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Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 1 of 2

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.

Noah Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Structured JSON vendored from sktzofrenic/webster1828 at commit 5a58d9e0191eefaa51affbc1bb1b8bc5782ba6c0. The upstream README identifies the dictionary text as public domain and the project license as MIT.

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