▪ I. ˈoutflow, n.
[out- 7.]
1. The act or fact of flowing out, efflux.
| 1869 Phillips Vesuv. xi. 315 Now rising into sudden jets, then sinking into a difficult outflow. 1879 St. George's Hosp. Rep. IX. 772 An opening which permitted the constant outflow of fluid. |
| attrib. 1898 Allbutt's Syst. Med. V. 453 Inflow and outflow tubes to the water-jacket. |
b. The amount that flows out.
| 1875 Bennett & Dyer tr. Sachs' Bot. 610 In the first thirty-three hours the outflow..amounted to 26·45 cubic cm. 1899 Allbutt's Syst. Med. VII. 247 The outflow of blood..has been seen to increase from two to six times. |
2. fig. Any outward movement analogous to the flowing of water.
| ? a 1800 Observer No. 13 (R.) The influx of foreigners, and the out-flow of natives, which the present peace will occasion. 1862 Sat. Rev. XIII. 640/2 The outflow of gold..is certain to continue and increase. 1869 Goulburn Purs. Holiness x. 91 The outflow of His Divine compassion. 1896 Edin. Rev. Jan. 108 A strong outflow of poetical feeling. |
▪ II. outˈflow, v.
[out- 14.]
intr. To flow out. (poet.)
| c 1580 Sidney Ps. xlii. ii, My teares out-flowing. a 1711 Ken Edmund Poet. Wks. 1721 II. 91 To suck th' Effluviums which he smelt out-flow. 1824 Campbell Theodric 533 Shall bitterness outflow from sweetness past? 1909 Daily Chron. 3 Mar. 5/7 Then outflowed a stream of facts and figures whose accumulated force swept the critics off their feet. |