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Flowing tendency or quality; fluency. [R.] W. Nichols.

See 1st Fluke.

p. p. of Fly; -- often used with the auxiliary verb to be; as, the birds are flown.

fly does on meat; to cause to be maggoty; hence, to taint or contaminate, as if with flyblows. Bp. Srillingfleet.

Tainted or contaminated with flyblows; damaged; foul. Wherever flyblown reputations were assembled. Thackeray.

o with (a leader, guide, etc.); to accompany; to attend. It waves me forth again; I'll follow it. Shak.

1. One who follows; a pursuer; an attendant; a disciple; a dependent associate; a retainer.

One's followers, adherents, or dependents, collectively. Macaulay.

See Advancing-edge, above.

See Advancing-surface, above.

To flow before. [Obs.]

To make slow; to hinder; to obstruct. [Obs.] See Forslow, v. t. No stream, no wood, no mountain could foreslow Their hasty pace. Fairfax.

To delay; to hinder; to neglect; to put off. [Obs.] Bacon.

Fully expanded, as a blossom; as, a full-bloun rose. Denham.

To put a furbelow on; to ornament.

To fright or terrify. See Gally, v. t. [Obs.] Shak.

A small horse of a breed raised at Galloway, Scotland; -- called also garran, and garron.

A heavy-armed foot soldier from Ireland and the Western Isles in the time of Edward Shak.

am on the top; also, a like frame for suspending anything. So they hanged Haman on the gallows. Esther vii. 10. If I hang, I'll make a fat pair of gallows. Shak. O, there were desolation of gaolers and gallowses Shak.

The common English milkwort (Polygala vulgaris), so called from blossoming in gang week. Dr. Prior.