-n. 5.
current, drift, course, tide, ebb; stream, streamlet, brook, brooklet, creek, Dial,
crick, U.S. Dial,
kill, river, rivulet; channel, sluice, canal, waterway, watercourse; torrent, cascade, cataract, falls, rapids.
6. issuance, emanation, afflux, flux, outflow, outpour, outpouring, efflux, effluence; trickle, dribble, seepage, oozing; spout, spurt, jet, spring, geyser.
7. overflowing, flood, deluge; affluence, abundance, plenty; copiousness, plethora, excess.
flower, n.1. blossom, bloom, nosegay, bouquet; bud, floweret, floret; perennial, annual.
2. prime, acme, zenith, heyday, height, maturity, efflorescence, Latin, floruit; youth, early vigor, springtime of life, salad days.
3. ornament, adornment, embellishment, ornamentation, decoration; floral design, Print,
fleuron, rosette, acanthus.
4. best, pick, choicest, best part, finest; elite, cream, Fr. cr$me de la cr$me;
the least expendable.
-v. 5. blossom, produce flowers, bud, burgeon, bloom, effloresce; come out, unfold, open, dehisce; develop, mature, come to full bloom.
flowery, adj.1. flower-covered, blooming, bloomy, blossomy, blossoming; flowering, floral, florescent, efflorescent, floriferous; floriated.
2. (usu. of language) ornate, florid, high-flown, euphuistic, showy, elaborate; figurative, highly-wrought, overwrought; rhetorical, redundant, pleonastic; bombastic, grandiloquent, inflated,
flowing, adj.1. streaming, running, drifting, gliding, sliding, moving along; circulating, moving around, passing through; rolling, purling, rippling, gurgling, bubbling, trickling; gushing, surging, effusive; rushing, cascading, falling.
2. fluent, smooth, free-flowing, continuous, unbroken, uninterrupted; graceful, facile, effortless, easy.
3. abounding, teeming, rich, lush; overflowing, brimming over, swollen; flooded, overrun.
fluctuate, v. 1. vacillate, waver, yo-yo, seesaw, teeter-totter; equivocate, shilly-shally, hem and haw, blow hot and cold, tergiversate, straddle the fence.
2. wave, undulate, oscillate, pendulate,
fluctuation, n.1. vacillation, wavering, instability, unsteadiness; change, variation, alternation; hesitation, ambivalence, irresolution, indecision, undecisiveness, uncertainty, infirmity of purpose; fickleness, capriciousness, changeableness.
2. undulation, oscillation, rising and falling; rise and fall, ebb and flow, flux and reflux,
flue, n.duct, passage, air passage, air hole, airway, vent, venthole; chimney, smokestack, smokeshaft, stack, funnel, stovepipe, Naut. Sl.
Charley Noble,
fluency, n.1. facility, command, control; ease, felicity; grace, gracefulness, smoothness.
2. eloquence, articulateness, silver tongue, well-spokenness; volubility, verbosity, prolixity, long-windedness, Inf.gift of gab; profuseness, wordiness, verbiage, Rare,
multiloquence; glibness, slickness.
3. flow, flowing, flux, fluxion, afflux, affluence,
fluent, adj.1. eloquent, articulate, well-spoken, silver-tongued, Archaic, facund, Obs.facundious; glib, slick, smooth, smooth-tongued, smooth-talking, smooth-spoken, fast-talking; voluble, verbose, prolix, long-winded, Rare,
multiloquent.
2. smooth, easy, graceful, fluid, facile; mellifluous, tripping, euphonious, smooth-sounding, pleasing to