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Flowing or running across or through; as, a transfluent stream.

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

ce, to explain or recapitulate in other words. Translating into his own clear, pure, and flowing language, what he found in books well known to the world, but too bulky or too dry for boys and girls. Macaulay.

in a cross direction; to cross. The parts should be often traversed, or crossed, by the flowing of the folds. Dryden.

A stream or river flowing into a larger river or into a lake; an affluent.

A blowing apparatus, in which air, drawn into the upper part of a vertical tube through side holes by a stream of water within, is carried down with the water into a box or chamber below which it is led to a furnace. [Written also trompe, and trombe.]

The third day of the week, following Monday and preceding Wednesday.

of curved floats or buckets, against which the water acts by its impulse or reaction in flowing either outward from a central chamber, inward from an external casing, or from above downward, etc.; -- also called turbine wheel.

m side on top; as, to turn up the trump. (b) To bring from beneath to the surface, as in plowing, digging, etc. (c) To give an upward curve to; to tilt; as, to turn up the nose. -- To turn upon, to retort; to throw back; as, to turn the arguments of an opponent upon himself. -- To turn upside down, to confuse by putt…

The number next following eleven; the sum of ten and two, or of twice six; twelve units or objects; a dozen.

The number next following nineteen; the sum of twelve and eight, or twice ten; twenty units or objects; a score.

A current below the surface of water, sometimes flowing in a contrary direction to that on the surface. Totten.

other great supper, or undermeal, was made ready for them, coming home from ditching and plowing. Withals (1608). I think I am furnished with Cattern [Catharine] pears for one undermeal. B. Jonson. In a narrower limit than the forty years' undermeal of the seven sleepers. Nash.

To turn up; to direct upward; to throw up; as, to upturn the ground in plowing. "A sea of upturned faces." D. Webster. So scented the grim feature, and upturned His nostril wide into the murky air. Milton.

t (Med.), the process of inflating the middle ear by closing the mouth and nostrils, and blowing so as to puff out the cheeks.

wind veers to the west or north. "His veering gait." Wordsworth. And as he leads, the following navy veers. Dryden. an ordinary community which is hostile or friendly as passion or as interest may veer about. Burke. To veer and haul (Naut.), to vary the course or direction; -- said of the wind, which veers aft and hau…

A rolling of a body; a wallowing. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

or gross vice; to disport one's self in a beastly and unworthy manner. God sees a man wallowing in his native impurity. South.

Having a sensation of heat, esp. of gentle heat; glowing.

The glowing effect which arises from the use of warm colors; hence, any similar appearance or effect in a painting, or work of color.