(a) A flowing body of water; river, stream; the flod of Temse, the River Thames; the channel or current of a river; ston of ~, river stone; (b) the sea; salt ~, se ~, a sea or ocean; (c) any body of water; water (as opposed to land); fen and ~, folde and ~, land ne ~, etc.

(a) An inundation, a flood; on flode, flooded; (b) used with ref. to the Deluge; Noe(s) ~, Noah's flood.

(a) Flood tide, high tide; ebbe and ~, ebb and flow of the sea; fig. a rise or increase in wealth, woe, etc.; (b) physiol. an increase of 'humors' in the body.

(a) A current in the sea; rowen ayein the ~, to row against the current; (b) an ocean wave.

In personal names.

In various extended and fig. senses: (a) a flow or stream (of blood); (b) a flow or flood (of tears); (c) a stream (of sparks); (d) drinken of dethes ~, to drink of the stream of death, to die; (e) the water of baptism; (f) a flood (of words); (g) an abundance of (peace, sweetness, troubles).

Combinations: ~ crab, river crab; ~ gravel, river gravel; ~ ground, the bed or bottom of a body of water; ~ lote, din of the sea or the waves; ~ mark, mark of high tide, high-water mark; ~ net, a kind of fishing net; ~ whil, the time of the high tide; ~ womb, the bed of a stream.