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The calling sound made by cows and other bovine animals.

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.

Next after; succeeding; ensuing; as, the assembly was held on the following day.

See Advancing-edge, above.

See Advancing-surface, above.

In a glowing manner; with ardent heat or passion.

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.

The act, or art, of causing animals to produce tallow; also, the property in animals of producing tallow.

The act or process of making yellow. Softened . . . by the yellowing which time has given. G. Eliot.

In a state of glowing excitement or ardent desire. The young Cambridge democrats were all ablaze to assist Torrijos. Carlyle.

To swallow up; to engulf; to overwhelm; to cause to disappear as if by swallowing up; to use up; to include. "Dark oblivion soon absorbs them all." Cowper. The large cities absorb the wealth and fashion. W. Irving.

Absorbing; swallowing; absorptive. Absorbent ground (Paint.), a ground prepared for a picture, chiefly with distemper, or water colors, by which the oil is absorbed, and a brilliancy is imparted to the colors.

Swallowing, engrossing; as, an absorbing pursuit. -- Ab*sorb"ing, adv.

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.…

reeman. -- To go across the country, to go by a direct course across a region without following the roads.

The front edge (in direction of motion) of a supporting surface; -- contr. with following edge, which is the rear edge.

The first of two or more surfaces arranged in tandem; -- contr. with following surface, which is the rear surface.