FLOODINGS
Noun
floodings
plural of flooding
Source: Wiktionary
FLOODING
Flood"ing, n.
Definition: The filling or covering with water or other fluid; overflow;
inundation; the filling anything to excess.
2. (Med.)
Definition: An abnormal or excessive discharge of blood from the uterus.
Dunglison.
FLOOD
Flood, n. Etym: [OE. flod a flowing, stream, flood, AS. flod; akin to
D. vloed, OS. flod, OHG. fluot, G. flut, Icel. floedh, Sw. & Dan.
flod, Goth. flodus; from the root of E. flow. sq. root80. See Flow,
v. i.]
1. A great flow of water; a body of moving water; the flowing stream,
as of a river; especially, a body of water, rising, swelling, and
overflowing land not usually thus covered; a deluge; a freshet; an
inundation.
A covenant never to destroy The earth again by flood. Milton.
2. The flowing in of the tide; the semidiurnal swell or rise of water
in the ocean; -- opposed to ebb; as, young flood; high flood.
There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which, taken at the flood,
leads on to fortune. Shak.
3. A great flow or stream of any fluid substance; as, a flood of
light; a flood of lava; hence, a great quantity widely diffused; an
overflowing; a superabundance; as, a flood of bank notes; a flood of
paper currency.
4. Menstrual disharge; menses. Harvey. Flood anchor (Naut.) , the
anchor by which a ship is held while the tide is rising.
– Flood fence, a fence so secured that it will not be swept away by
a flood.
– Flood gate, a gate for shutting out, admitting, or releasing, a
body of water; a tide gate.
– Flood mark, the mark or line to which the tide, or a flood,
rises; high-water mark.
– Flood tide, the rising tide; -- opposed to ebb tide.
– The Flood, the deluge in the days of Noah.
Flood, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Flooded; p. pr. & vb. n. Flooding.]
1. To overflow; to inundate; to deluge; as, the swollen river flooded
the valley.
2. To cause or permit to be inundated; to fill or cover with water or
other fluid; as, to flood arable land for irrigation; to fill to
excess or to its full capacity; as, to flood a country with a
depreciated currency.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition