Flood anchor (Naut.) , the anchor by which a ship is held while the
tide is rising. -- Flood fence, a fence so secured that it will not be
swept away by a flood. -- Flood gate, a gate for shutting out,
admitting, or releasing, a body of water; a tide gate. -- Flood mark,
the mark or line to which the tide, or a flood, rises; high-water mark.
-- Flood tide, the rising tide; -- opposed to ebb tide. -- The Flood,
the deluge in the days of Noah.
Flood, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Flooded; p. pr. & vb. n. Flooding.] 1. To
overflow; to inundate; to deluge; as, the swollen river flooded the
valley.
2. To cause or permit to be inundated; to fill or cover with water or
other fluid; as, to flood arable land for irrigation; to fill to excess
or to its full capacity; as, to flood a country with a depreciated
currency.
Flood"age (?; 48), n. Inundation. [R.] Carlyle.
Flood"er (?), n. One who floods anything.
Flood"ing, n. The filling or covering with water or other fluid;
overflow; inundation; the filling anything to excess.
2. (Med.) An abnormal or excessive discharge of blood from the uterus.
Dunglison.
Flook (?), n. A fluke of an anchor.
{ Flook"an (?), Flu"kan (?) }, n. (Mining) See Flucan.
Flook"y (?), a. Fluky.
Floor (?), n. [AS. fl&?;r; akin to D. vloer, G. flur field, floor,
entrance hall, Icel. fl&?;r floor of a cow stall, cf. Ir. & Gael. lar
floor, ground, earth, W. llawr, perh. akin to L. planus level. Cf.
Plain smooth.] 1. The bottom or lower part of any room; the part upon
which we stand and upon which the movables in the room are supported.
2. The structure formed of beams, girders, etc., with proper covering,
which divides a building horizontally into stories. Floor in sense 1
is, then, the upper surface of floor in sense 2.
3. The surface, or the platform, of a structure on which we walk or
travel; as, the floor of a bridge.