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Ablow vs Aflow - What's the difference?

ablow | aflow |

As an adjective ablow

is blossoming, blooming, in blossom.

As a preposition ablow

is below.

As an adverb aflow is

flowing.

ablow

English

Etymology 1

From .

Adjective

(-)
  • (obsolete, postpositive) Blossoming, blooming, in blossom.
  • * 1867 , , “Lota”, in A Woman Sold and Other Poems , ] Macmillan and Co., [http://books.google.com/books?id=Xjfi8f0_XNYC&pg=PA238&dq=ablow page 238:
    • “ The flower breaks from its sheath and is ablow
    And gives its richest perfumes.”  And I’d muse,
  • * 1891 , , “Hallowmas” (poem), in A Handful of Lavender , ] Houghton, Mifflin and Company, [http://books.google.com/books?id=aelxXq8zG-EC&pg=PA13&dq=ablow page 13:
    • You know, the year's not always May —
    Oh, once the lilacs were ablow  !
  • * 1989 , Stephen L. Swynn, Garden Wisdom: Or, from One Generation to Another , Ayer Publishing, ISBN 0836905024, page 110:
  • (dated, postpositive) Blowing or being blown; windy.
    • Usage notes
    * Like most adjectives formed from this sense of (a-), (term) never serves as an attributive premodifier; one can say “the flowers were ablow”, “ablow, the flowers the ablow flowers”.

    Etymology 2

    Preposition

    (English prepositions)
  • (Scotland) Below.

    • aflow

    English

    Adverb

    (-)
  • flowing
    • Their founts aflow with tears. — Robert Browning.
    (Webster 1913)