affluent (afloent)

and n. [ His imagination is most a fluent when it is pervaded by a calm, yet intense and lofty spirit of meditation. Whipple, E . and Rev., I. 249. II. n. A tributary stream; a stream or river flowing into another, or into a lake, bay, etc. He cast anchor in a very great bay, with many affluents . Bancroft , Hist. U. S., I. 108. As the Thames rolls along, it receives a number of these feeders, or a fluents, which empty themselves into the river. IMG:content-0354.png:[blocks in formation]