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Sloping, with reference to a line or surface; declivous; inclined; not level. Since the floods demand, For their descent, a prone and sinking land. Blackmore.

To roll back, as a wave or flood; to be sent or driven back; to flow back, as a consequence or effect; to conduce; to contribute; to result. The evil, soon Driven back, redounded as a flood on those From whom it sprung. Milton. The honor done to our religion ultimately redounds to God, the author of it. Rogers. both .…

Consisting of a reed or reeds. Through reeden pipes convey the golden flood. Dryden.

To swallow again; to swallow back. Tides at highest mark regorge the flood. DRyden.

A hollow cut or channel for quiding anything; as, the reigle of a side post for a flood gate. Carew.

in murmurs. The trembling trees, in every plain and wood, Her fate remurmur to the silver flood. Pope.

Furnishing or serving as a retreat. [R.] "Our retreatful flood." Chapman.

orward with an easy motion, as of rolling; as, a river rolls its waters to the ocean. The flood of Catholic reaction was rolled over Europe. J. A. Symonds.

Marches flooded by the tide. [Prov. Eng.] Above the salt, Below the salt, phrases which have survived the old custom, in the houses of people of rank, of placing a large saltcellar near the middle of a long table, the places above which were assigned to the guests of distinction, and those below to dependents, inferior…

g amphipod crustacean; a beach flea, or orchestian. See Beach flea, under Beach. -- Sand flood, a vast body of sand borne along by the wind. James Bruce. -- Sand fluke. (Zoöl.) (a) The sandnecker. (b) The European smooth dab (Pleuronectes microcephalus); -- called also kitt, marysole, smear dab, town dab. -- Sand fl…

to undermine; to destroy the foundation of. Nor safe their dwellings were, for sapped by floods, Their houses fell upon their household gods. Dryden.

To take out or up with, a scoop; to lade out. He scooped the water from the crystal flood. Dryden.

virtue. Go, if your ancient, but ignoble blood Has crept through soundrels ever since the flood. Pope.

To taste the liquor of; to drink out of. [Poetic] They skim the floods, and sip the purple flowers. Dryden.

or gate, as in a mill stream, for stopping or regulating the flow; also, a water gate of flood gate.

poduran (Achorutes nivicola) often found in winter on the snow in vast numbers. -- Snow flood, a flood from melted snow. -- Snow flower (Bot.), the fringe tree. -- Snow fly, or Snow insect (Zoöl.), any one of several species of neuropterous insects of the genus Boreus. The male has rudimentary wings; the female is…

A river flood; an overflow or inundation. Burns. Gareth in a showerful spring Stared at the spate. Tennyson.

A flood gate by which water is accumulated, for floating a boat over a shallow part of a stream by its release. Knight.

or check the flow of, as a current. "An argosy to stem the waves." Shak. [They] stem the flood with their erected breasts. Denham. Stemmed the wild torrent of a barbarous age. Pope.

To cover or overflow with water; to inundate; to flood; to drown. I would thou didst, So half my Egypt were submerged. Shak.