Flow

imp. sing. of Fly, v. i.

To move with a continual change of place among the particles or parts, as a fluid; to change place or circulate, as a liquid; as, rivers flow from springs and lakes; tears flow from the eyes.

To become liquid; to melt.

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

To glide along smoothly, without harshness or asperties; as, a flowing period; flowing numbers; to sound smoothly to the ear; to be uttered easily.

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

To hang loose and waving; as, a flowing mantle; flowing locks.

To rise, as the tide; -- opposed to ebb; as, the tide flows twice in twenty-four hours.

To discharge blood in excess from the uterus.

To cover with water or other liquid; to overflow; to inundate; to flood.

To cover with varnish.

A stream of water or other fluid; a current; as, a flow of water; a flow of blood.

A continuous movement of something abundant; as, a flow of words.

Any gentle, gradual movement or procedure of thought, diction, music, or the like, resembling the quiet, steady movement of a river; a stream.

The tidal setting in of the water from the ocean to the shore. See Ebb and flow, under Ebb.

A low-lying piece of watery land; -- called also flow moss and flow bog.

the amount of fluid that flows in a given time

the monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of nonpregnant women from puberty to menopause; "the women were sickly and subject to excessive menstruation"; "a woman does not take the gout unless her menses be stopped" - Hippocrates; "the semen begins to appear in males and to be emitted at the same time of life that the catamenia begin to flow in females" - Aristotle

the motion characteristic of fluids (liquids or gases)