[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

flood \flood\ flu^d, n. oe. flod a flowing, stream, flood,
   as. fl=od; akin to d. vloed, os. fl=od, ohg. fluot, g.
   flut, icel. fl=oeth, sw.  dan. flod, goth. fl=odus;
   from the root of e. flow. root80. see flow, v. i.
   1. a great flow of water; a body of moving water; the flowing
      stream, as of a river; especially, a body of water,
      rising, swelling, and overflowing land not usually thus
      covered; a deluge; a freshet; an inundation.
      1913 webster

            a covenant never to destroy
            the earth again by flood.             --milton.
      1913 webster

   2. the flowing in of the tide; the semidiurnal swell or rise
      of water in the ocean; -- opposed to ebb; as, young
      flood; high flood.
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            there is a tide in the affairs of men,
            which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune.
                                                  --shak.
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   3. a great flow or stream of any fluid substance; as, a flood
      of light; a flood of lava; hence, a great quantity widely
      diffused; an overflowing; a superabundance; as, a flood of
      bank notes; a flood of paper currency.
      1913 webster

   4. menstrual disharge; menses. --harvey.
      1913 webster

   flood anchor naut., the anchor by which a ship is held
      while the tide is rising.

   flood fence, a fence so secured that it will not be swept
      away by a flood.

   flood gate, a gate for shutting out, admitting, or
      releasing, a body of water; a tide gate.

   flood mark, the mark or line to which the tide, or a flood,
      rises; high-water mark.

   flood tide, the rising tide; -- opposed to ebb tide.

   the flood, the deluge in the days of noah.
      1913 webster
see also:
flow ebb flood anchor flood fence flood gate flood mark 
flood tide ebb tide the flood 

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