom; to bloom; to expand the petals, as a plant; to produce flowers; as, this plant flowers in June. |
| Flower |
v. i. |
To come into the finest or fairest condition. |
| Flower |
v. i. |
To froth; to ferment gently, as new beer. |
| Flower |
v. i. |
To come off as flowers by sublimation. |
| Flower |
v. t. |
To embellish with flowers; to adorn with imitated flowers; as, flowered silk. |
| Flower State |
|
Florida;
a nickname, alluding to sense of L. floridus, from florida flowery. See Florid. |
| Flower-de-luce |
n. |
A genus of perennial herbs (Iris) with swordlike leaves and large three-petaled flowers often of very gay colors, but probably white in the plant first chosen for the royal French emblem. |
| Flower-fence |
n. |
A tropical leguminous bush (Poinciana, / Caesalpinia, pulcherrima) with prickly branches, and showy yellow or red flowers;
so named from its having been sometimes used for hedges in the West Indies. |
| Flower-gentle |
n. |
A species of amaranth (Amarantus melancholicus). |
| Flowerage |
n. |
State of flowers; flowers, collectively or in general. |
| Flowered |
imp. & p. p. |
of Flower |
| Flowerer |
n. |
A plant which flowers or blossoms. |
| Floweret |
n. |
A small flower; a floret. |
| Flowerful |
a. |
Abounding with flowers. |
| Floweriness |
n. |
The state of being flowery. |
| Flowering |
p. pr. & vb. n. |
of Flower |
| Flowering |
a. |
Having conspicuous flowers;
used as an epithet with many names of plants; as, flowering ash; flowering dogwood; flowering almond, etc. |
| Flowering |
n. |
The act of blossoming, or the season when plants blossom; florification. |
| Flowering |
n. |
The act of adorning with flowers. |
| Flowerless |
a. |
Having no flowers. |
| Flowerlessness |
n. |
State of being without flowers. |
| Flowerpot |
n. |
A vessel, commonly or earthenware, for earth in which plants are grown. |
| Flowery |
a. |
Full of flowers; abounding with blossoms. |
| Flowery |
a. |
Highly embellished with figurative language; florid; as, a flowery style. |
| Flowery-kirtled |
a. |
Dressed with garlands of flowers. |
| Flowing |
p. pr. & vb. n. |
of Flow |
| Flowing |
a. |
That flows or for flowing (in various sense of the verb); gliding along smoothly; copious. |
| Flowing |
|
a. & n. from Flow, v. i. & t. |
| Flowingly |
adv. |
In a flowing manner. |
| Flowingness |
n. |
Flowing tendency or quality; fluency. |
| Flowk |
n. |
See 1st Fluke. |
| Flown |
|
p. p. of Fly;
often used with the auxiliary verb to be; as, the birds are flown. |
| Flown |
a. |
Flushed, inflated. |
| Flown |
p. p. |
of Fly |
