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Flow [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. A stream of water or other fluid; a current; as a flow of water; a flow of blood.

2. A current of water with a swell or rise; as the flow and ebb of tides.

3. A stream of any thing; as a flow of wealth into the country.

4. Abundance; copiousness with action; as a flow of spirits.

5. A stream of diction, denoting abundance of words at command and facility of speaking; volubility.

6. Free expression or communication of generous feelings and sentiments.

7. The feast of reason, and the flow of soul.

Flow [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To move along an inclined plane, or on descending ground, by the operation of gravity, and with a continual change of place among the particles or parts, as a fluid. A solid body descends or moves in mass, as a ball or a wheel; but in the flowing of liquid substances, and others consisting of very fine particles, there is a constant change of the relative position of some parts of the substance, as in the case with a stream of water, of quicksilver, and of sand. Particles at the bottom and sides of the stream, being somewhat checked by friction, move slower than those in the middle and near the surface of the current. Rivers flow from springs and lakes; tears flow from the eyes.

2. To melt; to become liquid.

3. That the mountains might flow down at they presence.

4. Isaiah 64:1 .

5. To proceed; to issue. Evils flow from different sources. Wealth flows from industry and economy. All our blessings flow from divine bounty

6. To abound; to have in abundance.

7. In that day the mountains shall drop down new wine, and the hills shall flow with milk. Joel 3:18 .

8. To be full; to be copious; as flowing cups or goblets.

9. To glide along smoothly, without harshness or asperity; as a flowing period; flowing numbers.

10. To be smooth, as composition or utterance. The orator has a flowing tongue.

11. Virgil is sweet and flowing in his hexameters.

12. To hang loose and waving; as a flowing mantle; flowing locks.

13. The imperial purple flowing in his train.

14. To rise, as the tide; opposed to ebb. The tide flows twice in twenty four hours.

15. To move in the arteries and veins of the body; to circulate, as blood.

16. To issue, as rays or beams of light.

17. Light flows from the sun.

18. To move in a stream, as air.

Flow [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

To cover with water; to overflow; to inundate. The low grounds along the river are annually flowed.

Flow Webster's Dictionary 1913

imp. sing. of Fly, v. i.

Flow [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. A stream of water or other fluid; a current; as, a flow of water; a flow of blood.

2. A continuous movement of something abundant; as, a flow of words.

3. Any gentle, gradual movement or procedure of thought, diction, music, or the like, resembling the quiet, steady movement of a river; a stream.

4. The tidal setting in of the water from the ocean to the shore. See Ebb and flow, under Ebb.

5. A low-lying piece of watery land; -- called also flow moss and flow bog.

Flow [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To move with a continual change of place among the particles or parts, as a fluid; to change place or circulate, as a liquid; as, rivers flow from springs and lakes; tears flow from the eyes.

2. To become liquid; to melt.

3. To proceed; to issue forth; as, wealth flows from industry and economy.

4. To glide along smoothly, without harshness or asperties; as, a flowing period; flowing numbers; to sound smoothly to the ear; to be uttered easily.

5. To have or be in abundance; to abound; to full, so as to run or flow over; to be copious.

6. To hang loose and waving; as, a flowing mantle; flowing locks.

7. To rise, as the tide; -- opposed to ebb; as, the tide flows twice in twenty-four hours.

8. To discharge blood in excess from the uterus.

Flow [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To cover with water or other liquid; to overflow; to inundate; to flood.

2. To cover with varnish.

Flowage [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

An overflowing with water; also, the water which thus overflows.

Flowed [Participle passive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Overflowed; inundated.

Flowed [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Flowen Webster's Dictionary 1913

imp. pl. of Fly, v. i.

Flower [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. In botany, that part of a plant which contains the organs of fructification, with their coverings. A flower when complete, consists of a calyx, corol, stamen and pistil; but the essential parts are the anther and stigma, which are sufficient to constitute a flower either together in hermaphrodite flowers, or separate in male and female flowers.

2. In vulgar acceptation, a blossom or flower is the flower bud of a plant, when the petals are expanded; open petals being considered as the principal thing in constituting a flower But in botany, the petals are now considered as a finer sort of covering, and not at all necessary to constitute a flower

3. The early part of life, or rather of manhood; the prime; youthful vigor; youth; as the flower of age or of life.

4. The best or finest part of a thing; the most valuable part. The most active and vigorous part of an army are called the flower of the troops. Young, vigorous and brave men are called the flower of a nation.

5. The finest part; the essence.

6. The choice and flower of all things profitable the Psalms do more briefly contain.

7. He or that which is most distinguished for any thing valuable. We say, the youth are the flower of the country.

8. The finest part of grain pulverized. In this sense, it is now always written flour, which see.

9. Flowers, in chimistry, fine particles of bodies, especially when raised by fire in sublimation, and adhering to the heads of vessels in the form of a powder or mealy substance; as the flowers of sulphur.

10. A substance, somewhat similar, formed spontaneously, is called efforescence.

11. In rhetoric, figures and ornaments of discourse or composition.

12. Menstrual discharges.

Flower [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To blossom; to bloom; to expand the petals, as a plant. In New England peach trees usually flower in April, and apple trees in May.

2. To be in the prime and spring of life; to flourish; to be youthful, fresh and vigorous.

3. When flowered my youthful spring.

4. To froth; to ferment gently; to mantle, as new beer.

5. The beer did flower a little.

6. To come as cream from the surface.

Flower [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

To embellish with figures of flowers; to adorn with imitated flowers.

Flower [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. In the popular sense, the bloom or blossom of a plant; the showy portion, usually of a different color, shape, and texture from the foliage.

2. That part of a plant destined to produce seed, and hence including one or both of the sexual organs; an organ or combination of the organs of reproduction, whether inclosed by a circle of foliar parts or not. A complete flower consists of two essential parts, the stamens and the pistil, and two floral envelopes, the corolla and callyx. In mosses the flowers consist of a few special leaves surrounding or subtending organs called archegonia. See Blossom, and Corolla.

3. The fairest, freshest, and choicest part of anything; as, the flower of an army, or of a family; the state or time of freshness and bloom; as, the flower of life, that is, youth.

4. Grain pulverized; meal; flour.

5. A substance in the form of a powder, especially when condensed from sublimation; as, the flowers of sulphur.

6. A figure of speech; an ornament of style.

7. Ornamental type used chiefly for borders around pages, cards, etc.

8. Menstrual discharges.

Flower [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To blossom; to bloom; to expand the petals, as a plant; to produce flowers; as, this plant flowers in June.

2. To come into the finest or fairest condition.

3. To froth; to ferment gently, as new beer.

4. To come off as flowers by sublimation.

Flower [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

To embellish with flowers; to adorn with imitated flowers; as, flowered silk.

Flower-de-lis [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. In heraldry, a bearing representing a lily, the hieroglyphic of royal majesty.

2. In botany, the Iris, a genus of monogynian trianders, called also flag-flower, and often written incorrectly flower-de-luce. The species are numerous.

Flower-de-luce [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A genus of perennial herbs (Iris) with swordlike leaves and large three-petaled flowers often of very gay colors, but probably white in the plant first chosen for the royal French emblem.

Flower-fence [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

The name of certain plants. The flower-fence of Barbados is of the genus Poinciana. The bastard flower-fence is the Adenanthera.

Flower-fence [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A tropical leguminous bush (Poinciana, / Caesalpinia, pulcherrima) with prickly branches, and showy yellow or red flowers; -- so named from its having been sometimes used for hedges in the West Indies.

Flower-garden [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A garden in which flowers are chiefly cultivated.

Flower-gentle [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A plant, the amaranth.

Flower-gentle [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A species of amaranth (Amarantus melancholicus).

Flower-inwoven [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Adorned with flowers.

Flower-kirtled [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Dressed with garlands of flowers.

Flower-stalk [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

In botany, the peduncle of a plant, or the stem that supports the flower or fructification.

Flowerage [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

State of flowers; flowers, collectively or in general.

Flowered [Participle passive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Embellished with figures of flowers.

Flowered [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Flowerer [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A plant which flowers or blossoms.

Floweret [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. A small flower; a floret.

2. [In botany, floret is solely used.]

Floweret [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A small flower; a floret.

Flowerful [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Abounding with flowers.

Floweriness [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. The state of being flowery, or of abounding with flowers.

2. Floridness of speech; abundance of figures.

Floweriness [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

The state of being flowery.

Flowering [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. The season when plants blossom.

2. The act of adorning with flowers.

Flowering [Participle present tense] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Blossoming; blooming; expanding the petals, as plants.

2. Adorning with artificial flowers, or figures of blossoms.

Flowering [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Having conspicuous flowers; -- used as an epithet with many names of plants; as, flowering ash; flowering dogwood; flowering almond, etc.

Flowering [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. The act of blossoming, or the season when plants blossom; florification.

2. The act of adorning with flowers.

Flowering [Present participle and verbal noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Genesis 2:10

And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became into four heads.

Now a river flowed out of Eden to water the garden, and from there it branched into four headwaters:

Exodus 3:8

And I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land unto a good land and a large, unto a land flowing with milk and honey; unto the place of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites.

I have come down to rescue them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land to a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey—the home of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites.

Exodus 3:17

And I have said, I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt unto the land of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, unto a land flowing with milk and honey.

And I have promised to bring you up out of your affliction in Egypt, into the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites—a land flowing with milk and honey.’

Exodus 13:5

And it shall be when the LORD shall bring thee into the land of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, which he sware unto thy fathers to give thee, a land flowing with milk and honey, that thou shalt keep this service in this month.

And when the LORD brings you into the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Hivites, and Jebusites—the land He swore to your fathers that He would give you, a land flowing with milk and honey—you shall keep this service in this month.

Exodus 14:26

And the LORD said unto Moses, Stretch out thine hand over the sea, that the waters may come again upon the Egyptians, upon their chariots, and upon their horsemen.

Then the LORD said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand over the sea, so that the waters may flow back over the Egyptians and their chariots and horsemen.”

Exodus 14:28

And the waters returned, and covered the chariots, and the horsemen, and all the host of Pharaoh that came into the sea after them; there remained not so much as one of them.

The waters flowed back and covered the chariots and horsemen—the entire army of Pharaoh that had chased the Israelites into the sea. Not one of them survived.

Exodus 25:31

And thou shalt make a candlestick of pure gold: of beaten work shall the candlestick be made: his shaft, and his branches, his bowls, his knops, and his flowers, shall be of the same.

Then you are to make a lampstand of pure, hammered gold. It shall be made of one piece, including its base and shaft, its cups, and its buds and petals.

Exodus 25:33

Three bowls made like unto almonds, with a knop and a flower in one branch; and three bowls made like almonds in the other branch, with a knop and a flower: so in the six branches that come out of the candlestick.

There are to be three cups shaped like almond blossoms on the first branch, each with buds and petals, three on the next branch, and the same for all six branches that extend from the lampstand.

Exodus 25:34

And in the candlestick shall be four bowls made like unto almonds, with their knops and their flowers.

And on the lampstand there shall be four cups shaped like almond blossoms with buds and petals.

Exodus 33:3

Unto a land flowing with milk and honey: for I will not go up in the midst of thee; for thou art a stiffnecked people: lest I consume thee in the way.

Go up to a land flowing with milk and honey. But I will not go with you, because you are a stiff-necked people; otherwise, I might destroy you on the way.”

Exodus 37:17

And he made the candlestick of pure gold: of beaten work made he the candlestick; his shaft, and his branch, his bowls, his knops, and his flowers, were of the same:

Then he made the lampstand out of pure hammered gold, all of one piece: its base and shaft, its cups, and its buds and petals.

Exodus 37:19

Three bowls made after the fashion of almonds in one branch, a knop and a flower; and three bowls made like almonds in another branch, a knop and a flower: so throughout the six branches going out of the candlestick.

There were three cups shaped like almond blossoms on the first branch, each with buds and petals, three on the next branch, and the same for all six branches that extended from the lampstand.

Exodus 37:20

And in the candlestick were four bowls made like almonds, his knops, and his flowers:

And on the lampstand were four cups shaped like almond blossoms with buds and petals.

Leviticus 12:7

Who shall offer it before the LORD, and make an atonement for her; and she shall be cleansed from the issue of her blood. This is the law for her that hath born a male or a female.

And the priest will present them before the LORD and make atonement for her; and she shall be ceremonially cleansed from her flow of blood. This is the law for a woman giving birth, whether to a male or to a female.

Leviticus 15:3

And this shall be his uncleanness in his issue: whether his flesh run with his issue, or his flesh be stopped from his issue, it is his uncleanness.

This uncleanness is from his discharge, whether his body allows the discharge to flow or blocks it. So his discharge will bring about uncleanness.

Leviticus 15:24

And if any man lie with her at all, and her flowers be upon him, he shall be unclean seven days; and all the bed whereon he lieth shall be unclean.

If a man lies with her and her menstrual flow touches him, he will be unclean for seven days, and any bed on which he lies will become unclean.

Leviticus 15:33

And of her that is sick of her flowers, and of him that hath an issue, of the man, and of the woman, and of him that lieth with her that is unclean.

of a woman in her menstrual period, of any male or female who has a discharge, and of a man who lies with an unclean woman.’”

Leviticus 20:18

And if a man shall lie with a woman having her sickness, and shall uncover her nakedness; he hath discovered her fountain, and she hath uncovered the fountain of her blood: and both of them shall be cut off from among their people.

If a man lies with a menstruating woman and has sexual relations with her, he has exposed the source of her flow, and she has uncovered the source of her blood. Both of them must be cut off from among their people.

Leviticus 20:24

But I have said unto you, Ye shall inherit their land, and I will give it unto you to possess it, a land that floweth with milk and honey: I am the LORD your God, which have separated you from other people.

But I have told you that you will inherit their land, since I will give it to you as an inheritance—a land flowing with milk and honey. I am the LORD your God, who has set you apart from the peoples.

Numbers 8:4

And this work of the candlestick was of beaten gold, unto the shaft thereof, unto the flowers thereof, was beaten work: according unto the pattern which the LORD had shewed Moses, so he made the candlestick.

This is how the lampstand was constructed: it was made of hammered gold from its base to its blossoms, fashioned according to the pattern the LORD had shown Moses.