Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- An obsolete preterit plural and past participle of fly.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- imp. pl. of
fly , v. i.
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- verb obsolete Past participle of
flow
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Examples
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I was flowen back to MAG-11, SQD. -11 due to my right arm going paralyzed;
JODY DEAN DOWELL 2010
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We rescue many countries that want really just want to spit on our beliefs and the flag that has flowen for those which have served.
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And whan his folk saughe him at the erthe, thei weren alle abasscht, and wenden he had ben ded, and flowen everych one; and hire enemyes aftre, and chaced hem: but thei wiste not, that the emperour was there.
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And whan his folk saughe him at the erthe, thei weren alle abasscht, and wenden he had ben ded, and flowen everych one; and hire enemyes aftre, and chaced hem: but thei wiste not, that the emperour was there.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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He ordeyned furst yat theeues yat to Temple flowen wer,
The Lives of the Most Famous English Poets (1687) William Winstanley
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Plato, or Aristotle, as matter worthelie forceth to commend, when as of them, all learnyng, and singularitée of artes hath flowen.
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The gees for fere flowen over the trees, and the bees come out of their hives.
A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance Jean Jules Jusserand
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He ordeyned furst yat theeues yat to Temple flowen wer,
The Lives of the Most Famous English Poets Winstanley, William, 1628?-1698 1687
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And whan his folk saughe him at the erthe, thei weren alle abasscht, and wenden he had ben ded, and flowen everych one; and hire enemyes aftre, and chaced hem: but thei wiste not, that the emperour was there.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 08 Asia, Part I Richard Hakluyt 1584
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Time whẽ it is once flowen awaye (and it flyeth awaye very quickely) may be called againe by no inchauntmentes.
The Education of Children Desiderius Erasmus 1502
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