Devolve and Flow

devolve

Pass on or delegate to another.
- usage: "The representative devolved his duties to his aides while he was in the hospital"
Be inherited by.
- usage: "The estate fell to my sister"; "The land returned to the family"; "The estate devolved to an heir that everybody had assumed to be dead"
- synonyms: fall, return, pass
Grow worse.
- usage: "Her condition deteriorated"; "Conditions in the slums degenerated"; "The discussion devolved into a shouting match"
- synonyms: deteriorate, drop, degenerate

(v.t.) To transfer from one person to another; to deliver over; to hand down; -- generally with upon, sometimes with to or into.
(v.t.) To roll onward or downward; to pass on.
(v.i.) To pass by transmission or succession; to be handed over or down; -- generally with on or upon, sometimes with to or into; as, after the general fell, the command devolved upon (or on) the next officer in rank.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

To pass on or delegate to another, e. G. A' DEVOLVE'd letter of credit.

flow

The motion characteristic of fluids (liquids or gases.
- synonyms: flowing
The amount of fluid that flows in a given time.
- synonyms: flow rate, rate of flow
The act of flowing or streaming; continuous progression.
- synonyms: stream
Any uninterrupted stream or discharge.
Something that resembles a flowing stream in moving continuously.
- usage: "a stream of people emptied from the terminal"; "the museum had planned carefully for the flow of visitors"
- synonyms: stream
Dominant course (suggestive of running water) of successive events or ideas.
- usage: "two streams of development run through American history"; "stream of consciousness"; "the flow of thought"; "the current of history"
- synonyms: stream, current
The monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of nonpregnant women from puberty to menopause."the women were sickly and subject to excessive menstruation"; "a woman does not take the gout unless her menses be stopped-Hippocrates; "the semen begins to appear in males and to be emitted at the same time of life that the catamenia begin to flow in females-Aristotle
- synonyms: menstruation, menses, menstruum, catamenia, period

Move or progress freely as if in a stream.
- usage: "The crowd flowed out of the stadium"
- synonyms: flux
Move along, of liquids.
- usage: "Water flowed into the cave"; "the Missouri feeds into the Mississippi"
- synonyms: run, feed, course
Cause to flow.
- usage: "The artist flowed the washes on the paper"
Be abundantly present.
- usage: "The champagne flowed at the wedding"
Fall or flow in a certain way.
- usage: "This dress hangs well"; "Her long black hair flowed down her back"
- synonyms: hang, fall
Cover or swamp with water.
Undergo menstruation.
- usage: "She started menstruating at the age of 11"
- synonyms: menstruate

(v.i.) To proceed; to issue forth; as, wealth flows from industry and economy.
(n.) Any gentle, gradual movement or procedure of thought, diction, music or the like, resembling the quiet, steady movement of a river; a stream.
(n.) The tidal setting in of the water from the ocean to the shore. See Ebb and flow, under Ebb.
(v.i.) To rise, as the tide; -- opposed to ebb; as, the tide flows twice in twenty-four hours.
(v.t.) To cover with water or other liquid; to overflow; to inundate; to flood.
(n.) A stream of water or other fluid; a current; as, a flow of water; a flow of blood.
(v.i.) To move with a continual change of place among the particles or parts, as a fluid; to change place or circulate, as a liquid; as, rivers flow from springs and lakes; tears flow from the eyes.
(v.i.) To have or be in abundance; to abound; to full, so as to run or flow over; to be copious.
(n.) A continuous movement of something abundant; as, a flow of words.
(v.t.) To cover with varnish.
imp. sing. of Fly, v. i.
(v.i.) To become liquid; to melt.
(v.i.) To hang loose and waving; as, a flowing mantle; flowing locks.
(n.) A low-lying piece of watery land; -- called also flow moss and flow bog.
(v.i.) To glide along smoothly, without harshness or asperties; as, a flowing period; flowing numbers; to sound smoothly to the ear; to be uttered easily.
(v.i.) To discharge blood in excess from the uterus.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary