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g on or passing by, as of a flowing stream; constant succession; change. By the perpetual flux of the liquids, a great part of them is thrown out of the body. Arbuthnot. Her image has escaped the flux of things, And that same infant beauty that she wore Is fixed upon her now forevermore. Trench. Languages, like our bod…

The act of fluxing.

The quality of being fluxible. Hammond.

Capable of being melted or fused, as a mineral. Holland. -- Flux"i*ble*ness, n.

Fluxible. [R.]

State of being fluxible.[Obs.]

A constantly varying indication. Less to be counted than the fluxions of sun dials. De Quincey.

Pertaining to, or having the nature of, fluxion or fluxions; variable; inconstant. The merely human,the temporary and fluxional. Coleridge. Fluxional structure (Geol.), fluidal structure.

Fluxional. Berkeley.

One skilled in fluxions. Berkeley.

See Fluxion, 6(b).

Flowing; also, wanting solidity. B. Jonson.

The quality of being fluid. [Obs.] Fielding.

See Affluxion.

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

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

The dysentery, a disease in which the flux or discharge from the bowels has a mixture of blood. Arbuthnot.

A flowing together; a meeting of currents. "The conflux of meeting sap." Shak.

The tendency of fluids to run together. [R.] Boyle.

Inclined to flow or run together. --Con*flux"i*ble*ness, n.