Part 4401

<h1>Flood</h1> <Xpage=572>

<hw>Flood</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Flooded</er>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Flooding</er>.]</wordforms> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To overflow; to inundate; to deluge; <as>as, the swollen river <ex>flooded</ex> the valley</as>.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To cause or permit to be inundated; to fill or cover with water or other fluid; <as>as, to <ex>flood</ex> arable land for irrigation</as>; to fill to excess or to its full capacity; <as>as, to <ex>flood</ex> a country with a depreciated currency</as>.</def>

<h1>Floodage</h1> <Xpage=572>

<hw>Flood"age</hw> <tt>(?; 48)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>Inundation.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<i>Carlyle.</i>

<h1>Flooder</h1> <Xpage=572>

<hw>Flood"er</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>One who floods anything.</def>

<h1>Flooding</h1> <Xpage=572>

<hw>Flood"ing</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>The filling or covering with water or other fluid; overflow; inundation; the filling anything to excess.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Med.)</fld> <def>An abnormal or excessive discharge of blood from the uterus.</def>

<i>Dunglison.</i>

<h1>Flook</h1> <Xpage=572>

<hw>Flook</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>A fluke of an anchor.</def>

<h1>Flookan, Flukan</h1> <Xpage=572>

<hw><hw>Flook"an</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <hw>Flu"kan</hw> <tt>(?)</tt><hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <fld>(Mining)</fld> <def>See <er>Flucan</er>.</def>

<h1>Flooky</h1> <Xpage=572>

<hw>Flook"y</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Fluky.</def>

<h1>Floor</h1> <Xpage=572>

<hw>Floor</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[AS. <ets>fl<?/r</ets>; akin to D. <ets>vloer</ets>, G. <ets>flur</ets> field, floor, entrance hall, Icel. <ets>fl<?/r</ets> floor of a cow stall, cf. Ir. & Gael. <ets>lar</ets> floor, ground, earth, W. <ets>llawr</ets>, perh. akin to L. <ets>planus</ets> level. Cf. <er>Plain</er> smooth.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>The bottom or lower part of any room; the part upon which we stand and upon which the movables in the room are supported.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>The structure formed of beams, girders, etc., with proper covering, which divides a building horizontally into stories. <i>Floor</i> in sense 1 is, then, the upper surface of <i>floor</i> in sense 2.</def>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>The surface, or the platform, of a structure on which we walk or travel; <as>as, the <ex>floor</ex> of a bridge</as>.</def>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>A story of a building. See <er>Story</er>.</def>

<p><b>5.</b> <fld>(Legislative Assemblies)</fld> <sd>(a)</sd> <def>The part of the house assigned to the members.</def> <sd>(b)</sd> <def>The right to speak.</def> <mark>[U.S.]</mark>

<note>&hand; Instead of <i>he has the floor</i>, the English say, <i>he is in possession of the house</i>.</note>

<p><b>6.</b> <fld>(Naut.)</fld> <def>That part of the bottom of a vessel on each side of the keelson which is most nearly horizontal.</def>

<p><b>7.</b> <fld>(Mining)</fld> <sd>(a)</sd> <def>The rock underlying a stratified or nearly horizontal deposit.</def> <sd>(b)</sd> <def>A horizontal, flat ore body.</def>

<i>Raymond.</i>