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Flowing back; returning; ebbing. Cowper. And refluent through the pass of fear The battle's tide was poured. Sir W. Scott.

Refluent. [Obs.]

Flowing with dew. [R.]

Running under or beneath. [R.]

Superfluity. [Obs.] Hammond.

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

Viewed apart from modifying influences or without comparison with other objects; actual; real; -- opposed to relative and comparative; as, absolute motion; absolute time or space.

, an access of territory. [In this sense accession is more generally used.] I, from the influence of thy looks, receive Access in every virtue. Milton.

Open to the influence of; -- with to. "Minds accessible to reason." Macaulay.

cuted with care; careful. [Obs.] Those conceive the celestial bodies have more accurate influences upon these things below. Bacon.

e of Latin and Greek nouns) which expresses the immediate object on which the action or influence of a transitive verb terminates, or the immediate object of motion or tendency to, expressed by a preposition. It corresponds to the objective case in English.

A limpid, colorless, inflammable liquid from the slow oxidation of alcohol under the influence of platinum black.

To put into action or motion; to move or incite to action; to influence actively; to move as motives do; -- more commonly used of persons. Wings, which others were contriving to actuate by the perpetual motion. Johnson. Men of the greatest abilities are most fired with ambition; and, on the contrary, mean and narrow mi…

To influence or move, as the feelings or passions; to touch. A consideration of the rationale of our passions seems to me very necessary for all who would affect them upon solid and pure principles.

According to the direction and influence of; in proportion to; befitting. [Archaic] He takes greatness of kingdoms according to bulk and currency, and not after their intrinsic value. Bacon. After all, when everything has been considered; upon the whole. -- After (with the same noun preceding and following), as, wave…

That which surrounds and influences. The keen, the wholesome air of poverty. Wordsworth.

Saturation with alcohol; putting the animal system under the influence of alcoholic liquor.

The faculty supposed to influence sexual desire; propensity to love. Combe.

ia creeper. -- American Party (U. S. Politics), a party, about 1854, which opposed the influence of foreign-born citizens, and those supposed to owe allegiance to a foreign power. -- Native american Party (U. S. Politics), a party of principles similar to those of the American party. It arose about 1843, but soon die…

To rise, reach, or extend in effect, substance, or influence; to be equivalent; to come practically (to); as, the testimony amounts to very little.