fluxure

English

Etymology

From Latin fluxura (“a flowing”).

Noun

fluxure

  1. (obsolete) The quality of being fluid; fluidity.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Fielding to this entry?)
  2. (obsolete) Fluid matter.
    • Michael Drayton
      Call'd Barnacles by us, which like a jelly first
      To the beholder seem, then by the fluxure nurst.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for fluxure in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Latin

Participle

fluxūre

  1. vocative masculine singular of fluxūrus
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