Flood

flud, n. A body of moving water, esp. overflow- ing land not usually covered; a deluge; freshet; inundation; the flowing in of the tide, — opp. to ebb; a great quantity; abundance; superabundance; the deluge in the days of Noah; a great body or stream of any fluid substance; menstrual discharge, —v. To overflow, inundate, deluge. [AS.,Ic, Sw., and Ba.n.flod, D. vloed, Goth, flodus, G. fluth, a flood, Skr. pluta, wet, p. p. of plu, to swim flow, q. v.] — Flooding, n. An overflowing, — esp. a uterine hemorrhage. — Flood'-gate, n. A gate to stop or to let out water any opening or pa age an obstruc- — tion or restraint. mark, n. The mark or line to which the tide rises high-water mark.