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hing away; an overflowing of the land by water; an inundation; a flood; specifically, The Deluge, the great flood in the days of Noah (Gen. vii.).

Going before in time; prior; anterior; preceding; as, an event antecedent to the Deluge; an antecedent cause.

Before the flood, or Deluge, in Noah's time.

Of or relating to the period before the Deluge in Noah's time; hence, antiquated; as, an antediluvian vehicle. -- n.

The large, chestlike vessel in which Noah and his family were preserved during the Deluge. Gen. vi. Hence: Any place of refuge.

rst forth violently, as a storm. The clouds are still above; and, while I speak, A second deluge o'er our head may break. Shak.

An extensive overflow or sweeping flood of water; a deluge.

Connected with, or related to, the deluge, or to a cataclysm; as, clysmian changes. Smart.

A burning up; conflagration. "Innumerable deluges and deflagrations." Bp. Pearson.

Of or pertaining to a flood or deluge, esp. to the great deluge in the days of Noah; diluvian.

One who explains geological phenomena by the Noachian deluge. Lyell.

Of or pertaining to a deluge, esp. to the Noachian deluge; diluvial; as, of diluvian origin. Buckland.

Full of condemnation or destructive power. [R.] "That doomful deluge." Drayton.

A sudden burst of noise and disorder; a tumult; uproar; a quarrel. [Obs.] And deluges of armies from the town Came pouring in; I heard the mighty flaw. Dryden.

ally, 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.

tate or quality of being insatiable; insatiableness. Eagerness for increase of possession deluges the soul, and we sink into the gulfs of insatiability. Rambler.

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

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.

A patriarch of Biblical history, in the time of the Deluge. Noah's ark. (a) (Zoöl.) A marine bivalve shell (Arca Noæ), which somewhat resembles an ark, or ship, in form. (b) A child's toy, consisting of an ark-shaped box containing many different wooden animals.

ber; extra. Sixteen hundred and odd years after the earth was made, it was destroyed in a deluge. T. Burnet. There are yet missing of your company Some few odd lads that you remember not. Shak.