Obs. [ad. L. fluxūra, f. flux- ppl. stem of fluĕre to flow.] a. The quality of being fluid; fluidity. b. concr. That which flows; a quantity of fluid matter; sap.
a. 1599. B. Jonson, Ev. Man out of Hum., Induct.
| Why, Humor … in it selfe holds these two properties, | |
| Moisture and Fluxure. |
b. 1596. Drayton, Leg., IV. 930.
| As in the Corne, the Fluxure when we see | |
| Fills but the Straw, when it should feede the Eare. | |
| Ibid. (1603), Bar. Wars, II. xvi. | |
| From the swolne fluxure of the Cloudes, doth shake | |
| A ranke Impostume vpon euery Lake. | |
| Ibid. (1622), Poly-olb., xxvii. 375. | |
| A soft and sappy Gum, from which those Tree-geese grow, | |
| Call’d Barnacles by vs, which like a Ielly first | |
| To the beholder seeme, then by the fluxure nurst, | |
| Still great and greater thriue. |
