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† conˈflow, v. Obs.
[f. con- + flow, after L. confluĕre, F. confluer, and their various English derivatives.]
To flow together. a. of rivers.
1609Holland Amm. Marcell. 221 (R.) Where the streame was big by occasion of other brookes conflowing thither. 1872H. M. Stanley How I found L. I. 79 After following a course north-easterly, it conflows with the Kingani.
b. of people, crowds.
1606Holland Sueton. 106 margin, Strangers that conflowed thither to see the showes. 1610― Camden's Brit. i. 596 Hither, almost all the Commodities of Wales, doe conflow as it were to a common Mart. 1627Speed England, etc. Abr., Ireland ii. §11 In what Troopes and Assemblies people doe conflow thither vpon deuotion. |