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To cause to flow in drills or rills or by trickling; to drain by trickling; as, waters drilled through a sandy stratum. [R.] Thomson.

ht of drip (Law), an easement or servitude by which a man has the right to have the water flowing from his house fall on the land of his neighbor.

To slaver; to let spittle drop or flow from the mouth, like a child, idiot, or dotard.

tc., from physical inability or exhaustion, want of nourishment, or the like. "The purple flowers droop." "Above her drooped a lamp." Tennyson. I saw him ten days before he died, and observed he began very much to droop and languish. Swift.

Flowing sweetly. [R.]

hes (Bot.), a perennial American herb (Dicentra cucullaria), with peculiar double-spurred flowers. See Illust. of Dicentra. -- Dutchman's laudanum (Bot.), a West Indian passion flower (Passiflora Murucuja); also, its fruit. -- Dutchman's pipe (Bot.), an American twining shrub (Aristolochia Sipho). Its flowers have th…

tence on the earth; not heavenly or spiritual; carnal; worldly; as, earthly joys; earthly flowers; earthly praise. This earthly load Of death, called life. Milton. Whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things. Phil. iii. 19.

The reflux or flowing back of the tide; the return of the tidal wave toward the sea; -- opposed to flood; as, the boats will go out on the ebb. Thou shoreless flood which in thy ebb and flow Claspest the limits of morality! Shelley.

Without bracteoles, or little bracts; -- said of a pedicel or flower stalk.

Flowering, or state of flowering; the blooming of flowers; blowth.

A flowing out, or emanation.

Flowing out; as, effluent beams. Parnell.

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.

The act of flowing out; effusion.

A species of rose (Rosa Eglanteria), with fragrant foliage and flowers of various colors.

Each of two; the one and the other; both; -- formerly, also, each of any number. His flowing hair In curls on either cheek played. Milton. On either side . . . was there the tree of life. Rev. xxii. 2. The extreme right and left of either army never engaged. Jowett (Thucyd).

A genus of shrubs (Sambucus) having broad umbels of white flowers, and small black or red berries.

A large, coarse herb (Inula Helenium), with composite yellow flowers. The root, which has a pungent taste, is used as a tonic, and was formerly of much repute as a stomachic.

ldhood or early youth, was shown in the General's fondness for the sight and fragrance of flowers. Hawthorne.

ng the petals free, that is, entirely separate from each other; -- said of both plant and flower.