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To remove the epidermis of (a skin) with a concave knife, blunt in its middle part, -- as in making chamois leather.

To cover or deck with flowers. [Poetic] These odorous and enflowered fields. B. Jonson.

An umbelliferous Australian flower (Actinotus helianthi), often erroneously thought to be composite. The involucre looks as if cut out of white flannel.

To flow before. [Obs.]

The common English milkwort (Polygala vulgaris), so called from blossoming in gang week. Dr. Prior.

a roundish conical shape, purplish red color, and having a large core. [Written also gilliflower.] Clove gillflower, the clove pink. -- Marsh gillyflower, the ragged robin (Lychnis Flos-cuculi). -- Queen's, or Winter, gillyflower, damewort. -- Sea gillyflower, the thrift (Armeria vulgaris). -- Wall gillyflower, the…

Europæus), found in the mountainous parts of Europe, and producing handsome globe-shaped flowers.

Elevated; proud. "High-flown hopes." Denham.

To flow in. Wiseman.

To flow in. [R.] Holland.

A composite herb (Tragopogon pratensis), of the same genus as the salsify.

See Gillyflower.

In England, the hawthorn; in New England, the trailing arbutus (see Arbutus); also, the blossom of these plants.

A name of certain curious orchids which bear three kinds of flowers formerly referred to three genera, but now ascertained to be sexually different forms of the same genus (Catasetum tridentatum, etc.).

A kind of morning glory (Ipomoea Bona-nox) with large white flowers opening at night.

The goat's beard, whose flowers close at midday.

A flowing out; efflux.

To flow over; to cover woth, or as with, water or other fluid; to spread over; to inundate; to overwhelm. The northern nations overflowed all Christendom. Spenser.

An overflow; that which overflows; exuberance; copiousness. He was ready to bestow the overflowings of his full mind on anybody who would start a subject. Macaulay.

In great abundance; exuberantly. Boyle.