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To become or grow green. Tennyson. By greening slope and singing flood. Whittier.

o, while she guzzles, chats the doctor's praise. Roscommon. To fat the guzzling hogs with floods of whey. Gay.

used in music. -- Half tide, the time or state of the tide equally distant from ebb and flood. -- Half time, half the ordinary time for work or attendance; as, the half-time system. -- Half tint (Fine Arts), a middle or intermediate tint, as in drawing or painting. See Demitint. -- Half truth, a statement only par…

A flood gate; a a sluice gate. Ainsworth.

Worked up, or swollen, to a high degree; as, a highwrought passion. "A high-wrought flood." Shak.

by intemperance. Jer. Taylor. Some, as thou sawest, by violent stroke shall die, By fire, flood, famine, by intemperance more In meats and drinks. Milton.

To cover with a flood; to overflow; to deluge; to flood; as, the river inundated the town.

The act of inundating, or the state of being inundated; an overflow; a flood; a rising and spreading of water over grounds. With inundation wide the deluge reigns, Drowns the deep valleys, and o'erspreads the plains. Wilkie.

To sharpen; to make cold. [R.] Cold winter keens the brightening flood. Thomson.

, a man leaps over a fence, or leaps upon a horse. Bacon. Leap in with me into this angry flood. Shak.

Lent; used in, or suitable to, Lent; as, the Lenten season. She quenched her fury at the flood. And with a Lenten salad cooled her blood. Dryden.

To make lustrous. [R. & Poetic] Flooded and lustered with her loosened gold. Lowell.

Consisting of, or containing, milk. Pails high foaming with a milky flood. Pope.

To bewail audibly; to lament. Ye floods, ye woods, ye echoes, moan My dear Columbo, dead and gone. Prior.

An instrument for measuring the rise of water in the Nile during its periodical flood.

Resembling pearl or pearls; clear; pure; transparent; iridescent; as, the pearly dew or flood.

or abstract idea is represented as animated, or endowed with personality; prosopopas, the floods clap their hands. "Confusion heards his voice." Milton.

Being or happening after the flood in Noah's days.

One who lived after the flood.

To send forth as in a stream or a flood; to emit; to let escape freely or wholly. I . . . have poured out my soul before the Lord. 1 Sam. i. 15. Now will I shortly pour out my fury upon thee. Ezek. vii. 8. London doth pour out her citizens ! Shak. Wherefore did Nature pour her bounties forth With such a full and unwith…