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Flooding :: Flooding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Floo.

Nilometer :: Nilometer (n.) An instrument for measuring the rise of water in the Nile during its periodical flood.

Eagre :: Eagre (n.) A wave, or two or three successive waves, of great height and violence, at flood tide moving up an estuary or river; -- commonly called the bore. See Bore..

Tide :: Tide (prep.) A stream; current; flood; as, a tide of blood..

Sluice :: Sluice (v. t.) To emit by, or as by, flood gates..

Floodage :: Floodage (n.) Inundation.

Flashing :: Flashing (n.) The creation of an artifical flood by the sudden letting in of a body of water; -- called also flushing.

Pearly :: Pearly (a.) Resembling pearl or pearls; clear; pure; transparent; iridescent; as, the pearly dew or flood..

Sweep :: Sweep (n.) The compass of anything flowing or brushing; as, the flood carried away everything within its sweep..

Water-bound :: Water-bound (a.) Prevented by a flood from proceeding.

Torrent :: Torrent (n.) Fig.: A violent or rapid flow; a strong current; a flood; as, a torrent of vices; a torrent of eloquence..

Flash :: Flash (v. i.) To break forth, as a sudden flood of light; to burst instantly and brightly on the sight; to show a momentary brilliancy; to come or pass like a flash..

Fresh :: Fresh (n.) The mingling of fresh water with salt in rivers or bays, as by means of a flood of fresh water flowing toward or into the sea..

Bore :: Bore (n.) A tidal flood which regularly or occasionally rushes into certain rivers of peculiar configuration or location, in one or more waves which present a very abrupt front of considerable height, dangerous to shipping, as at the mouth of the Amazon, in South America, the Hoogly and Indus, in India, and the Tsien-tang, in China..

Broad :: Broad (n.) The spread of a river into a sheet of water; a flooded fen.

Waterflood :: Waterflood (n.) A flood of water; an inundation.

Antediluvial :: Antediluvial (a.) Before the flood, or Deluge, in Noah's time..

Cataclysm :: Cataclysm (n.) An extensive overflow or sweeping flood of water; a deluge.

Flush :: Flush (v. t.) To cause to be full; to flood; to overflow; to overwhelm with water; as, to flush the meadows; to flood for the purpose of cleaning; as, to flush a sewer..

Spate :: Spate (n.) A river flood; an overflow or inundation.

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