2. To become liquid; to melt.

The mountains flowed down at thy presence.

Is. lxiv. 3.

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

economy.

Those thousand decencies that daily flow From all her words and

actions.

Milton.

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.

Virgil is sweet and flowingin his hexameters.

Dryden.

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

over; to be copious.

In that day . . . the hills shall flow with milk.

Joel iii. 18.

The exhilaration of a night that needed not the influence of the

flowing bowl.

Prof. Wilson.

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