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; 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.

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

Abundantly; copiously.

Great plenty. [R.]

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

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

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

Flowing out; as, effluent beams. Parnell.

Flowing in. "With influent tide." Cowper. "Influent odors." Mrs. Browning.

r power; potent; efficacious; effective; strong; having authority or ascendency; as, an influential man, station, argument, etc. A very influential Gascon prefix. Earle.

In an influential manner.

Flowing between or among; intervening. Boyle.

Flowing as with honey; smooth; mellifluous.

In a mellifluent manner.

Flowing forward, [R.] "In the profluent stream." Milton.

Flowing back; returning; ebbing. Cowper. And refluent through the pass of fear The battle's tide was poured. Sir W. Scott.

Flowing with dew. [R.]

Running under or beneath. [R.]