The increase in the height of the sea, a river, or other body of water, through tidal action or flooding. Also occasionally: an instance of this.

A strong or turbulent current in the sea; a flood tide. Obsolete.

spec. The rising of the tide, or of the waters of a river; the advance of daylight from sunrise to noon; the waxing of the moon. Obsolete.

The rising of water above its ordinary level (as of a river in flood); the swell (of the sea); the rise (of the tide); the welling up (of a spring)…

The incoming or rise of the tide. Opposed to ebb; often in phrase ebb and flow; see ebb, n. 1.

The flowing or rising of the tide; also figurative.

The flux or flood of the tide (literal and figurative). at float, in float: at high water (in quots. figurative).

A flow or movement (of liquid, air, people, etc.) towards or into a particular place. Also: that which flows into something; an accession, an…

The flowing in of the tide. Often in phrase flux and reflux.

The action of flow, v. in various senses.

The rising or inflowing tide: = flood, n. 1.