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An inclosed passage way for establishing and directing a current of air, gases, etc.; an air passage; esp.:

, causing a wave motion in the air within; a mouth pipe; -- distinguished from reed pipe. Flue pipes are either open or closed (stopped at the distant end). The flute and flageolet are open pipes; a bottle acts as a closed pipe when one blows across the neck. The organ has both open and closed flue pipes, those of meta…

Fluency. [Obs.] Milton.

The quality of being fluent; smoothness; readiness of utterance; volubility. The art of expressing with fluency and perspicuity. Macaulay.

; copious; having words at command; and uttering them with facility and smoothness; as, a fluent speaker; hence, flowing; voluble; smooth; -- said of language; as, fluent speech. With most fluent utterance. Denham. Fluent as the flight of a swallow is the sultan's letter. De Quincey.

In a fluent manner.

The quality of being fluent.

A general name for organ stops in which the sound is caused by wind passing through a flue or fissure and striking an edge above; -- in distinction from reedwork.

Downy; fluffy. [R.]

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.

Affluence. [Obs.] Addison.

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

Abundantly; copiously.

Great plenty. [R.]

A flowing round on all sides; an inclosing with a fluid.

Flowing round; surrounding in the manner of a fluid. "The deep, circumfluent waves." Pope.

The act of flowing together; the meeting or junction of two or more streams; the place of meeting.

d by having the pustules, etc., run together or unite, so as to cover the surface; as, confluent smallpox. Dunglison.

A flowing off on all sides; fluidity. [R.]

Flowing apart or off; dissolving; not fixed. [R.] Bailey.