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▪ I. interflow, n.|ˈɪntəfləʊ| [inter- 2: cf. next.] †1. A flowing between; a channel or strait. Obs.
1610Holland Camden's Brit. ii. 215 They [islands] are severed..by a narrow enterflow of the Sea betweene. 2. A flowing into each other; intermingling.
1865Cornh. Mag. June 647 The delicious interflow of the soft purity of the sky and the bright tranquillity of the lake. 1867Froude Short Stud., Sci. Hist. 19 In the subtle interflow of good and evil..Shakspeare is true to real experience. 1883D. H. Wheeler By-Ways Lit. vii. 110 We know too little of the human interflow and communion during the unhistoric periods. ▪ II. interflow, v.|ɪntəˈfləʊ| [f. inter- 1 + flow v.; in sense 1 after L. interfluĕre to flow between.] 1. intr. To flow between. rare.
1610Holland Camden's Brit. 12 What way the current cold Of Northern Ocean with strong tides doth interflow and swell. 1848Lytton Arthur x. c, Till light at last From skies long hid, wide silvering, interflows. †b. trans. (with obj. governed by the prep.)
1610Holland Camden's Brit. ii. 60 Where it inter-floweth France and Britain, it is properly called the British Sea. 2. intr. To flow into each other; to intermingle.
1844[see interflowing below]. 1859Whittier Overheart v, The earthquake and the storm are God's, And good and evil interflow. 1880G. Meredith Tragic Com. (1881) 172 The thousand varying shades of her motions and her features interflowing like a lighted water. Hence interˈflowing vbl. n. and ppl. a.
1610Holland Camden's Brit. 1 Severed from the continent of Europe by the interflowing of the Ocean. 1674J. Josselyn Voy. New Eng. 220 The streight of Magellan, where there are many Islands distinguished by an interflowing Bay. 1844Mrs. Browning Lady Geraldine's Courtship xl, The subtle interflowings Found in Petrarch's sonnets. 1898Expositor June 440 Intermingling clouds and interflowing waves. |