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§128; §264; §519;
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  • Fleów

    fluxit, decurrit, manavit,

    flówen

    fluitent,

    flówendum

    fluido, i. fluenti,

    • Wrt. Voc. ii. 149, 70, 64, 63.
to flow as a stream in its bed, or a fluid over a surface:
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  • Þín blód fléwþ ofer eorðan swá swá wæter,

    • Bl. H. 237, 6
      • .

  • Flóweð (fléweð, v.l.) seó eá betwyh

    interfluente amne,

    • Bd. 5, 2
      • ;
    • Sch. 556, 5
      • .

  • Þæt hnesce and flówende wæter.

    • Bt. 33, 4
      • ;
    • F. 130, 3.

  • Mid flówendum teárum,

    • Hml. S. 3, 626
      • .
to be or become fluid
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  • Weax þe fleúwð ł melteþ

    caera quae fluit,

    • Ps. L. 57, 9
      • .

  • Flýwð,

    • 67, 3.
fig.:
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  • Þæt deáde flǽsc rotað leahtorlíce, þonne se deádlica líchama ðeówað þǽre flówendan

    (fluid, and so capable of rotting ?)

    gálnysse, swá swá se wítega be sumum cwæð: 'Ðá nýtenu forrotedon on heora meoxe,'

    • Hml. Th. i. ii 8, 14
      • .
of persons,
to resort in great numbers, come or go in streams
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  • Þá him fleówon tó forwel menige,

    • Hml. Th. ii. 158, 30
      • .
of (immaterial) things,
to pass away, be transitory
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  • Se wlite þæs líchoman is swíþe fliónde (flówende, v.l.)

    formae nitor rapidus est.

    • Bt. 32, 2
      • ;
    • F. 116, 17.
to issue from a source
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  • Ðanon fléwð eallum mildheortnys and gifu,

    • Hml. Th. i. 448, 2
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  • Of his innoðe fleówð líflic wæter . . . þæt wæter þe of ðám stáne fleów,

    • ii. 274a 4-9

  • Of his sídan út fleów blód and wæter samod,

    • 360, 12
      • .

  • Hé eft cymþ tó þám ilcan ǽwelme þe hé ǽr út fleów,

    • Bt. 24, l
      • ;
    • F. 80, 27
      • .

  • Ðæt of ðǽm innoðum á libbendu wætru fleówen,

    • Past. 467, 30
      • .
to flow (opposed to to ebb)
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  • Seó sǽ symle feówer prican oððe fíf lator flówð. Ðonne se móna úp áríst, þonne ongiuð seó sǽtó flówanne,

    • Angl. viii. 327, 27
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  • Fléwð,

    • Lch. iii. 268, 16
      • .
to be flooded, be covered with a fluid
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  • Oft of ðinnum rénscúrum fléwð seó eorðe,

    • Hml. Th. ii. 466, 8
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  • Hé bát his tungan þæt heó on blóde fleów

    he bit his tongue, so that it was bathed in blood,

    • 312, 25
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  • Feól sum preóst of þám weorce, swá ꝥ hé sámcucu læg . . . and fleów eall blóde,

    • Hml. S. 6, 165
      • .
to flow with.
of a stream, where the material of the stream is given
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  • Ðeáh ðe him ealle streámas hunige fleówan,

    • Sal. K. p. 86, 4
      • .
of other things,
to abound
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  • Tó gódan lande, þæt ðe fleówð mid meolce and mid hunige,

    • Hml. Th. ii. 192, 8
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  • Flówendre (blówendre?)

    praepollenti, i. florenti (gazarum affluentia),

    • An. Ox. 3602
      • .
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v. ge-flówan; eft-, fiþer-, singal-, tó-flówende.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “flówan.” In An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary Online, edited by Thomas Northcote Toller, Christ Sean, and Ondřej Tichy. Prague: Faculty of Arts, Charles University, 2014. https://bosworthtoller.com/45284.

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