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

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.
      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
see also:
flowed flowing flood 

[2] : 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
see also:
flowing battery flowing furnace flowing sheet 

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

flowing \flow"ing\,
   a.  n. from flow, v. i.  t.
   1913 webster
see also:
flow 

[4] : 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
see also:
fluent fluid liquid smooth artesian subartesian 
streaming flow 

[5] : 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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