v. Obs. [f. CON- + FLOW, after L. confluĕre, F. confluer, and their various English derivatives.] To flow together. a. of rivers.
1609. Holland, Amm. Marcell., 221 (R.). Where the streame was big by occasion of other brookes conflowing thither.
1872. H. M. Stanley, How I found L., I. 79. After following a course north-easterly, it conflows with the Kingani.
b. of people, crowds.
1606. Holland, Sueton., 106, margin. Strangers that conflowed thither to see the showes. Ibid. (1610), Camden’s Brit., I. 596. Hither, almost all the Commodities of Wales, doe conflow as it were to a common Mart.
1627. Speed, England, etc. Abr., Ireland, ii. § 11. In what Troopes and Assemblies people doe conflow thither vpon deuotion.
