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The spread of a river into a sheet of water; a flooded fen. [Local, Eng.] Southey.

ing in a fluid; tending to rise or float; as, iron is buoyant in mercury. "Buoyant on the flood." Pope.

t than high; as, a cake of soap; an ague cake. Cakes of rusting ice come rolling down the flood. Dryden. Cake urchin (Zoöl), any species of flat sea urchins belonging to the Clypeastroidea. -- Oil cake the refuse of flax seed, cotton seed, or other vegetable substance from which oil has been expressed, compacted into…

[Poetic] Hath fed on pageants floating through the air Or calentures in depths of limpid flood. Wordsworth.

f quality of being calm; quietness; tranquillity; self-repose. The gentle calmness of the flood. Denham. Hes calmness was the repose of conscious power. E. Everett.

An extensive overflow or sweeping flood of water; a deluge.

To make a clamorous noise; to chafe. As doth a rock againts the chiding flood. Shak.

Clearness; brightness; splendor. Floods, in whose more than crystal clarity, Innumerable virgin graces row. Beaumont.

A sluice used in returning water to a channel after depositing its sediment on the flooded land. Knight.

to bound; to shut up; to inclose; to keep close. Now let not nature's hand Keep the wild flood confined! let order die! Shak. He is to confine himself to the compass of numbers and the slavery of rhyme. Dryden. To be confined, to be in childbed.

A breaking or bursting forth; a violent rush or flood of waters which breaks down opposing barriers, and hurls forward and disperses blocks of stone and other débris.

ve or low in tone; as, to deepen the tones of an organ. Deepens the murmur of the falling floods. Pope.

A washing away; an overflowing of the land by water; an inundation; a flood; specifically, The Deluge, the great flood in the days of Noah (Gen. vii.).

To dig; to open (the ground) as with a spade. Delve of convenient depth your thrashing flooDryden.

nge; to fall; to incline downward; -- the opposite of ascend. The rain descended, and the floods came. Matt. vii. 25. We will here descend to matters of later date. Fuller.

ate; to leave alone; to deprive of inhabitants; as, the earth was nearly desolated by the flood.

Of or pertaining to a flood or deluge, esp. to the great deluge in the days of Noah; diluvian.

To run as a flood. [Obs.] Sir E. Sandys.

ior parts of; to eviscerate. Soon after their death, they are disemboweled. Cook. Roaring floods and cataracts that sweep From disemboweled earth the virgin gold. Thomson.

rence; as, to distinguish sounds into high and low. Moses distinguished the causes of the flood into those that belong to the heavens, and those that belong to the earth. T. Burnet.