flowingn.

Brit.

/ˈfləʊɪŋ/, U.S.

/ˈfloʊɪŋ/

Etymology: < flow v. + -ing suffix¹.

1. The action of flow v. in various senses.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > liquid > liquid flow > action or process of flowing > [noun]

flowingc950

flowa1450

defluxionc1550

fluxion1555

fluxc1600

fluor1642

the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > [noun]

runninga1398

goutc1400

stream14..

flowingc1440

watercourse1552

current1555

fluxc1600

gliding1600

fluor1642

currency1657

lapse1667

shoot1799

flowage1830

come1862

society > travel > [noun] > passage in a continuous stream

flowing1490

society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > elegance > [noun] > fluency

profluence1568

flowing1584

slidingnessa1586

currentness1586

smoothness1589

facility1598

fluidity1603

fluency1636

profluencya1683

volubleness1727

torrentfulness1873

sonority1876

unrestraint1885

the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > change in level of water > [noun] > rise in level of water

increase1555

swelling1557

risea1602

flowing1642

the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > tide > type of tide > [noun] > rising or flowing in flood

risinga1387

acker1440

increase1555

swelling1557

flow1583

tiding1593

float1594

afflux1603

flux1612

flowing1642

flood-tide1719

the world > life > the body > vascular system > circulation > [noun]

circulation1656

blood circulation1684

circulation1707

flowing1807

c950 Lindisf. Gosp. Matt. ix. 20 Wif ðiu blodes flouing geðolade tuelf uinter.

c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 168/1 Flowynge of þe watur, fluxus.

1490 W. Caxton tr. Foure Sonnes of Aymon (1885) xxviii. 589 Soo grete a flowynge and gaderynge of the people.

1584 King James VI & I Ess. Prentise Poesie sig. Kij They obseruit not Flowing, nor eschewit not Ryming in termes.

1642 J. Howell Instr. Forreine Travell iii. 42 We must have perpetuall ebbings and flowings of mirth and melancholy.

1704 J. Swift Tale of Tub v. 117 The happy Turns and Flowings of the Author's Wit.

1705 J. Addison Remarks Italy 513 The..Flowings in of the Holy Spirit.

1807 J. E. Smith Introd. Physiol. & Systematical Bot. 63 This great motion, called the flowing, of the sap.

1853 H. Douglas Ess. Mil. Bridges (ed. 3) i. 2 The flowing of water in a river.

2. concrete.

a. That which flows, that which streams forth, a stream, a wave; also transferred a ‘stream’ or herd of animals. Now rare.

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the world > animals > animals collectively > [noun] > herd or flock

herda1000

flockc1200

routc1300

flowinga1382

rabblec1400

meinie1481

many1579

school?1590

plump1591

charm1801

band1824

mob1828

the world > the earth > water > rivers and streams > stream > [noun]

burnc1000

strind?c1225

stranda1240

flowinga1382

gole?a1400

watercoursea1450

riparya1475

glide1590

lympha1630

stream1803

floss1865

strool1867

the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > wave > [noun]

waterOE

undc1200

wawc1290

flowinga1382

water wave?1555

wale1565

wave1671

a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Psalms xcii. 3 Flodis rereden vp ther flowingis.

1382 J. Wyclif Isa. lx. 6 The flowyng of camalles shal couere thee.

a1425 (c1395) Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) (Royal) (1850) Josh. v. 1 The Lord hadden dried the flowyngis of Jordan bifor the sones of Israel.

a1680 T. Goodwin Wks. (1704) V. i. 57 The Sun..whose Emanations and flowings forth they are.

1844 W. Upton Physioglyphics ii. 81 These rivers..were what I may term flowings, which may refer to any other fluid as well as water.

†b. An overflowing; a flood. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > flood or flooding > [noun]

streamc950

water floodOE

floodc1000

waterOE

diluvya1325

waterganga1325

flowinga1340

delugec1374

diluvec1386

Noah's floodc1390

overflowing1430

inundation1432

flowa1450

surrounding1449

over-drowninga1500

spate1513

float1523

drowning1539

ravine1545

alluvion1550

surundacion1552

watershot1567

overflow1589

ravage1611

inunding1628

surroundera1642

water breach1669

flooding1799

debacle1802

diluviation1816

deluging1824

superflux1830

whelm1842

come1862

floodage1862

sheet-flood1897

flash flooding1939

flash-flood1940

a1340 R. Rolle Psalter xxviii. 9 Lord þe flowynge makis into wone.

a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Isa. xliv. 3 I shal heelden out..flowingus vp on the drie.

1662 E. Turner Speech to King 4 Your return into this Nation..resembles the flowing of the river Nilus.

1663 in J. A. Picton City of Liverpool: Select. Munic. Rec. (1883) I. 328 For preserving of y^e same from y^e stormes and flowings of y^e sea.

3. Nautical. (See quot. 1769). Cf. flow v. 7d.

ΚΠ

1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine Flowing, the position of the sheets, or lower corners of the principal sails, when they are loosened to the wind.

4. attributive, as flowing-capacity.

ΚΠ

1895 Westm. Gaz. 4 June 3/3 The new aqueduct has a flowing capacity of 300,000,000 gallons a day.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

flowingadj.

Brit.

/ˈfləʊɪŋ/, U.S.

/ˈfloʊɪŋ/

Etymology: < flow v. + -ing suffix².

a. That flows, in various senses of the verb flowing metal n. see quot. 1888.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > [adjective]

livingeOE

flowinga1000

runningOE

quicka1300

livish?1536

lively1548

streaming1579

streamyc1595

crystal-flowing1605

preterlabent1670

manant1727

affluent1863

the world > matter > liquid > liquid flow > action or process of flowing > [adjective]

flowinga1000

runningOE

laving13..

yerning1340

current?1523

coursing1600

fluent1607

coulant1632

aflow1863

the world > movement > progressive motion > specific manner of progressive motion > [adjective] > continuously

ambulativea1400

flowing1700

flowy1798

onflowing1839

the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming out > [adjective] > copiously or continuously

outflowingOE

wellingc1400

outgushing1569

overflown1579

profluous1585

outstreaming1598

spewing1616

effluxivea1657

effluxing1674

effluenced1691

effluent1726

effusive1726

outwelling1736

profluent1737

outpouring1808

pumping1812

gushing1815

founting1827

flowing1867

fountaining1883

a1000 Battle of Maldon 65 Þær com flowende flod æfter ebban.

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Gött.) l. 20882 Apon þe flouand see he ȝode.

a1425 (c1395) Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) (Royal) (1850) Isa. lxvi. 12 A flowynge streem.

1509 S. Hawes Pastime of Pleasure xxxiv. xxii After an ebbe there commeth a flowyng tyde.

1698 tr. F. Froger Relation Voy. Coasts Afr. 76 Where the Shallops ride at flowing Water.

1700 R. Blackmore Paraphr. Job i. 2 To pass the flowing hours in soft delight.

1825 A. Cunningham Song A wet sheet and a flowing sea.

1841–4 R. W. Emerson Poet in Wks. (1906) I. 166 Plato defines a line to be a flowing point.

1867 R. Hunt Ure's Dict. Arts (ed. 6) III. 404 [Petroleum] The first great flowing well at Ennis~killen.

1888 Lockwood's Dict. Mech. Engin. Flowing Metals, metals of the ductile class which..change their form, under impact, or tensile or compressive strain.

†b. Mathematics. Continuously varying by infinitesimal quantities. (See fluxion n.) Obsolete.

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the world > relative properties > number > calculus > [adjective] > varying continuously

flowing1704

fluent1734

fluential1784

1704 C. Hayes Treat. Fluxions i. 4 The respective flowing Quantities AP, PM, AM.

1758 I. Lyons Treat. Fluxions 4 If two flowing quantities x and y are to each other in a given ratio.

1807 C. Hutton Course Math. (ed. 5) II. 278 Variable or flowing quantities.

1842 G. W. Francis Dict. Arts Fluent, or Flowing Quantity.

†2. Fluctuating, unstable, inconstant. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > will > decision > irresolution or vacillation > [adjective]

twiredec888

orrathc1175

twofoldc1175

twifoldc1200

waveringc1315

uncertain1382

suspensec1440

mammeringa1450

flowing?1504

floghtering1521

vacillant1521

in a mammering1532

double-minded1552

unstaid1561

unresolute1570

unresolved?1571

staggeringa1577

frittle1579

irresolute1579

cheverel1583

off and on1583

halting1585

unsettleda1593

unresolving1599

demurring1607

waving1611

suspensive1614

hoveringa1616

startling1619

irresolved1621

hesitating1622

indetermined1628

variousa1643

branling1645

hesitant1647

non-sincere1656

hesitatious1657

humdrum1660

shuttlecock1660

yea-and-nay1672

swaying1688

interpendent1708

undetermined1718

Squadronec1720

hesitatorya1734

volanta1734

shilly-shally1734

dilly-dally1749

niffy-naffy1765

wiggle-waggle1778

undecided1779

undecisive1780

indecisive1787

conflicted1789

hesitative1795

undeciding1802

vacillating1814

yea-nay1827

demurrant1836

willy-nilly1839

shilly-shallying1842

oscillative1852

Hamletish1854

vacillatory1854

dilly-dallying1879

thistledown1897

weak-principled1913

not-quite1920

off-again on-again1923

dithery1931

havering1975

?1504 W. Atkinson tr. Thomas à Kempis Ful Treat. Imytacyon Cryste (Pynson) i. xxv. 176 His flowynge and vnstedfast mynde.

c1540 J. Bellenden tr. H. Boece Hyst. & Cron. Scotl. xvi. xv. f. 240/2 For the mynd of commoun pepyll ar euir flowand mair inconstant than wynd.

a. Of language, etc. Gliding easily and smoothly, fluent. Of a person: Having a flowing style (archaic).

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > elegance > [adjective] > fluent or unforced

gentc1390

renablec1410

flowing1553

round1565

unracked1572

current1577

ready1583

voluble1598

facile1607

unforceda1616

fluent1625

sliding1627

unstudied1657

flippanta1677

easy1711

fast-flowing1770

fluida1794

superfluent1917

1553 T. Wilson Arte of Rhetorique iii. f. 108^v The flowyng stile.

1608 Bp. J. Hall Epist. II. iv. iii. 141 Resolute Hierome, or flowing Chrysostome.

1625 B. Jonson Fortunate Isles 291 In rime! fine tinckling rime! and flowand verse!

1627 G. Hakewill Apologie i. v. 51 A great wit, a flowing eloquence.

1718 M. Prior Charity 1 Did sweeter Sounds adorn my flowing Tongue, Than ever Man pronounc'd.

1782 W. Cowper Table Talk in Poems 741 Flowing numbers and a flowery style.

1827 T. Carlyle State Germ. Lit. in Edinb. Rev. Oct. 304 Undoubtedly he has a flowing pen.

1832 L. Hunt Sonnet in Poet. Wks. 212 Flowing Garth.

quasi-adverb.1706 A. Pope Corr. 22 Oct. (1956) I. 23 In describing a gliding Stream, the Numbers shou'd run easy and flowing.

b. Of personal carriage and demeanour: Easy, graceful, smooth.

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the mind > attention and judgement > good taste > refinement > elegance > [adjective] > graceful

gracious1340

gracefulc1449

elegant1483

nymphlike1567

flowing1619

gracely1648

leggiadrous1648

featly1801

gainly1871

svelte1909

1619 F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Maides Trag. iv. sig. G3^v Thou art..A Lady of..such a flowing carriage, that it cannot Chuse but inflame a Kingdom.

1766 J. Fordyce Serm. Young Women I. i. 23 A certain flowing urbanity is acquired.

1868 J. Bruce in K. Digby Jrnl. Voy. Mediterranean Pref. p. xx A flowing courtesy and civility.

1870 C. Dickens Edwin Drood iv. 21 A certain gravely flowing action with his hands.

4. Of lines or curves, also of objects with reference to their contour: Smoothly continuous and free from rigidity or stiffness. flowing tracery (in Architecture: see quot. 1815).

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the world > space > shape > curvature > [adjective] > rounded or not angular

inangular1646

rounded1658

flowing1709

contoured1725

cornerless1793

bull-nose1858

globuloid1889

radiused1936

1709 M. Prior Ode to Howard Each flowing Line confirm'd his first Surprize.

1815 T. Rickman in J. Smith Panorama Sci. & Art I. 132 Tracery is..flowing, where the lines branch out into leaves, arches, &c.

1816 L. Hunt Story of Rimini i. 203 The flowing back, firm chest, and fetlocks clean.

1859 J. H. Parker Some Acct. Domest. Archit. IV. vii. 315 The Chapel is Early English, with flowing windows inserted at the East and North.

1864 Ld. Tennyson Aylmer's Field in Enoch Arden, etc. 85 Princely halls, and farms, and flowing lawns.

a. Of hair, garments, etc.: Swaying loosely and gracefully; waving, unconfined, streaming.

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the world > space > relative position > support > hanging or suspension > [adjective] > hanging down > streaming

streaming1567

plemmirrulate1592

flowing1606

flying1607

loose1781

streamy1813

fly-away1843

flowy1925

1606 B. Jonson Hymenaei 617 Beneath that, an other flowing Garment, of Watchet Cloth of Silver.

1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Pastorals vii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 34 With Hazle, Phyllis crowns her flowing Hair.

1782 W. Cowper John Gilpin 46 John..Seized fast the flowing mane.

1869 C. Boutell tr. J. P. Lacombe Arms & Armour x. 193 The long and flowing surcoat.

b. Nautical. flowing sail, flowing sheet. (See quots. 1769, 1841-4 at sense 1a, and cf. flowing n. 3.)

ΚΠ

1748 B. Robins & R. Walter Voy. round World by Anson ii. ii. 130 We were pleasingly surprized..to see her open the N.W. point of the bay with a flowing sail.

1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine sig. S2 A ship is therefore said to have a flowing sheet when the wind crosses the line of her course nearly at right angles.

1825 H. B. Gascoigne Path to Naval Fame 91 With flowing sails..They seek their station on the western seas.

1841 R. H. Dana Seaman's Man. 105 Flowing Sheet when a vessel has the wind free, and the lee clews eased off.

figurative.1834 F. Marryat Peter Simple II. xiii. 213 Didn't you say..that the captain had paid it [sc. a bill] with a flowing sheet?1861 T. P. Thompson Audi Alteram Partem III. clxi. 174 To wait till the folly could be put down with a flowing sail.

6. Rising like the tide; full to overflowing, brimming, abundant, copious.

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the world > relative properties > quantity > sufficient quantity, amount, or degree > abundance > [adjective]

goodeOE

broadOE

fullOE

large?c1225

rifec1225

fulsomea1325

abundanta1382

plenteousa1382

copiousc1384

plentifula1400

ranka1400

aboundc1425

affluentc1425

aboundable?1440

seedy1440

manyfulc1450

ample1472

olda1500

richa1500

flowing1526

fertilent1535

wallingc1540

copy1546

abounding1560

fat1563

numbrous1566

good, great store1569

round1592

redundant1594

fruitful1604

cornucopian1609

much1609

plenty?a1610

pukka1619

redundant1621

uberant1622

swelling1628

uberous1633

numerousa1635

superfluent1648

full tide1649

lucky1649

redounding1667

numerose1692

bumper1836

prolific1890

proliferous1915

1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection iii. sig. OOii Sensualite with all her flowing voluptuous desyres.

1623 W. Shakespeare & J. Fletcher Henry VIII ii. iii. 62 The Kings Maiesty..Doe's purpose honour to you no lesse flowing, Then Marchionesse of Pembrooke.

1644 J. Milton Of Educ. 3 Fat contentions, and flowing fees.

a1719 J. Addison Dialogues Medals in Wks. (1721) I. ii. 474 Horace..speaks of the moderation to be used in a flowing fortune.

1787 R. Burns Poems (new ed.) 83 All-chearing Plenty, with her flowing horn.

1871 S. Smiles Character ii. 49 She was full of joyous flowing mother-wit.

7. flowing hope n. mispron. of forlorn hope.

ΚΠ

1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Flowing-hope: see Forlorn Hope.

1889 in A. Barrère & C. G. Leland Dict. Slang

Derivatives

ˈflowingly adv. in a flowing manner.

ΚΠ

a1603 T. Cartwright Confut. Rhemists New Test. (1618) 432 Not..so flowingly by some, as by all the pipes of the Churches exercises.

1804 R. Southey in J. W. Robberds Mem. W. Taylor (1843) I. 495 It more flowingly fills the sentence.

1880 G. Meredith Tragic Comedians II. iii. 34 When the letters were unimportant, she wrote flowingly.

ˈflowingness n. the quality or state of being flowing.

ΚΠ

a1712 W. Nicholls Def. Doctr. Church of Eng. (1715) Introd. 118 The..flowingness of his easie Eloquence.

1852 H. Spencer Gracefulness in Ess. (1891) II. 384 A leading trait of grace is continuity, flowingness.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	flowing
释义	flowingn. Brit. /ˈfləʊɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈfloʊɪŋ/ Etymology: < flow v. + -ing suffix¹. 1. The action of flow v. in various senses. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > liquid > liquid flow > action or process of flowing > [noun] flowingc950 flowa1450 defluxionc1550 fluxion1555 fluxc1600 fluor1642 the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > [noun] runninga1398 goutc1400 stream14.. flowingc1440 watercourse1552 current1555 fluxc1600 gliding1600 fluor1642 currency1657 lapse1667 shoot1799 flowage1830 come1862 society > travel > [noun] > passage in a continuous stream flowing1490 society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > elegance > [noun] > fluency profluence1568 flowing1584 slidingnessa1586 currentness1586 smoothness1589 facility1598 fluidity1603 fluency1636 profluencya1683 volubleness1727 torrentfulness1873 sonority1876 unrestraint1885 the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > change in level of water > [noun] > rise in level of water increase1555 swelling1557 risea1602 flowing1642 the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > tide > type of tide > [noun] > rising or flowing in flood risinga1387 acker1440 increase1555 swelling1557 flow1583 tiding1593 float1594 afflux1603 flux1612 flowing1642 flood-tide1719 the world > life > the body > vascular system > circulation > [noun] circulation1656 blood circulation1684 circulation1707 flowing1807 c950 Lindisf. Gosp. Matt. ix. 20 Wif ðiu blodes flouing geðolade tuelf uinter. c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 168/1 Flowynge of þe watur, fluxus. 1490 W. Caxton tr. Foure Sonnes of Aymon (1885) xxviii. 589 Soo grete a flowynge and gaderynge of the people. 1584 King James VI & I Ess. Prentise Poesie sig. Kij They obseruit not Flowing, nor eschewit not Ryming in termes. 1642 J. Howell Instr. Forreine Travell iii. 42 We must have perpetuall ebbings and flowings of mirth and melancholy. 1704 J. Swift Tale of Tub v. 117 The happy Turns and Flowings of the Author's Wit. 1705 J. Addison Remarks Italy 513 The..Flowings in of the Holy Spirit. 1807 J. E. Smith Introd. Physiol. & Systematical Bot. 63 This great motion, called the flowing, of the sap. 1853 H. Douglas Ess. Mil. Bridges (ed. 3) i. 2 The flowing of water in a river. 2. concrete. a. That which flows, that which streams forth, a stream, a wave; also transferred a ‘stream’ or herd of animals. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > animals collectively > [noun] > herd or flock herda1000 flockc1200 routc1300 flowinga1382 rabblec1400 meinie1481 many1579 school?1590 plump1591 charm1801 band1824 mob1828 the world > the earth > water > rivers and streams > stream > [noun] burnc1000 strind?c1225 stranda1240 flowinga1382 gole?a1400 watercoursea1450 riparya1475 glide1590 lympha1630 stream1803 floss1865 strool1867 the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > wave > [noun] waterOE undc1200 wawc1290 flowinga1382 water wave?1555 wale1565 wave1671 a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Psalms xcii. 3 Flodis rereden vp ther flowingis. 1382 J. Wyclif Isa. lx. 6 The flowyng of camalles shal couere thee. a1425 (c1395) Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) (Royal) (1850) Josh. v. 1 The Lord hadden dried the flowyngis of Jordan bifor the sones of Israel. a1680 T. Goodwin Wks. (1704) V. i. 57 The Sun..whose Emanations and flowings forth they are. 1844 W. Upton Physioglyphics ii. 81 These rivers..were what I may term flowings, which may refer to any other fluid as well as water. †b. An overflowing; a flood. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > flood or flooding > [noun] streamc950 water floodOE floodc1000 waterOE diluvya1325 waterganga1325 flowinga1340 delugec1374 diluvec1386 Noah's floodc1390 overflowing1430 inundation1432 flowa1450 surrounding1449 over-drowninga1500 spate1513 float1523 drowning1539 ravine1545 alluvion1550 surundacion1552 watershot1567 overflow1589 ravage1611 inunding1628 surroundera1642 water breach1669 flooding1799 debacle1802 diluviation1816 deluging1824 superflux1830 whelm1842 come1862 floodage1862 sheet-flood1897 flash flooding1939 flash-flood1940 a1340 R. Rolle Psalter xxviii. 9 Lord þe flowynge makis into wone. a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Isa. xliv. 3 I shal heelden out..flowingus vp on the drie. 1662 E. Turner Speech to King 4 Your return into this Nation..resembles the flowing of the river Nilus. 1663 in J. A. Picton City of Liverpool: Select. Munic. Rec. (1883) I. 328 For preserving of y^e same from y^e stormes and flowings of y^e sea. 3. Nautical. (See quot. 1769). Cf. flow v. 7d. ΚΠ 1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine Flowing, the position of the sheets, or lower corners of the principal sails, when they are loosened to the wind. 4. attributive, as flowing-capacity. ΚΠ 1895 Westm. Gaz. 4 June 3/3 The new aqueduct has a flowing capacity of 300,000,000 gallons a day. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online March 2022). flowingadj. Brit. /ˈfləʊɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈfloʊɪŋ/ Etymology: < flow v. + -ing suffix². 1. a. That flows, in various senses of the verb flowing metal n. see quot. 1888. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > [adjective] livingeOE flowinga1000 runningOE quicka1300 livish?1536 lively1548 streaming1579 streamyc1595 crystal-flowing1605 preterlabent1670 manant1727 affluent1863 the world > matter > liquid > liquid flow > action or process of flowing > [adjective] flowinga1000 runningOE laving13.. yerning1340 current?1523 coursing1600 fluent1607 coulant1632 aflow1863 the world > movement > progressive motion > specific manner of progressive motion > [adjective] > continuously ambulativea1400 flowing1700 flowy1798 onflowing1839 the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming out > [adjective] > copiously or continuously outflowingOE wellingc1400 outgushing1569 overflown1579 profluous1585 outstreaming1598 spewing1616 effluxivea1657 effluxing1674 effluenced1691 effluent1726 effusive1726 outwelling1736 profluent1737 outpouring1808 pumping1812 gushing1815 founting1827 flowing1867 fountaining1883 a1000 Battle of Maldon 65 Þær com flowende flod æfter ebban. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Gött.) l. 20882 Apon þe flouand see he ȝode. a1425 (c1395) Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) (Royal) (1850) Isa. lxvi. 12 A flowynge streem. 1509 S. Hawes Pastime of Pleasure xxxiv. xxii After an ebbe there commeth a flowyng tyde. 1698 tr. F. Froger Relation Voy. Coasts Afr. 76 Where the Shallops ride at flowing Water. 1700 R. Blackmore Paraphr. Job i. 2 To pass the flowing hours in soft delight. 1825 A. Cunningham Song A wet sheet and a flowing sea. 1841–4 R. W. Emerson Poet in Wks. (1906) I. 166 Plato defines a line to be a flowing point. 1867 R. Hunt Ure's Dict. Arts (ed. 6) III. 404 [Petroleum] The first great flowing well at Ennis~killen. 1888 Lockwood's Dict. Mech. Engin. Flowing Metals, metals of the ductile class which..change their form, under impact, or tensile or compressive strain. †b. Mathematics. Continuously varying by infinitesimal quantities. (See fluxion n.) Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > calculus > [adjective] > varying continuously flowing1704 fluent1734 fluential1784 1704 C. Hayes Treat. Fluxions i. 4 The respective flowing Quantities AP, PM, AM. 1758 I. Lyons Treat. Fluxions 4 If two flowing quantities x and y are to each other in a given ratio. 1807 C. Hutton Course Math. (ed. 5) II. 278 Variable or flowing quantities. 1842 G. W. Francis Dict. Arts Fluent, or Flowing Quantity. †2. Fluctuating, unstable, inconstant. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > decision > irresolution or vacillation > [adjective] twiredec888 orrathc1175 twofoldc1175 twifoldc1200 waveringc1315 uncertain1382 suspensec1440 mammeringa1450 flowing?1504 floghtering1521 vacillant1521 in a mammering1532 double-minded1552 unstaid1561 unresolute1570 unresolved?1571 staggeringa1577 frittle1579 irresolute1579 cheverel1583 off and on1583 halting1585 unsettleda1593 unresolving1599 demurring1607 waving1611 suspensive1614 hoveringa1616 startling1619 irresolved1621 hesitating1622 indetermined1628 variousa1643 branling1645 hesitant1647 non-sincere1656 hesitatious1657 humdrum1660 shuttlecock1660 yea-and-nay1672 swaying1688 interpendent1708 undetermined1718 Squadronec1720 hesitatorya1734 volanta1734 shilly-shally1734 dilly-dally1749 niffy-naffy1765 wiggle-waggle1778 undecided1779 undecisive1780 indecisive1787 conflicted1789 hesitative1795 undeciding1802 vacillating1814 yea-nay1827 demurrant1836 willy-nilly1839 shilly-shallying1842 oscillative1852 Hamletish1854 vacillatory1854 dilly-dallying1879 thistledown1897 weak-principled1913 not-quite1920 off-again on-again1923 dithery1931 havering1975 ?1504 W. Atkinson tr. Thomas à Kempis Ful Treat. Imytacyon Cryste (Pynson) i. xxv. 176 His flowynge and vnstedfast mynde. c1540 J. Bellenden tr. H. Boece Hyst. & Cron. Scotl. xvi. xv. f. 240/2 For the mynd of commoun pepyll ar euir flowand mair inconstant than wynd. 3. a. Of language, etc. Gliding easily and smoothly, fluent. Of a person: Having a flowing style (archaic). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > elegance > [adjective] > fluent or unforced gentc1390 renablec1410 flowing1553 round1565 unracked1572 current1577 ready1583 voluble1598 facile1607 unforceda1616 fluent1625 sliding1627 unstudied1657 flippanta1677 easy1711 fast-flowing1770 fluida1794 superfluent1917 1553 T. Wilson Arte of Rhetorique iii. f. 108^v The flowyng stile. 1608 Bp. J. Hall Epist. II. iv. iii. 141 Resolute Hierome, or flowing Chrysostome. 1625 B. Jonson Fortunate Isles 291 In rime! fine tinckling rime! and flowand verse! 1627 G. Hakewill Apologie i. v. 51 A great wit, a flowing eloquence. 1718 M. Prior Charity 1 Did sweeter Sounds adorn my flowing Tongue, Than ever Man pronounc'd. 1782 W. Cowper Table Talk in Poems 741 Flowing numbers and a flowery style. 1827 T. Carlyle State Germ. Lit. in Edinb. Rev. Oct. 304 Undoubtedly he has a flowing pen. 1832 L. Hunt Sonnet in Poet. Wks. 212 Flowing Garth. quasi-adverb.1706 A. Pope Corr. 22 Oct. (1956) I. 23 In describing a gliding Stream, the Numbers shou'd run easy and flowing. b. Of personal carriage and demeanour: Easy, graceful, smooth. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > good taste > refinement > elegance > [adjective] > graceful gracious1340 gracefulc1449 elegant1483 nymphlike1567 flowing1619 gracely1648 leggiadrous1648 featly1801 gainly1871 svelte1909 1619 F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Maides Trag. iv. sig. G3^v Thou art..A Lady of..such a flowing carriage, that it cannot Chuse but inflame a Kingdom. 1766 J. Fordyce Serm. Young Women I. i. 23 A certain flowing urbanity is acquired. 1868 J. Bruce in K. Digby Jrnl. Voy. Mediterranean Pref. p. xx A flowing courtesy and civility. 1870 C. Dickens Edwin Drood iv. 21 A certain gravely flowing action with his hands. 4. Of lines or curves, also of objects with reference to their contour: Smoothly continuous and free from rigidity or stiffness. flowing tracery (in Architecture: see quot. 1815). ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > curvature > [adjective] > rounded or not angular inangular1646 rounded1658 flowing1709 contoured1725 cornerless1793 bull-nose1858 globuloid1889 radiused1936 1709 M. Prior Ode to Howard Each flowing Line confirm'd his first Surprize. 1815 T. Rickman in J. Smith Panorama Sci. & Art I. 132 Tracery is..flowing, where the lines branch out into leaves, arches, &c. 1816 L. Hunt Story of Rimini i. 203 The flowing back, firm chest, and fetlocks clean. 1859 J. H. Parker Some Acct. Domest. Archit. IV. vii. 315 The Chapel is Early English, with flowing windows inserted at the East and North. 1864 Ld. Tennyson Aylmer's Field in Enoch Arden, etc. 85 Princely halls, and farms, and flowing lawns. 5. a. Of hair, garments, etc.: Swaying loosely and gracefully; waving, unconfined, streaming. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > support > hanging or suspension > [adjective] > hanging down > streaming streaming1567 plemmirrulate1592 flowing1606 flying1607 loose1781 streamy1813 fly-away1843 flowy1925 1606 B. Jonson Hymenaei 617 Beneath that, an other flowing Garment, of Watchet Cloth of Silver. 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Pastorals vii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 34 With Hazle, Phyllis crowns her flowing Hair. 1782 W. Cowper John Gilpin 46 John..Seized fast the flowing mane. 1869 C. Boutell tr. J. P. Lacombe Arms & Armour x. 193 The long and flowing surcoat. b. Nautical. flowing sail, flowing sheet. (See quots. 1769, 1841-4 at sense 1a, and cf. flowing n. 3.) ΚΠ 1748 B. Robins & R. Walter Voy. round World by Anson ii. ii. 130 We were pleasingly surprized..to see her open the N.W. point of the bay with a flowing sail. 1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine sig. S2 A ship is therefore said to have a flowing sheet when the wind crosses the line of her course nearly at right angles. 1825 H. B. Gascoigne Path to Naval Fame 91 With flowing sails..They seek their station on the western seas. 1841 R. H. Dana Seaman's Man. 105 Flowing Sheet when a vessel has the wind free, and the lee clews eased off. figurative.1834 F. Marryat Peter Simple II. xiii. 213 Didn't you say..that the captain had paid it [sc. a bill] with a flowing sheet?1861 T. P. Thompson Audi Alteram Partem III. clxi. 174 To wait till the folly could be put down with a flowing sail. 6. Rising like the tide; full to overflowing, brimming, abundant, copious. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > sufficient quantity, amount, or degree > abundance > [adjective] goodeOE broadOE fullOE large?c1225 rifec1225 fulsomea1325 abundanta1382 plenteousa1382 copiousc1384 plentifula1400 ranka1400 aboundc1425 affluentc1425 aboundable?1440 seedy1440 manyfulc1450 ample1472 olda1500 richa1500 flowing1526 fertilent1535 wallingc1540 copy1546 abounding1560 fat1563 numbrous1566 good, great store1569 round1592 redundant1594 fruitful1604 cornucopian1609 much1609 plenty?a1610 pukka1619 redundant1621 uberant1622 swelling1628 uberous1633 numerousa1635 superfluent1648 full tide1649 lucky1649 redounding1667 numerose1692 bumper1836 prolific1890 proliferous1915 1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection iii. sig. OOii Sensualite with all her flowing voluptuous desyres. 1623 W. Shakespeare & J. Fletcher Henry VIII ii. iii. 62 The Kings Maiesty..Doe's purpose honour to you no lesse flowing, Then Marchionesse of Pembrooke. View more context for this quotation 1644 J. Milton Of Educ. 3 Fat contentions, and flowing fees. a1719 J. Addison Dialogues Medals in Wks. (1721) I. ii. 474 Horace..speaks of the moderation to be used in a flowing fortune. 1787 R. Burns Poems (new ed.) 83 All-chearing Plenty, with her flowing horn. 1871 S. Smiles Character ii. 49 She was full of joyous flowing mother-wit. 7. flowing hope n. mispron. of forlorn hope. ΚΠ 1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Flowing-hope: see Forlorn Hope. 1889 in A. Barrère & C. G. Leland Dict. Slang Derivatives ˈflowingly adv. in a flowing manner. ΚΠ a1603 T. Cartwright Confut. Rhemists New Test. (1618) 432 Not..so flowingly by some, as by all the pipes of the Churches exercises. 1804 R. Southey in J. W. Robberds Mem. W. Taylor (1843) I. 495 It more flowingly fills the sentence. 1880 G. Meredith Tragic Comedians II. iii. 34 When the letters were unimportant, she wrote flowingly. ˈflowingness n. the quality or state of being flowing. ΚΠ a1712 W. Nicholls Def. Doctr. Church of Eng. (1715) Introd. 118 The..flowingness of his easie Eloquence. 1852 H. Spencer Gracefulness in Ess. (1891) II. 384 A leading trait of grace is continuity, flowingness. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.c950adj.a1000
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