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That flows or for flowing (in various sense of the verb); gliding along smoothly; copious. Flowing battery (Elec.), a battery which is kept constant by the flowing of the exciting liquid through the cell or cells. Knight. -- Flowing furnace, a furnace from which molten metal, can be drawn, as through a tap hole; a fou…

In a flowing manner.

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

n overflow; that which overflows; exuberance; copiousness. He was ready to bestow the overflowings of his full mind on anybody who would start a subject. Macaulay.

In great abundance; exuberantly. Boyle.

An overflowing fullness; ample sufficiency; great plenty; profusion; copious supply; superfluity; wealth: -- strictly applicable to quantity only, but sometimes used of number. It is lamentable to remember what abundance of noble blood hath been shed with small benefit to the Christian state. Raleigh.…

A flowing to or towards; a concourse; an influx. The affluence of young nobles from hence into Spain. Wotton. There is an unusual affluence of strangers this year. Carlyle.

Flowing to; flowing abundantly. "Affluent blood." Harvey.

A flowing towards; that which flows to; as, an afflux of blood to the head.

The act of flowing towards; afflux. Sir T. Browne.

Flowing. Their founts aflow with tears. R. Browning.

Pertaining to, contained in, or composed of, alluvium; relating to the deposits made by flowing water; washed away from one place and deposited in another; as, alluvial soil, mud, accumulations, deposits.

An overflowing; an inundation; a flood. Lyell.

calculating fall of pressure in distributing mains, equivalent to a current of one ampère flowing through one foot of conductor.

Moving moderately slow, but distinct and flowing; quicker than larghetto, and slower than allegretto. -- n.

year; returning every year; coming or happening once in the year; yearly. The annual overflowing of the river [Nile]. Ray.

An accumulation of water overflowing the low lands, caused by an obstruction.

red and of an agreeable flavor; as, an intoxicating beverage. He knew no beverage but the flowing stream. Thomson.

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.

Full to the brim; overflowing.