Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Flow \Flow\ (fl[=o]), obs.
   imp. sing. of {Fly}, v. i. --Chaucer.

Flow \Flow\ (fl[=o]), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Flowed} (fl[=o]d); p.
   pr. & vb. n. {Flowing}.] [AS. fl[=o]wan; akin to D. vloeijen,
   OHG. flawen to wash, Icel. fl[=o]a to deluge, Gr. plw`ein to
   float, sail, and prob. ultimately to E. float, fleet.
   [root]80. Cf. {Flood}.]
   1. To move with a continual change of place among the
      particles or parts, as a fluid; to change place or
      circulate, as a liquid; as, rivers flow from springs and
      lakes; tears flow from the eyes.

   2. To become liquid; to melt.

            The mountains flowed down at thy presence. --Is.
                                                  lxiv. 3.

   3. To proceed; to issue forth; as, wealth flows from industry
      and economy.

            Those thousand decencies that daily flow From all
            her words and actions.                --Milton.

   4. To glide along smoothly, without harshness or asperties;
      as, a flowing period; flowing numbers; to sound smoothly
      to the ear; to be uttered easily.

            Virgil is sweet and flowingin his hexameters.
                                                  --Dryden.

   5. To have or be in abundance; to abound; to full, so as to
      run or flow over; to be copious.

            In that day . . . the hills shall flow with milk.
                                                  --Joel iii.
                                                  18.

            The exhilaration of a night that needed not the
            influence of the flowing bowl.        --Prof.
                                                  Wilson.

   6. To hang loose and waving; as, a flowing mantle; flowing
      locks.

            The imperial purple flowing in his train. --A.
                                                  Hamilton.

   7. To rise, as the tide; -- opposed to ebb; as, the tide
      flows twice in twenty-four hours.

            The river hath thrice flowed, no ebb between.
                                                  --Shak.

   8. To discharge blood in excess from the uterus.

Flow \Flow\, v. t.
   1. To cover with water or other liquid; to overflow; to
      inundate; to flood.

   2. To cover with varnish.

Flow \Flow\, n.
   1. A stream of water or other fluid; a current; as, a flow of
      water; a flow of blood.

   2. A continuous movement of something abundant; as, a flow of
      words.

   3. Any gentle, gradual movement or procedure of thought,
      diction, music, or the like, resembling the quiet, steady
      movement of a river; a stream.

            The feast of reason and the flow of soul. --Pope.

   4. The tidal setting in of the water from the ocean to the
      shore. See {Ebb and flow}, under {Ebb}.

   5. A low-lying piece of watery land; -- called also {flow
      moss} and {flow bog}. [Scot.] --Jamieson.

Source : WordNet®

flow
     n 1: the motion characteristic of fluids (liquids or gases) [syn:
           {flowing}]
     2: the amount of fluid that flows in a given time [syn: {flow
        rate}, {rate of flow}]
     3: the act of flowing or streaming; continuous progression
        [syn: {stream}]
     4: any uninterrupted stream or discharge
     5: something that resembles a flowing stream in moving
        continuously; "a stream of people emptied from the
        terminal"; "the museum had planned carefully for the flow
        of visitors" [syn: {stream}]
     6: dominant course (suggestive of running water) of successive
        events or ideas; "two streams of development run through
        American history"; "stream of consciousness"; "the flow of
        thought"; "the current of history" [syn: {stream}, {current}]
     7: the monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of
        nonpregnant women from puberty to menopause; "the women
        were sickly and subject to excessive menstruation"; "a
        woman does not take the gout unless her menses be
        stopped"--Hippocrates; "the semen begins to appear in
        males and to be emitted at the same time of life that the
        catamenia begin to flow in females"--Aristotle [syn: {menstruation},
         {menses}, {menstruum}, {catamenia}, {period}]

flow
     v 1: move or progress freely as if in a stream; "The crowd flowed
          out of the stadium" [syn: {flux}]
     2: move along, of liquids; "Water flowed into the cave"; "the
        Missouri feeds into the Mississippi" [syn: {run}, {feed},
        {course}]
     3: cause to flow; "The artist flowed the washes on the paper"
     4: be abundantly present; "The champagne flowed at the wedding"
     5: fall or flow in a certain way; "This dress hangs well"; "Her
        long black hair flowed down her back" [syn: {hang}, {fall}]
     6: cover or swamp with water
     7: undergo menstruation; "She started menstruating at the age
        of 11" [syn: {menstruate}]

Source : Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing

Flow
     
         A companion utility to {Floppy} by Julian James Bunn
        .  Flow allows the user to produce
        various reports on the structure of {Fortran 77} code, such as
        {flow diagram}s and common block tables.  It runs under {VMS},
        {Unix}, {CMS}.
     
        Posted to comp.sources.misc volume 31.
     
        (1995-03-14)