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Flash :: Flash (n.) A sudden burst of light; a flood of light instantaneously appearing and disappearing; a momentary blaze; as, a flash of lightning..

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

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

Ebb Tide :: Ebb tide () The reflux of tide water; the retiring tide; -- opposed to flood tide.

Flooded :: Flooded (imp. & p. p.) of Floo.

Freshet :: Freshet (a.) A flood or overflowing of a stream caused by heavy rains or melted snow; a sudden inundation.

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

Salt :: Salt (n.) Marshes flooded by the tide.

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..

Flood :: Flood (v. i.) A great flow of water; a body of moving water; the flowing stream, as of a river; especially, a body of water, rising, swelling, and overflowing land not usually thus covered; a deluge; a freshet; an inundation..

Debacle :: Debacle (n.) A breaking or bursting forth; a violent rush or flood of waters which breaks down opposing barriers, and hurls forward and disperses blocks of stone and other debris..

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

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

Postdiluvian :: Postdiluvian (a.) Being or happening after the flood in Noah's days.

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

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

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

Desolate :: Desolate (v. t.) To make desolate; to leave alone; to deprive of inhabitants; as, the earth was nearly desolated by the flood..

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

Sluice :: Sluice (n.) The stream flowing through a flood gate.

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