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1429 in W. G. Benham Red Paper Bk. Colchester (1902) 54 (MED) Betwyx wich lordshipe and the towne of Colchestre is a ryver that floweth and refloweth.

?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1865) I. 425 There is lytelle welle..whiche dothe not floo and refloo in the maner of a see, but otherwhile water habundethe there.

1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde iii. vi. f. 119 They see the seas by increase and decrease, to flowe and reflowe.

1589 A. Fleming tr. Virgil Georgiks iv. 71 in A. Fleming tr. Virgil Bucoliks At creekes reflowing, past the which the water cannot go.

?a1645 W. Browne in Whole Wks. i. 133 Isis the glory of the Westerne world…Why doe not now Her waues reflow?

1675 E. Sherburne tr. M. Manilius Sphere 23 But as the Air mov'd in a Circle goes, And on it self, whence first it flow'd, reflows.

1776 J. Burrow Rep. Court King's Bench 4 2163 It is said that the king has a right, as high as the sea flows and reflows.

a1790 W. Elstobb Hist. Acct. Bedford Level (1793) 270 It..describes the manner in which the tides and ebbs operate upon the marshes, over which they flow and reflow.

1810 G. Crabbe Borough i. 11 The Billows..strike with furious force, And then re-flowing, take their grating course.

a1880 J. Brougham Message from Sea (1883) ii. iv Cannot the time be brought back? The tide that has ebbed reflows.

1917 Virginia Law Rev. 4 593 If the sea overflowed land and later reflowed again the land still belonged to the original owner..although it remained submerged forty years.

a1950 W. R. Benét Spirit of Scene (1951) 11 The corpse of the floor of ocean laid bare with ebb to the sight knows not, nor the neap reflowing filled with no voice of his own.

1998 Internat. Angiol. 17 49 We evaluated the levels of the inhibitor of elastase..in the blood reflowing from affected superficial veins of legs both at rest and after prolonged venous stasis.