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Flowing forward, "In the profluent stream." Milton.

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  • FLOWERY-KIRTLED
    Dressed with garlands of flowers. Milton.
  • FLOWER-DE-LUCE
    A genus of perennial herbs 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. Note: There are nearly one hundred species, natives of the north
  • FLOWERY
    1. Full of flowers; abounding with blossoms. 2. Highly embellished with figurative language; florid; as, a flowery style. Milton. The flowery kingdom, China.
  • FLOWERLESSNESS
    State of being without flowers.
  • FLOWERLESS
    Having no flowers. Flowerless plants, plants which have no true flowers, and produce no seeds; cryptigamous plants.
  • STREAMLET
    A small stream; a rivulet; a rill.
  • FLOWERPOT
    A vessel, commonly or earthenware, for earth in which plants are grown.
  • FLOWERINESS
    The state of being flowery.
  • STREAM WHEEL
    A wheel used for measuring, by its motion when submerged, the velocity of flowing water; a current wheel.
  • FORWARDLY
    Eagerly; hastily; obtrusively.
  • FORWARD
    An agreement; a covenant; a promise. Tell us a tale anon, as forward is. Chaucer.
  • STREAM CLOCK
    An instrument for ascertaining the velocity of the blood in a vessel.
  • FLOW
    imp. sing. of Fly, v. i. Chaucer.
  • FORWARDNESS
    The quality of being forward; cheerful readiness; promtness; as, the forwardness of Christians in propagating the gospel. 2. An advanced stage of progress or of preparation; advancement; as, his measures were in great forwardness. Robertson. 3.
  • STREAM LINE
    The path of a constituent particle of a flowing fluid undisturbed by eddies or the like.
  • FLOWAGE
    An overflowing with water; also, the water which thus overflows.
  • STREAMLINE
    Of or pert. to a stream line; designating a motion or flow that is free from turbulence, like that of a particle in a streamline; hence, designating a surface, body, etc., that is designed so as to afford an unbroken flow of a fluid about it, esp.
  • PROFLUENT
    Flowing forward, "In the profluent stream." Milton.
  • FLOWERAGE
    State of flowers; flowers, collectively or in general. Tennyson.
  • FORWARDER
    One employed in forwarding. (more info) 1. One who forwards or promotes; a promoter. Udall. 2. One who sends forward anything; one who transmits goods; a forwarding merchant.
  • OVERFLOWINGLY
    In great abundance; exuberantly. Boyle.
  • WINDFLOWER
    The anemone; -- so called because formerly supposed to open only when the wind was blowing. See Anemone.
  • CAULIFLOWER
    An annual variety of Brassica oleracea, or cabbage of which the cluster of young flower stalks and buds is eaten as a vegetable. 2. The edible head or "curd" of a caulifower plant. (more info) caulis, and by E. flower; F. chou cabbage is fr. L.
  • MAYFLOWER
    In England, the hawthorn; in New England, the trailing arbutus ; also, the blossom of these plants.
  • UNFLOWER
    To strip of flowers. G. Fletcher.
  • UPSTREAM
    Toward the higher part of a stream; against the current.
  • GLOBEFLOWER
    A plant of the genus Trollius , found in the mountainous parts of Europe, and producing handsome globe-shaped flowers. The American plant Trollius laxus. Japan globeflower. See Corchorus.
  • INFLOW
    To flow in. Wiseman.
  • BALL-FLOWER
    An ornament resembling a ball placed in a circular flower, the petals of which form a cup round it, -- usually inserted in a hollow molding.
  • OVERFLOWING
    An overflow; that which overflows; exuberance; copiousness. He was ready to bestow the overflowings of his full mind on anybody who would start a subject. Macaulay.
  • AFLOW
    Flowing. Their founts aflow with tears. R. Browning.
  • DISTREAM
    To flow. Yet o'er that virtuous blush distreams a tear. Shenstone.
  • THREE-FLOWERED
    Bearing three flowers together, or only three flowers.

 

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