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  • English Word Flourishingly Definition In a flourishing manner; ostentatiously.
  • English Word Floury Definition Of or resembling flour; mealy; covered with flour.
  • English Word Flout Definition To mock or insult; to treat with contempt.
  • English Word Flout Definition To practice mocking; to behave with contempt; to sneer; to fleer; -- often with at.
  • English Word Flout Definition A mock; an insult.
  • English Word Flouted Definition of Flout
  • English Word Flouter Definition One who flouts; a mocker.
  • English Word Flouting Definition of Flout
  • English Word Floutingly Definition With flouting; insultingly; as, to treat a lover floutingly.
  • English Word Flow Definition imp. sing. of Fly, v. i.
  • English Word Flow Definition 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.
  • English Word Flow Definition To become liquid; to melt.
  • English Word Flow Definition To proceed; to issue forth; as, wealth flows from industry and economy.
  • English Word Flow Definition To glide along smoothly, without harshness or asperties; as, a flowing period; flowing numbers; to sound smoothly to the ear; to be uttered easily.
  • English Word Flow Definition To have or be in abundance; to abound; to full, so as to run or flow over; to be copious.
  • English Word Flow Definition To hang loose and waving; as, a flowing mantle; flowing locks.
  • English Word Flow Definition To rise, as the tide; -- opposed to ebb; as, the tide flows twice in twenty-four hours.
  • English Word Flow Definition To discharge blood in excess from the uterus.
  • English Word Flow Definition To cover with water or other liquid; to overflow; to inundate; to flood.
  • English Word Flow Definition To cover with varnish.
  • English Word Flow Definition A stream of water or other fluid; a current; as, a flow of water; a flow of blood.
  • English Word Flow Definition A continuous movement of something abundant; as, a flow of words.
  • English Word Flow Definition Any gentle, gradual movement or procedure of thought, diction, music, or the like, resembling the quiet, steady movement of a river; a stream.
  • English Word Flow Definition The tidal setting in of the water from the ocean to the shore. See Ebb and flow, under Ebb.
  • English Word Flow Definition A low-lying piece of watery land; -- called also flow moss and flow bog.
  • English Word Flowage Definition An overflowing with water; also, the water which thus overflows.
  • English Word Flowed Definition of Flow
  • English Word Flowen Definition imp. pl. of Fly, v. i.
  • English Word Flower Definition 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.
  • English Word Flower Definition 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.