(1) Fluent, affluent, influence, influenza, superfluous, fluid, influx, flush (rush of water), fluctuate; (2) confluent, mellifluous, flux, reflux, effluvium, flume.

'I am told that it is given with great success to infants, as a cordial in the confluent small-pox.'

The whole affair was like one of those alarms in a country-town which begin with the rumor of ten cases of confluent small-pox and end with the discovery that the doctor has been called to a case of nettle-rash at Deacon Scudder's.

Adj. converging &c v.; convergent, confluent, concurrent; centripetal; asymptotical, asymptotic; confluxible^. 291.

In the narrow defile the battle surged in confluent waves, until Mahomet, seizing the moment when a little advantage was in his favour, pressed home the attack and, casting dust in the face of the enemy, cried: "Ruin seize them!

The town itself is situated on the confluent of the Sambre and Meuse and lies in a valley completely commanded and protected by the citadel.

LYONS, 26th Sept. Lyons is situated on a tongue of land at the junction of the Saône and Rhône, and there is a fine bridge on the spot where the streams unite, called le pont du Confluent, which joins the extremity of the tongue of land with the right bank of the Saône.

One was our pretty Miss Sallie Lewis, who had the dread disease in confluent form.

Sori at the end of the veins at first small and roundish, but afterwards more or less confluent.

Notholàena Small ferns with fruit-dots borne beneath the revolute margin of the pinnules, at first roundish, but soon confluent into a narrow band without indusium.

Fruit-dots oblong in chain-like rows along the midrib both of the pinnæ and the lobes, confluent when ripe.

Sori few, soon confluent.

Indusium delicate, often reniform, or shaped like a horseshoe, in some forms confluent at maturity.

In identifying this fern the novice should bear in mind the tendency of the curved sori of youth to become straightened and even confluent with age, although such changes are rather unreliable.

WALKING LEAF Camptosòrus Fruit-dots oblong or linear as in Asplènium, but irregularly scattered on either side of the reticulated veins of the simple frond, the outer ones sometimes confluent at their ends, forming crooked lines (hence, the name from the Greek meaning crooked sori).

Pinnæ linear-lanceolate, scythe-shaped, auricled on the upper side, and with bristly teeth; fertile pinnæ contracted toward the top, bearing two rows of sori, which soon become confluent and cover the entire surface.

Pinnules oblong, obtuse, serrate at the apex, obscurely so at the sides, the basal incisely lobed, distant, the upper confluent.

Fruit-dots near the margin often confluent at maturity.

Fruit-dots rarely confluent.

Divided into two or more parts. CONFLUENT.

The cataracts then become frequently confluent, though not more picturesque.

The torrent dashing in cataracts over some of the large boulders and eddying round the base of others, pursues an agitated course until it reaches the desert, through which it glides more calmly, and combines with the Oxus beyond Koollum, whence the confluent waters proceed uninterruptedly to the sea of Aral.

Reality is confluent from next to next, 290.

and I be confluent in a higher consciousness, and confluently active there, tho we now know it not? I am tiring myself and you, I know, by vainly seeking to describe by concepts and words what I say at the same time exceeds either conceptualization or verbalization.

Sydenham assures us, that among all the substances which occasion a derivation or revulsion from the head, none operate more powerfully than garlic applied to the soles of the feet: hence he was led to make use of it in the confluent small-pox about the eighth day, after the face began to swell; the root cut in pieces, and tied in a linen cloth, was applied to the soles, and renewed once a day till all danger was over.