deflow
English edit
Etymology edit
de- + flow: compare Latin defluere.
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
deflow (third-person singular simple present deflows, present participle deflowing, simple past and past participle deflowed)
- (obsolete) To flow down.
- 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
- a collection of some superfluous matter deflowing from the body
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “deflow”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)