These are the meanings of the letters OWFL when you unscramble them.
- Flow ()
imp. sing. of Fly, v. i.
- Flow (n.)
A continuous movement of something abundant; as, a flow of words.
- Flow (n.)
A low-lying piece of watery land; -- called also flow moss and flow bog.
- Flow (n.)
A stream of water or other fluid; a current; as, a flow of water; a flow of blood.
- Flow (n.)
Any gentle, gradual movement or procedure of thought, diction, music, or the like, resembling the quiet, steady movement of a river; a stream.
- Flow (n.)
The tidal setting in of the water from the ocean to the shore. See Ebb and flow, under Ebb.
- Flow (v. i.)
To become liquid; to melt.
- Flow (v. i.)
To discharge blood in excess from the uterus.
- Flow (v. i.)
To glide along smoothly, without harshness or asperties; as, a flowing period; flowing numbers; to sound smoothly to the ear; to be uttered easily.
- Flow (v. i.)
To hang loose and waving; as, a flowing mantle; flowing locks.
- Flow (v. i.)
To have or be in abundance; to abound; to full, so as to run or flow over; to be copious.
- Flow (v. i.)
To move with a continual change of place among the particles or parts, as a fluid; to change place or circulate, as a liquid; as, rivers flow from springs and lakes; tears flow from the eyes.
- Flow (v. i.)
To proceed; to issue forth; as, wealth flows from industry and economy.
- Flow (v. i.)
To rise, as the tide; -- opposed to ebb; as, the tide flows twice in twenty-four hours.
- Flow (v. t.)
To cover with varnish.
- Flow (v. t.)
To cover with water or other liquid; to overflow; to inundate; to flood.
- Fowl (n.)
Any bird; esp., any large edible bird.
- Fowl (n.)
Any domesticated bird used as food, as a hen, turkey, duck; in a more restricted sense, the common domestic cock or hen (Gallus domesticus).
- Fowl (v. i.)
To catch or kill wild fowl, for game or food, as by shooting, or by decoys, nets, etc.
- Wolf (a.)
A white worm, or maggot, which infests granaries.
- Wolf (a.)
A willying machine.
- Wolf (a.)
An eating ulcer or sore. Cf. Lupus.
- Wolf (a.)
Any one of several species of wild and savage carnivores belonging to the genus Canis and closely allied to the common dog. The best-known and most destructive species are the European wolf (Canis lupus), the American gray, or timber, wolf (C. occidentalis), and the prairie wolf, or coyote. Wolves often hunt in packs, and may thus attack large animals and even man.
- Wolf (a.)
Fig.: Any very ravenous, rapacious, or destructive person or thing; especially, want; starvation; as, they toiled hard to keep the wolf from the door.
- Wolf (a.)
In bowed instruments, a harshness due to defective vibration in certain notes of the scale.
- Wolf (a.)
One of the destructive, and usually hairy, larvae of several species of beetles and grain moths; as, the bee wolf.
- Wolf (a.)
The harsh, howling sound of some of the chords on an organ or piano tuned by unequal temperament.