Flowed

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Flow \Flow\ (fl[=o]), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Flowed} (fl[=o]d); p.
     pr. & vb. n. {Flowing}.] [AS. fl[=o]wan; akin to D. vloeijen,
     OHG. flawen to wash, Icel. fl[=o]a to deluge, Gr. plw`ein to
     float, sail, and prob. ultimately to E. float, fleet.
     [root]80. Cf. {Flood}.]
     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.
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     2. To become liquid; to melt.
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              The mountains flowed down at thy presence. --Is.
                                                    lxiv. 3.
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     3. To proceed; to issue forth; as, wealth flows from industry
        and economy.
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              Those thousand decencies that daily flow
              From all her words and actions.       --Milton.
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     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.
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              Virgil is sweet and flowingin his hexameters.
                                                    --Dryden.
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     5. To have or be in abundance; to abound; to full, so as to
        run or flow over; to be copious.
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              In that day . . . the hills shall flow with milk.
                                                    --Joel iii.
                                                    18.
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              The exhilaration of a night that needed not the
              influence of the flowing bowl.        --Prof.
                                                    Wilson.
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     6. To hang loose and waving; as, a flowing mantle; flowing
        locks.
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              The imperial purple flowing in his train. --A.
                                                    Hamilton.
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     7. To rise, as the tide; -- opposed to ebb; as, the tide
        flows twice in twenty-four hours.
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              The river hath thrice flowed, no ebb between.
                                                    --Shak.
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     8. To discharge blood in excess from the uterus.
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