† fluxuren.
/ˈflʌksjʊə/ Obsolete.
a. The quality of being fluid; fluidity.
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the world > matter > liquid > [noun] > quality or condition of being
liquor1477
liquidness1530
fluxure1600
fluidity1605
liquidity1620
fluidnessa1631
runnability1920
1600 B. Jonson Every Man out of his Humor Induct. sig. Biiv Why Humor..in it selfe holds these two properties, Moisture and Fluxure . View more context for this quotation
b. concrete. That which flows; a quantity of fluid matter; sap.
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the world > matter > liquid > [noun]
liquor?c1225
aquaa1398
moisture?1406
subtilesa1598
fluxure1603
aq.1639
fluor1654
fluid1661
liquid1708
1603 M. Drayton Barrons Wars ii. xv. 29 The swolne fluxure of the clouds.
1607 M. Drayton Legend Cromwel 40 As in the corne the fluxure when we see Fill but the straw when it should feed the eare.
1622 M. Drayton 2nd Pt. Poly-olbion xxvii. 136 A soft and sappy Gum..which like a Ielly first To the beholder seeme, then by the fluxure nurst, Still great and greater thriue.
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