FLOOD

See DELUGE.

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Flood. Flood
An event recorded in Gen. 7 and 8. (See DELUGE.) In Josh. 24:2, 3, 14, 15, the word “flood” (R.V., “river”) means the river Euphrates. In Ps. 66:6, this word refers to the river Jordan.

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FLOOD. → (The deluge) → Foretold Ge 6:13,17 → History of Ge 6; 7; 8 → References to Job 22:16; Ps 90:5; Mt 24:38; Lu 17:26,27; Heb 11:7; 1Pe 3:20; 2Pe 2:5 → The promise that it should not recur Ge 8:20,21; Isa 54:9 → See METEOROLOGY

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flood. Flood, [flud] n. flow of tide, inundation

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Flood (?), n. [[OE. flod a flowing, stream, flood, AS. flōd; akin to D. vloed, OS. flōd, OHG. fluot, G. flut, Icel. flōð, Sw. & Dan. flod, Goth. flōdus; from the root of E. flow. √80. See Flow, v. i.]] 1. 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.
A covenant never to destroy The earth again by flood. Milton. 2. 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.
There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Shak. 3. 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.
4. 4. Menstrual disharge; menses. Harvey.
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.