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vered; a deluge; a freshet; an inundation. A covenant never to destroy The earth again by flood. Milton.

Inundation. [R.] Carlyle.

One who floods anything.

The filling or covering with water or other fluid; overflow; inundation; the filling anything to excess.

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

A flood of water; an inundation.

sses And broken chariot wheels; so thick bestrown Abject and lost lay these, covering the flood. Milton.

tunate character; a casualty; a mishap; as, to die by an accident. Of moving accidents by flood and field. Shak. Thou cam'st not to thy place by accident: It is the very place God meant for thee. Trench.

An overflowing; an inundation; a flood. Lyell.

Deposits of earth, sand, gravel, and other transported matter, made by rivers, floods, or other causes, upon land not permanently submerged beneath the waters of lakes or seas. Lyell.

d, or act by turns; to follow reciprocally in place or time; -- followed by with; as, the flood and ebb tides alternate with each other. Rage, shame, and grief alternate in his breast. J. Philips. Different species alternating with each other. Kirwan.

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

To immerse or cover one's self, as in a bath. "To bathe in fiery floods." Shak. "Bathe in the dimples of her cheek." Lloyd.

Bordered by a beach. The beached verge of the salt flood. Shak.

. : A horizontal mark at the water's edge with reference to which the height of tides and floods may be measured.

A great wave or flood of anything. Milton.

ction binds the planets to the sun; frost binds the earth, or the streams. He bindeth the floods from overflowing. Job xxviii. 11. Whom Satan hath bound, lo, these eighteen years. Luke xiii. 16.

A tidal flood which regularly or occasionally rushes into certain rivers of peculiar configuration or location, in one or more waves which present a very abrupt front of considerable height, dangerous to shipping, as at the mouth of the Amazon, in South America, the Hoogly and Indus, in India, and the Tsien-tang, in Ch…

; to confine. Where full measure only bounds excess. Milton. Phlegethon . . . Whose fiery flood the burning empire bounds. Dryden.

rine, or to the sea; partaking of the nature of brine; salt; as, a briny taste; the briny flood.