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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Flow \Flow\ (fl[=o]), verb (used without an object) [imp. & p. p. {Flowed} (fl[=o]d); p. pr. & vb. n. {Flowing}.] [AS. fl[=o]wan; akin to D. vloeijen, OHG. flawen to wash, Icel. fl[=o]a to deluge, Gr. plw'ein to float, sail, and prob. ultimately to E. float, fleet. [root]80. 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.
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.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Flowing \Flow"ing\, adjective That flows or for flowing (in various sense of the verb); gliding along smoothly; copious.
{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.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Flowing \Flow"ing\, a. & n. from {Flow}, verb (used without an object) & t.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
flowing
adjective
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}]
noun: the motion characteristic of fluids (liquids or gases) [syn: {flow}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
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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