flow \flow\ fl=o, v. i. imp.  p. p. flowed fl=od; p.
   pr.  vb. n. flowing. as. fl=owan; akin to d. vloeijen,
   ohg. flawen to wash, icel. fl=oa to deluge, gr. plw`ein to
   float, sail, and prob. ultimately to e. float, fleet.
   root80. 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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see also:
flowed flowing flood