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Low land overflowed, or covered wholly or partially with water, but producing sedge, coarse grasses, or other aquatic plants; boggy land; moor; marsh. 'Mid reedy fens wide spread. Wordsworth.

To flood; to overflow; to cover with water. Proud Pactolus floats the fruitful lands. Dryden.

er; the flowing stream, as of a river; especially, a body of water, rising, swelling, and overflowing land not usually thus covered; a deluge; a freshet; an inundation. A covenant never to destroy The earth again by flood. Milton.

The filling or covering with water or other fluid; overflow; inundation; the filling anything to excess.

To cover with water or other liquid; to overflow; to inundate; to flood.

An overflowing with water; also, the water which thus overflows.

To cause to be full; to flood; to overflow; to overwhelm with water; as, to flush the meadows; to flood for the purpose of cleaning; as, to flush a sewer.

A flood or overflowing of a stream caused by heavy rains or melted snow; a sudden inundation. Cracked the sky, as ice in rivers When the freshet is at highest. Longfellow.

Characterized by generosity; abundant; overflowing; as, a generous table. Swift.

und between hills, or along the banks of a stream, usually alluvial land, enriched by the overflowings of the river, or by fertilizing deposits of earth from the adjacent hills. Cf. Bottom, n., 7. [Local, U. S.] The woody intervale just beyond the marshy land. The Century.

Overflowing. [R.] Shenstone.

To cover with a flood; to overflow; to deluge; to flood; as, the river inundated the town.

The act of inundating, or the state of being inundated; an overflow; a flood; a rising and spreading of water over grounds. With inundation wide the deluge reigns, Drowns the deep valleys, and o'erspreads the plains. Wilkie.

An overflowing of land by river; an inundation; a freshet. Clarendon.

Laughingly gay; overflowing with good humor and good spirits; jovial; inclined to laughter or play ; sportive. They drank, and were merry with him. Gen. xliii. 34. I am never merry when I hear sweet music. Shak.

To swell beyond; to overflow. [Obs.] Hewyt.

To flow over the brim; to be so full as to overflow. [R.]

To overflow; to surcharge. [Obs.] J. Philips.

To overflow. [R.] Dryden.

Overflow; exuberance. [R.]