Flux

FLUX, BLOODY, or dysentery, Acts 28:8.

Part of speech: noun (n.)

1. The act of flowing; a continuous moving on or passing by, as of a flowing stream; constant succession; change. By the perpetual flux of the liquids, a great part of them is thrown out of the body. Arbuthnot. Her image has escaped the flux of things, And that same infant beauty that she wore Is fixed upon her now forevermore. Trench. Languages, like our bodies, are in a continual flux. Felton.

2. The setting in of the tide toward the shore, -- the (reflux.

3. The state of beinng liquid through heat; fusion.

4. Any substance or mixture used to promote the fusion of metals or minerals, as alkalies, borax, lime, fluorite.

5. A fluid discharge from the bowels or other part; especially, an excessive and morbid discharge; as, the bloody flux or dysentery. See Bloody flux.

6. The matter thus discharged.

7. The quantity of a fluid that crosses a unit area of a given surface in a unit of time.

Part of speech: verb (v.)

1. To affect, or bring to a certain state, by flux. He might fashionably and genteelly . . . have been dueled or fluxed into another world. South.

2. To cause to become fluid; to fuse. Kirwan.

3. To cause a discharge from; to purge.

Part of speech: adjective (a.)

Flowing; unstable; inconstant; variable. The flux nature of all things here. Barrow.