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Fluent
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Part of speech: noun (n.)
1. A current of water; a stream. [Obs.]
2. A variable quantity, considered as increasing or diminishing; - - called, in the modern calculus, the function or integral.
Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 2 of 2
Part of speech: adjective (a.)
1. Flowing or capable of flowing; liquid; glodding; easily moving.
2. Ready in the use of words; voluble; copious; having words at command; and uttering them with facility and smoothness; as, a fluent speaker; hence, flowing; voluble; smooth; -- said of language; as, fluent speech. With most fluent utterance. Denham. Fluent as the flight of a swallow is the sultan's letter. De Quincey.