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That which flows or issues from any body or substance; issue; efflux. Bright effluence of bright essence increate! Milton. And, as if the gloom of the earth and sky had been but the effluence of these two mortal hearts, it vanished with their sorrow. Hawthorne.

Effluence.

Flowing out; as, effluent beams. Parnell.

A grand piano or a harpsichord, both being wing-shaped.

A flowing in or upon; influx. [Obs.] God hath his influence into the very essence of all things. Hooker.

One who, or that which, influences.

Tending toinfluence; influential.

Flowing in. "With influent tide." Cowper. "Influent odors." Mrs. Browning.

Exerting or possessing influence or power; potent; efficacious; effective; strong; having authority or ascendency; as, an influential man, station, argument, etc. A very influential Gascon prefix. Earle.

In an influential manner.

An epidemic affection characterized by acute nasal catarrh, or by inflammation of the throat or the bronchi, and usually accompanied by fever.

Flowing between or among; intervening. Boyle.

A flow of sweetness, or a sweet, smooth flow.

Flowing as with honey; smooth; mellifluous.

In a mellifluent manner.

Having many flues; as, a multiflue boiler. See Boiler.

To influence in an excessive degree; to have undue influence over.

Quality of being profluent; course. [R.] Sir H. Wotton.

Flowing forward, [R.] "In the profluent stream." Milton.

The quality of being refluent; a flowing back.