Part 4429

<hw>Flu`vi*o-ma*rine"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>fluvius</ets> river + E. <ets>marine</ets>.]</ety> <fld>(Geol.)</fld> <def>Formed by the joint action of a river and the sea, as deposits at the mouths of rivers.</def>

<h1>Flux</h1> <Xpage=576>

<hw>Flux</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>fluxus</ets>, fr. <ets>fluere</ets>, <ets>fluxum</ets>,to flow: cf.F. <ets>flux</ets>. See <er>Fluent</er>, and cf. 1st & 2d <er>Floss</er>, <er>Flush</er>, <tt>n.</tt>, 6.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>The act of flowing; a continuous moving on or passing by, as of a flowing stream; constant succession; change.</def>

<blockquote> By the perpetual <b>flux</b> of the liquids, a great part of them is thrown out of the body. <i>Arbuthnot.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>Her image has escaped the <b>flux</b> of things, And that same infant beauty that she wore Is fixed upon her now forevermore. <i>Trench.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote> Languages, like our bodies, are in a continual <b>flux</b>. <i>Felton.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>The setting in of the tide toward the shore, -- the (<?/)bb being called the <i>reflux</i>.</def>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>The state of beinng liquid through heat; fusion.</def>

<p><b>4.</b> <fld>(Chem.& Metal.)</fld> <def>Any substance or mixture used to promote the fusion of metals or minerals, as alkalies, borax, lime, fluorite.</def>

<note>&hand; <i>White flux</i> is the residuum of the combustion of a mixture of equal parts of niter and tartar. It consists chiefly of the carbonate of potassium, and is white.- <i>Black flux</i> is the ressiduum of the combustion of one part of niter and two of tartar, and consists essentially of a mixture of potassium carbonate and charcoal.</note>

<p><b>5.</b> <fld>(Med.)</fld> <sd>(a)</sd> <def>A fluid discharge from the bowels or other part; especially, an excessive and morbid discharge; <as>as, the bloody <ex>flux</ex> or dysentery</as>. See <er>Bloody flux</er>.</def> <sd>(b)</sd> <def>The matter thus discharged.</def>

<p><b>6.</b> <fld>(Physics)</fld> <def>The quantity of a fluid that crosses a unit area of a given surface in a unit of time.</def>

<h1>Flux</h1> <Xpage=576>

<hw>Flux</hw>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>fluxus</ets>, p. p. of <ets>fluere</ets>. See <er>Flux</er>, <tt>n.</tt>]</ety> <def>Flowing; unstable; inconstant; variable.</def>

<blockquote>The <b>flux</b> nature of all things here. <i>Barrow.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Flux</h1> <Xpage=576>

<hw>Flux</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Fluxed</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Fluxing</er>.]</wordforms> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To affect, or bring to a certain state, by flux.</def>

<blockquote>He might fashionably and genteelly . . . have been dueled or <b>fluxed</b> into another world. <i>South.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To cause to become fluid; to fuse.</def>

<i>Kirwan.</i>

<p><b>3.</b> <fld>(Med.)</fld> <def>To cause a discharge from; to purge.</def>

<h1>Fluxation</h1> <Xpage=576>

<hw>Flux*a"tion</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>The act of fluxing.</def>

<h1>Fluxibility</h1> <Xpage=576>

<hw>Flux`i*bil"i*ty</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Cf. LL. <ets>fluxibilitas</ets> fluidity.]</ety> <def>The quality of being fluxible.</def>

<i>Hammond.</i>

<h1>Fluxible</h1> <Xpage=576>

<hw>Flux"i*ble</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[Cf.LL. <ets>fluxibilis</ets> fluid, OF. <ets>fluxible</ets>.]</ety> <def>Capable of being melted or fused, as a mineral.</def>