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Downward flow. [Obs.] Bacon.

A discharge or flowing of humors or fluid matter, as from the nose in catarrh; -- sometimes used synonymously with inflammation. Dunglison.

The act or process of flowing out, or issuing forth; effusion; outflow; as, the efflux of matter from an ulcer; the efflux of men's piety. It is then that the devout affections . . . are incessantly in efflux. I. Taylor.

That which flows out; effluvium; emanation. Some light effluxions from spirit to spirit. Bacon.

The act of flowing in; as, an influx of light.

A flowing in; infusion. [R.] Bacon.

Influential. [Obs.]

Having a tendency to flow in; having influence; influential. [R.] Holdsworth.

By influxion. [R.]

Overflow; exuberance. [R.]

Returning, or flowing back; reflex; as, reflux action.

Superabundance; superfluity; an overflowing. [R.] Shak.

A flowing through, across, or beyond. [R.]

A flowing to or towards; a concourse; an influx. The affluence of young nobles from hence into Spain. Wotton. There is an unusual affluence of strangers this year. Carlyle.

A tube through which is water is discharged; an efflux tube; as, the ajutage of a fountain.

A sudden, great, or irresistible descent or influx of anything.

oblong red berries are made into a preserve or sauce, and have been deemed efficacious in fluxes and fevers. The bark dyes a fine yellow, esp. the bark of the root. [Also spelt berberry.]

A white or gray crystalline salt, with a slight alkaline taste, used as a flux, in soldering metals, making enamels, fixing colors on porcelain, and as a soap. It occurs native in certain mineral springs, and is made from the boric acid of hot springs in Tuscany. It was originally obtained from a lake in Thibet, and wa…

The proportion of ore and flux to fuel, in the charge of a blast furnace. Raymond.

issues from the aorta just below the diaphragm; -- called also coeliac axis. -- Coeliac flux, Coeliac passion (Med.), a chronic flux or diarrhea of undigested food.