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. "A covenant never to destroy The earth again by flood."
2.
The flowing in of the tide; the semidiurnal swell or rise of water in the ocean; opposed to ebb; as, young flood; high flood."There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune."
3.
A great flow or stream of any fluid substance; as, a flood of light; a flood of lava; hence, a great quantity widely diffused; an overflowing; a superabundance; as, a flood of bank notes; a flood of paper currency.
4.
Menstrual disharge; menses.
Flood anchor (Naut.), the anchor by which a ship is held while the tide is rising.
Flood fence, a fence so secured that it will not be swept away by a flood.
Flood gate, a gate for shutting out, admitting, or releasing, a body of water; a tide gate.
Flood mark, the mark or line to which the tide, or a flood, rises; high-water mark.
Flood tide, the rising tide; opposed to ebb tide.
The Flood, the deluge in the days of Noah.
verb
Flood v. t. (past & past part. flooded; pres. part. flooding)
1.
To overflow; to inundate; to deluge; as, the swollen river flooded the valley.
2.
To cause or permit to be inundated; to fill or cover with water or other fluid; as, to flood arable land for irrigation; to fill to excess or to its full capacity; as, to flood a country with a depreciated currency.
... supported on her knee, had grown to the thickness of half an inch. Only a few pages remained unread, half lifted on the other side, above which her ivory paper knife hung suspended. Clothed in a yellow gown and sitting in a flood of yellow light that radiated from the shaded lamp beside her, she presented an extraordinarily vivid picture against the brown panelling of the wall. Even in repose one divined the suppressed energy of the ... — The Mayor of Warwick • Herbert M. Hopkins Read full book for free!
... luminous orb laid a flaming pathway across the shimmering waters, and golden bars of light, like gleaming fingers outstretched, fell athwart the tall pines that towered on the high bluff back of the camp. The glorious sunshine, succeeding a flood of rosy color, inundated the scene; it bathed in a gorgeous radiance the early autumn woods, it illumined the bunkhouse, and another rude shanty known to the squad as the grub-shack, it poured down on old Hinky-Dink, the ancient negro cookee, setting ... — T. Haviland Hicks Senior • J. Raymond Elderdice Read full book for free!
... one of the most beautiful forms of modern prose-fiction. Immermann wrote Der Oberhof in 1839. Weill and Auerbach took up the running in 1841 and 1843. George Sand followed, and Fritz Reuter. Bjoernson began to write in 1856. Synnoeve Solbakken and Arne came in on the high flood of this movement. "These two stories," writes Mr. Gosse, "seem to me to be almost perfect; they have an enchanting lyrical quality, without bitterness or passion, which I look for elsewhere in vain in the prose ... — Adventures in Criticism • Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch Read full book for free!
... of 'your day' as if you telling the boys down at the corner store about the good times they all had before the Flood. You're one of the Younger Set and don't let me have to tell you again. Say, listen! You know that show you saw last night. The one where I was supported by a few underlings. Well, George wrote the music ... — A Damsel in Distress • Pelham Grenville Wodehouse Read full book for free!
... was necessary to curtail some of our long-range plans for development of our natural resources, and to emphasize programs vital to the prosecution of the war. Work was suspended on a number of flood control and reclamation projects and on the development of our national forests and parks. This work must now be resumed, and new projects must be undertaken to provide essential services and to assist in ... — State of the Union Addresses of Harry S. Truman • Harry S. Truman Read full book for free!
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