FLOW (2)

flow (2). Flow, n. a rise of water, run, plenty, sudden plenty

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Flow (flō), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Flowed (flōd); p. pr. & vb. n. Flowing.] [[AS. flōwan; akin to D. vloeijen, OHG. flawen to wash, Icel. flōa to deluge, Gr. πλώειν to float, sail, and prob. ultimately to E. float, fleet. √80. Cf. Flood.]] 1. 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. 2. To become liquid; to melt.
The mountains flowed down at thy presence. Is. lxiv. 3. 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. 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. 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. 6. To hang loose and waving; as, a flowing mantle; flowing locks.
The imperial purple flowing in his train. A. Hamilton. 7. 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. 8. To discharge blood in excess from the uterus.