flowen

flowen

1. (obsolete) past participle of flow

• “flowen”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• floȝen, flouen, flowe, flue, flwy
• flowenn (Ormulum)

Inherited from Old English flōwan, from Proto-West Germanic *flōan, from Proto-Germanic *flōaną. Compare flod.

• IPA^(key): /ˈflɔu̯ən/

flowen (third-person singular simple present floweth, present participle flowende, flowynge, first-/third-person singular past indicative and past participle flowed)

1. To flow, stream, or issue; (to move as a fluid):
   1. To gush or spurt; to move rapidly as a jet.
   2. To spout or trickle; to flow downwards.
   3. To act like a fluid; to be turbulent or impermanent.
   4. (figurative) To flow (move smoothly like liquid)
   5. (rare, of the sea) To become turbulent or rough.
2. To be flooded; to be overwhelmed by a flood or deluge.
3. (of the tide) To surge or rise; to become or be high.
4. To float; to be propelled by water or as if by water.
5. (rare, figurative) To macerate in joy or lucre.
6. (rare, figurative) To appear (of feelings)

This verb is mainly weak in Middle English, but some traces of its historic status as a class 7 strong verb still remain.

• flowynge
• overflowen

• English: flow
• Scots: flow, flou

• “flouen, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 12 November 2018.

flōwen

1. past participle of flōwan