rare–1. [Of doubtful genuineness. Ger. flosz has this sense; perh. the title of The Mill on the Floss (where Floss is a proper name) led Carlyle to think that the word existed in the same form in Eng. Cf. FLOUSE.] A stream.
1865. Carlyle, Fredk. Gt., V. XIX. iv. 472. Boggy oozings especially,—there is one dirty stream or floss (Hünerfliess, Hen-Floss) which wanders dismally through those recesses, issuing from the far south, with dirty daughters dismally wandering into it.
