Word Meanings - PROFLUENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Flowing forward, "In the profluent stream." Milton.

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• FLOWERY-KIRTLED
  Dressed with garlands of flowers. Milton.
• FLOWER-DE-LUCE
  A genus of perennial herbs with swordlike leaves and large three-petaled flowers often of very gay colors, but probably white in the plant first chosen for the royal French emblem. Note: There are nearly one hundred species, natives of the north
• FLOWERY
  1. Full of flowers; abounding with blossoms. 2. Highly embellished with figurative language; florid; as, a flowery style. Milton. The flowery kingdom, China.
• FLOWERLESSNESS
  State of being without flowers.
• FLOWERLESS
  Having no flowers. Flowerless plants, plants which have no true flowers, and produce no seeds; cryptigamous plants.
• STREAMLET
  A small stream; a rivulet; a rill.
• FLOWERPOT
  A vessel, commonly or earthenware, for earth in which plants are grown.
• FLOWERINESS
  The state of being flowery.
• STREAM WHEEL
  A wheel used for measuring, by its motion when submerged, the velocity of flowing water; a current wheel.
• FORWARDLY
  Eagerly; hastily; obtrusively.
• FORWARD
  An agreement; a covenant; a promise. Tell us a tale anon, as forward is. Chaucer.
• STREAM CLOCK
  An instrument for ascertaining the velocity of the blood in a vessel.
• FLOW
  imp. sing. of Fly, v. i. Chaucer.
• FORWARDNESS
  The quality of being forward; cheerful readiness; promtness; as, the forwardness of Christians in propagating the gospel. 2. An advanced stage of progress or of preparation; advancement; as, his measures were in great forwardness. Robertson. 3.
• STREAM LINE
  The path of a constituent particle of a flowing fluid undisturbed by eddies or the like.
• FLOWAGE
  An overflowing with water; also, the water which thus overflows.
• STREAMLINE
  Of or pert. to a stream line; designating a motion or flow that is free from turbulence, like that of a particle in a streamline; hence, designating a surface, body, etc., that is designed so as to afford an unbroken flow of a fluid about it, esp.
• PROFLUENT
  Flowing forward, "In the profluent stream." Milton.
• FLOWERAGE
  State of flowers; flowers, collectively or in general. Tennyson.
• FORWARDER
  One employed in forwarding. (more info) 1. One who forwards or promotes; a promoter. Udall. 2. One who sends forward anything; one who transmits goods; a forwarding merchant.
• OVERFLOWINGLY
  In great abundance; exuberantly. Boyle.
• WINDFLOWER
  The anemone; -- so called because formerly supposed to open only when the wind was blowing. See Anemone.
• CAULIFLOWER
  An annual variety of Brassica oleracea, or cabbage of which the cluster of young flower stalks and buds is eaten as a vegetable. 2. The edible head or "curd" of a caulifower plant. (more info) caulis, and by E. flower; F. chou cabbage is fr. L.
• MAYFLOWER
  In England, the hawthorn; in New England, the trailing arbutus ; also, the blossom of these plants.
• UNFLOWER
  To strip of flowers. G. Fletcher.
• UPSTREAM
  Toward the higher part of a stream; against the current.
• GLOBEFLOWER
  A plant of the genus Trollius , found in the mountainous parts of Europe, and producing handsome globe-shaped flowers. The American plant Trollius laxus. Japan globeflower. See Corchorus.
• INFLOW
  To flow in. Wiseman.
• BALL-FLOWER
  An ornament resembling a ball placed in a circular flower, the petals of which form a cup round it, -- usually inserted in a hollow molding.
• OVERFLOWING
  An overflow; that which overflows; exuberance; copiousness. He was ready to bestow the overflowings of his full mind on anybody who would start a subject. Macaulay.
• AFLOW
  Flowing. Their founts aflow with tears. R. Browning.
• DISTREAM
  To flow. Yet o'er that virtuous blush distreams a tear. Shenstone.
• THREE-FLOWERED
  Bearing three flowers together, or only three flowers.