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flow | aestiferous |

As a noun flow

is a movement in people or things with a particular way in large numbers or amounts.

As a verb flow

is to move as a fluid from one position to another.

As an adjective aestiferous is

(obsolete|not comparable) “turbulent]] as the tide”; “ebbing and flowing as the tide”an universal etymological english dictionary'' by [[w:nathan bailey|nathan bailey (1731), [http://booksgooglecouk/books?id=o-giaaaaqaaj&pg=pt28&dq=%22ebbing+and+flowing+as+the+tide%22&ei=-ooosuoeiafuygtlkuhcbw#v=onepage&q=%22ebbing%20and%20flowing%20as%20the%20tide%22&f=false page 28]
Æstiʹferous [''æstifer
, l] ebbing and flowing as the tide
.

flow

English

Noun

  • A movement in people or things with a particular way in large numbers or amounts
  • The movement of a real or figurative fluid.
  • *
  • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=4 , passage=Mr. Cooke at once began a tirade against the residents of Asquith for permitting a sandy and generally disgraceful condition of the roads. So roundly did he vituperate the inn management in particular, and with such a loud flow of words, that I trembled lest he should be heard on the veranda.}}
  • The rising movement of the tide.
  • Smoothness or continuity.
  • The amount of a fluid that moves or the rate of fluid movement.
  • (psychology) The state of being at one with.
  • Menstruation fluid
  • Antonyms

    * (movement of the tide) ebb

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To move as a fluid from one position to another.
  • Rivers flow from springs and lakes.
    Tears flow from the eyes.
  • To proceed; to issue forth.
  • Wealth flows from industry and economy.
  • * Milton
  • Those thousand decencies that daily flow / From all her words and actions.
  • To move or match smoothly, gracefully, or continuously.
  • The writing is grammatically correct, but it just doesn't flow .
  • * Dryden
  • Virgil is sweet and flowing in his hexameters.
  • To have or be in abundance; to abound, so as to run or flow over.
  • * Bible, Joel iii. 18
  • In that day the hills shall flow with milk.
  • * Prof. Wilson
  • the exhilaration of a night that needed not the influence of the flowing bowl
  • To hang loosely and wave.
  • a flowing''' mantle; '''flowing locks
  • * A. Hamilton
  • the imperial purple flowing in his train
  • To rise, as the tide; opposed to ebb .
  • The tide flows twice in twenty-four hours.
  • * Shakespeare
  • The river hath thrice flowed , no ebb between.
  • (computing) To arrange (text in a wordprocessor, etc.) so that it wraps neatly into a designated space; to reflow.
  • To cover with water or other liquid; to overflow; to inundate; to flood.
  • To cover with varnish.
  • To discharge excessive blood from the uterus.
  • Anagrams

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    aestiferous

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (archaic) * estiferous

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (obsolete, not comparable) “Turbulent]] as the tide”; “ebbing and flowing as the tide”.An Universal Etymological English Dictionary'' by [[w:Nathan Bailey, Nathan Bailey (1731), page 28]
    ÆSTI?FEROUS [''æstifer
    , L. ebbing and flowing as the tide.
  • * 1859 : John D. Bryant, M. D., Redemption, a Poem , page 241 (John Penington & Son)
  • Thus they, estiferous , the hollow sphere
    Within, rack’d, and raged against the Highest.
  • (comparable, chiefly, used figuratively) Producing much (aestival) heat.
  • * 1979 : J. Ron Stanfield, Economic Thought and Social Change , page 148 (Southern Illinois University Press; ISBN 0809309149, 9780809309146)
  • Moreover, if the analogy to political revolution teaches anything at all, its instruction would seem to be that revolution is a wasteful and excessively estiferous process.

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