a. Obs. Also 5 fludy, 6 floudy, fluddy. [f. FLOOD sb. + -Y1.] Pertaining to the flood, i.e., to the river or to the sea.

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c. 1420.  Pallad. on Husb., I. 372.

        Stone tiburtyne, or floody columbyne,
Or spongy rede, lete brenne, or marble stone.

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1483.  Cath. Angl., 136/2. Fludy, fluuialis.

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1599.  Nashe, Lenten Stuffe, Wks. (Grosart), V. 232. Wrest them vp to the most outstretched ayry straine of elocution to chaunt and carroll forth the Alteza, an excelsitude of this monarchall fluddy Induperator [red herring].

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