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OUTFLOW n. 2 definitions
A flowing out; efflux.
OVERFLOAT v.
To overflow. [R.] Dryden.
OVERFLOURISH v. 2 definitions
To make excessive display or flourish of. Collier.
OVERFLOW v. 7 definitions
To flow over; to cover woth, or as with, water or other fluid; to spread over; to inundate; to overwhelm. The northern nations overflowed all Christendom. Spenser.
OVERFLOWING n.
An overflow; that which overflows; exuberance; copiousness. He was ready to bestow the overflowings of his full mind on anybody who would start a subject. Macaulay.
OVERFLOWINGLY adv.
In great abundance; exuberantly. Boyle.
PASSIFLORA n.
A genus of plants, including the passion flower. It is the type of the order Passifloreæ, which includes about nineteen genera and two hundred and fifty species.
PRAEFLORATION n.
Same as Prefloration. Gray.
PREFLORATION n.
Æstivation.
RADICIFLOROUS a.
Rhizanthous.
RAMIFLOROUS a.
Flowering on the branches.
RED DOG FLOUR; RED-DOG FLOUR n.
The lowest grade of flour in milling. It is dark and of little expansive power, is secured largely from the germ or embryo and adjacent parts, and contains a relatively high percentage of protein. It is chiefly useful as feed for farm animals.
REFLOAT n.
Reflux; ebb. [Obs.] Bacon.
REFLORESCENCE n.
A blossoming anew of a plant after it has apparently ceased blossoming for the season.
REFLOURISH v.
To flourish again.
REFLOW v.
To flow back; to ebb.
REFLOWER v.
To flower, or cause to flower, again. Sylvester.
SAFFLOW n.
The safflower. [Obs.]
SAFFLOWER n. 3 definitions
An annual composite plant (Carthamus tinctorius), the flowers of which are used as a dyestuff and in making rouge; bastard, or false, saffron.
SEA FLOWER n.
A sea anemone, or any related anthozoan.
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