flow vb. (pa. pple. once “flown” All'sW. II. i. 142)
1.
to circulate
Meas. I. iii. 52
“Lord Angelo . . .
scarce confesses That his blood
f-s,”
Cym. III. iii. 93
“The princely blood
flows in his cheek.”
2.
“flow over,” overflow
Ant. V. ii. 24.
3.
fig. to issue (“from” a source)
Per. IV. iii. 27
“he did not From
honourable sources”
; cf.
All'sW. II. i. 142
“great floods have flown
From simple sources.”
4.
(of the sea, &c.) to rise and advance
AYL. II. vii. 72
“Doth it”
(sc. pride) “not as hugely as
the sea.”
5.
to rise and overflow
(fig.)
Troil. V. ii. 39
“You to great
distraction.”
6.
to overflow with
tears H8 Prol. 4, Cor. V. iii.
99,
Sonn. xxx. 5
“an eye, unus'd to
flow.”
7.
to abound “in,” overflow “with”
Ado IV. i. 251,
Wint. V. i. 102
“your verse F-'d with
her beauty once,”
Rom. II. iv. 42
“the numbers that
Petrarch flowed in.”
