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A great flow of water; a body of moving water; 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.

king, the others flowing off in a film or slime on the surface, though, perhaps, having a greater specific gravity than those that sink.

To move about briskly, irregularly, or with great bustle and show, without much result. No rag, no scrap, of all the beau, or wit, That once so fluttered, and that once so writ. Pope.

of a flowing stream; constant succession; change. By the perpetual flux of the liquids, a great part of them is thrown out of the body. Arbuthnot. Her image has escaped the flux of things, And that same infant beauty that she wore Is fixed upon her now forevermore. Trench. Languages, like our bodies, are in a continual…

A familiar spirit; a witch's attendant. [Obs.] A trifling fly, none of your great familiars. B. Jonson.

The hair grass (Agrostis scabra). So called from its light panicle, which is blown to great distances by the wind.

Anything that is scattered abroad in great numbers as a theatrical programme, an advertising leaf, etc.

d on her than she upon her love. Shak. You are as fond of grief as of your child. Shak. A great traveler, and fond of telling his adventures. Irving.

hoar. Fairfax. And Heaven defend your good souls, that you think I will your serious and great business scant, For she with me. Shak.

Done or produced with force or great labor, or by extraordinary exertion; hurried; strained; produced by unnatural effort or pressure; as, a forced style; a forced laugh. Forced draught. See under Draught. -- Forced march (Mil.), a march of one or more days made with all possible speed. -- For"ced*ly, adv. -- For"ce…

To feel beforehand; to have a presentiment of. [Obs.] As when, with unwieldy waves, the great sea forefeels winds. Chapman.

usually introduced from without. -- Foreign office, that department of the government of Great Britain which has charge British interests in foreign countries.

a stranger to my thoughts. Denham. Nor could the majesty of the English crown appear in a greater luster, either to foreigners or subjects. Swift.

To provide. [Obs.] Great shoals of people, which go on to populate, without foreseeing means of life. Bacon.

Excessively alarmed; in great fear. [Obs.] "Forfered of his death." Chaucer.

act of beating or working iron or steel; the manufacture of metalic bodies. [Obs.] In the greater bodies the forge was easy. Bacon. American forge, a forge for the direct production of wrought iron, differing from the old Catalan forge mainly in using finely crushed ore and working continuously. Raymond. -- Catalan fo…

r without reservation; to resign. To them that list the world's gay shows I leave, And to great ones such folly do forgive. Spenser.

The European forked hake or hake's-dame (Phycis blennoides); -- also called great forked beard.

An advanced stage of progress or of preparation; advancement; as, his measures were in great forwardness. Robertson.

A pit, groove, cavity, or depression, of greater or less depth; as, the temporal fossa on the side of the skull; the nasal fossæ containing the nostrils in most birds.