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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
flowing
    adj 1: designed or arranged to offer the least resistant to
           fluid flow; "a streamlined convertible" [syn:
           streamlined, aerodynamic, flowing, sleek]
    n 1: the motion characteristic of fluids (liquids or gases)
         [syn: flow, flowing]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Flow \Flow\ (fl[=o]), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Flowed (fl[=o]d); p.
   pr. & vb. n. Flowing.] [AS. fl[=o]wan; akin to D. vloeijen,
   OHG. flawen to wash, Icel. fl[=o]a to deluge, Gr. plw`ein to
   float, sail, and prob. ultimately to E. float, fleet.
   [root]80. Cf. Flood.]
   1. To move with a continual change of place among the
      particles or parts, as a fluid; to change place or
      circulate, as a liquid; as, rivers flow from springs and
      lakes; tears flow from the eyes.
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   2. To become liquid; to melt.
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            The mountains flowed down at thy presence. --Is.
                                                  lxiv. 3.
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   3. To proceed; to issue forth; as, wealth flows from industry
      and economy.
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            Those thousand decencies that daily flow
            From all her words and actions.       --Milton.
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   4. To glide along smoothly, without harshness or asperties;
      as, a flowing period; flowing numbers; to sound smoothly
      to the ear; to be uttered easily.
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            Virgil is sweet and flowingin his hexameters.
                                                  --Dryden.
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   5. To have or be in abundance; to abound; to full, so as to
      run or flow over; to be copious.
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            In that day . . . the hills shall flow with milk.
                                                  --Joel iii.
                                                  18.
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            The exhilaration of a night that needed not the
            influence of the flowing bowl.        --Prof.
                                                  Wilson.
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   6. To hang loose and waving; as, a flowing mantle; flowing
      locks.
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            The imperial purple flowing in his train. --A.
                                                  Hamilton.
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   7. To rise, as the tide; -- opposed to ebb; as, the tide
      flows twice in twenty-four hours.
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            The river hath thrice flowed, no ebb between.
                                                  --Shak.
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   8. To discharge blood in excess from the uterus.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Flowing \Flow"ing\,
   a. & n. from Flow, v. i. & t.
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4. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Flowing \Flow"ing\, a.
   That flows or for flowing (in various sense of the verb);
   gliding along smoothly; copious.
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   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 foundry cupola.

   Flowing sheet (Naut.), a sheet when eased off, or loosened
      to the wind, as when the wind is abaft the beam. --Totten.
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