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.
6. To hang loose and waving; as, a flowing mantle; flowing
locks.
The imperial purple flowing in his train. --A.
Hamilton.
7. To rise, as the tide; -- opposed to ebb; as, the tide
flows twice in twenty-four hours.
The river hath thrice flowed, no ebb between.
--Shak.
8. To discharge blood in excess from the uterus.
{Flowing battery} (Elec.), a battery which is kept constant
by the flowing of the exciting liquid through the cell or
cells. --Knight.
{Flowing furnace}, a furnace from which molten metal, can be
drawn, as through a tap hole; a foundry cupola.
{Flowing sheet} (Naut.), a sheet when eased off, or loosened
to the wind, as when the wind is abaft the beam. --Totten.