On such a full sea are we now afloat. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Moving; passing from place to place; in general circulation; as, a rumor is afloat. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Unfixed; moving without guide or control; adrift; as, our affairs are all afloat. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Covered with water bearing floating articles; flooded; as, the decks are afloat. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

Their founts aflow with tears. R. Browning. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The edible head or “curd” of a cauliflower plant. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. any of various perennials of eastern US having thick rough leaves and long-stalked showy flowers with drooping rays and a conelike center. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. That which is chosen as the flower or choicest part; careful culling or selection. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The laws of Normandy are, in a great measure, the defloration of the English laws. Sir M. Hale. [ 1913 Webster ]

He died innocent and before the sweetness of his soul was defloured and ravished from him. Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

An earthquake . . . deflowering the gardens. W. Montagu. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To take away the prime beauty and grace of; to rob of the choicest ornament. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To deprive of virginity, as a woman; to violate; to ravish; also, to seduce. [ 1913 Webster ]

If a man had deflowered a virgin. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Chem.) To change on the surface, or throughout, to a whitish, mealy, or crystalline powder, from a gradual decomposition, esp. from the loss of water, on simple exposure to the air; as, Glauber's salts, and many others, effloresce. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To become covered with a whitish crust or light crystallization, from a slow chemical change between some of the ingredients of the matter covered and an acid proceeding commonly from an external source; as, the walls of limestone caverns sometimes effloresce with nitrate of calcium in consequence of the action of nitric acid formed in the atmosphere. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Med.) A redness of the skin; eruption, as in rash, measles, smallpox, scarlatina, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Chem.) (a) The formation of the whitish powder or crust on the surface of efflorescing bodies, as salts, etc. (b) The powder or crust thus formed. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Covered with an efflorescence. [ 1913 Webster ]

These odorous and enflowered fields. B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. plant of the Southwestern U. S. with fleshy roots and erect stems with narrow succulent leaves and one reddish-orange flower in each upper leaf axil. Its fleshy roots were once cooked by Indians. [ WordNet 1.5 ]