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Flowing with fire. [Obs.] Cockerman.

A flowing or entering in; -- opposed to emanation. [R.] Good.

A flowing in or upon; influx. [Obs.] God hath his influence into the very essence of all things. Hooker.

Flowing in. "With influent tide." Cowper. "Influent odors." Mrs. Browning.

The act of flowing in; as, an influx of light.

A flowing in; infusion. [R.] Bacon.

Winding, creeping, or flowing in, quietly or stealthily; suggesting; winning favor and confidence insensibly. Milton. His address was courteous, and even insinuating. Prescott.

The act or process of insinuating; a creeping, winding, or flowing in. By a soft insinuation mix'd With earth's large mass. Crashaw.

Flowing between or among; intervening. Boyle.

A flowing between; intervening water. [Obs.] Sir M. Hale.

A flowing between. [Obs.] Bailey.

between hills, or along the banks of a stream, usually alluvial land, enriched by the overflowings of the river, or by fertilizing deposits of earth from the adjacent hills. Cf. Bottom, n., 7. [Local, U. S.] The woody intervale just beyond the marshy land. The Century.

Overflowing. [R.] Shenstone.

To fill with an overflowing abundance or superfluity; as, the country was inundated with bills of credit.

An overspreading of any kind; overflowing or superfluous abundance; a flood; a great influx; as, an inundation of tourists. To stop the inundation of her tears. Shak.

The act of passing or flowing out; a moving out from any inclosed place; egress; as, the issue of water from a pipe, of blood from a wound, of air from a bellows, of people from a house.

of the equatorial current of the Pacific, washing the eastern coast of Formosa and thence flowing northeastward past Japan and merging into the easterly drift of the North Pacific; -- called also Kuro-Siwo, or Black Stream, in allusion to the deep blue of its water. It is similar in may ways to the Gulf Stream.…

An overflowing of land by river; an inundation; a freshet. Clarendon.

Flowing copiously. [Obs.]

a or cougar. -- Lion ant (Zoöl.), the ant-lion. -- Lion dog (Zoöl.), a fancy dog with a flowing mane, usually clipped to resemble a lion's mane. -- Lion lizard (Zoöl.), the basilisk. -- Lion's share, all, or nearly all; the best or largest part; -- from Æsop's fable of the lion hunting in company with certain small…