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Definition of Flown
1. a. Flushed, inflated.
Definition of Flown
1. Verb. (past participle of fly) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Flown
1. fly [v] - See also: fly
Lexicographical Neighbors of Flown
Literary usage of Flown
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Poets of Connecticut: With Biographical Sketches by Charles William Everest (1844)
"Twelve years have flown, since last I saw My birth-place, and my home of youth;
How oft its scenes would memory draw Her tints, ..."
2. The Collected Poems of Philip Bourke Marston: Comprising "Song-tide," "All by Philip Bourke Marston, Louise Chandler Moulton (1892)
"flown LOVE. So far Love has flown we cannot find him ; All joy is past: We may
not follow, ... And where has Love flown, if flown he be ? Can you not say? ..."
3. The Iliad of Homer by Homer, John Graham Cordery (1871)
"... was waxing of her noble might; Yea, had the course some paces further stretch'd,
He had flown foremost, clean, beyond demur. ..."
4. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1889)
"Fawcett's sermons are high-flown, but not «lev IR! of matter ; they are written
for effect, AHI! may be read with interest, notwithstanding their ..."
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