Of a well, spring, stream, etc.: running, flowing; (now chiefly) spec. fast-flowing.

Water flowing in from behind. Obsolete.

(a) high water; (b) a large or full-flowing body of water; (c) = main sea, n.

= main flood n.

A body of waters produced by the union of several streams; a large body of water, or other fluid, flowing together; a combined flood.

A body of water moving forcibly or dashing against something.

concrete. That which flows; flowing water. Also, a mass of matter that moves or has moved in a stream.

semi-concrete of a forcibly moving body of water.

A stretch of sloping ground down which water flows. Cf. slide, n. 9.

A sliding mass or stretch of water.

The action or process of water (or a substance carried in it) running off an area, surface, object, building, etc.; an instance of this; (North Ame…