ROGET'S THESAURUS OF ENGLISH WORDS AND PHRASES ...

Swithin; mizzle † , drizzle, stillicidum † , plash; dropping &c v.; falling weather;
northeaster, hurricane, typhoon.
stream, course, flux, flow, profluence † ; effluence &c (egress) 295; defluxion † ; flowing
&c v.; current, tide, race, coulee.
spring, artesian well, fount, fountain; rill, rivulet, gill, gullet, rillet † ; streamlet,
brooklet; branch [U.S.]; runnel, sike † , burn, beck, creek, brook, bayou, stream, river;
reach, tributary.
geyser, spout, waterspout.
body of water, torrent, rapids, flush, flood, swash; spring tide, high tide, full tide; bore,
tidal bore, eagre † , hygre † ; fresh, freshet; indraught † , reflux, undercurrent, eddy, vortex,
gurge † , whirlpool, Maelstrom, regurgitation, overflow; confluence, corrivation † .
wave, billow, surge, swell, ripple; anerythmon gelasma [Gr.]; beach comber, riffle
[U.S.], rollers, ground swell, surf, breakers, white horses, whitecaps; rough sea, heavy
sea, high seas, cross sea, long sea, short sea, chopping sea.
[Science of fluids in motion] hydrodynamics; hydraulics, hydraulicostatics † ; rain
gauge, flowmeter; pegology † .
irrigation &c (water) 337; pump; watering pot, watering cart; hydrant, syringe; garden
hose, lawn spray; bhisti † , mussuk † .
V. flow, run; meander; gush, pour, spout, roll, jet, well, issue; drop, drip, dribble, plash,
spirtle † , trill, trickle, distill, percolate; stream, overflow, inundate, deluge, flow over,
splash, swash; guggle † , murmur, babble, bubble, purl, gurgle, sputter, spurt, spray,
regurgitate; ooze, flow out &c (egress) 295.
rain hard, rain in torrents, rain cats and dogs, rain pitchforks; pour with rain, drizzle,
spit, set in; mizzle † .
flow into, fall into, open into, drain into; discharge itself, disembogue † .
[Cause a flow] pour; pour out &c (discharge) 297; shower down, irrigate, drench &c
(wet) 337; spill, splash.
[Stop a flow] stanch; dam, up &c (close) 261; obstruct &c 706.
Adj. fluent; diffluent † , profluent † , affluent; tidal; flowing &c v.; meandering, meandry † ,
meandrous † ; fluvial, fluviatile; streamy † , showery, rainy, pluvial, stillicidous † ;
stillatitious † .
Phr. for men may come and men may go but I go on forever [Tennyson]; that old man
river, he just keeps rolling along [Showboat].
349. [Air in motion] Wind -- N. wind, draught, flatus, afflatus, efflation † , eluvium † ; air;
breath, breath of air; puff, whiff, zephyr; blow, breeze, drift; aura; stream, current, jet
stream; undercurrent.
gust, blast, squall, gale, half a gale, storm, tempest, hurricane, whirlwind, tornado,
samiel, cyclone, anticyclone, typhoon; simoon † , simoom; harmattan † , monsoon, trade
wind, sirocco, mistral, bise † , tramontane, levanter; capful of wind; fresh breeze, stiff
breeze; keen blast; blizzard, barber [Can.], candelia † , chinook, foehn, khamsin † , norther,
vendaval † , wuther † .
windiness &c adj.; ventosity † ; rough weather, dirty weather, ugly weather, stress of
weather; dirty sky, mare's tail; thick squall, black squall, white squall.
anemography † , aerodynamics; wind gauge, weathercock, vane, weather-vane, wind
sock; anemometer, anemoscope † .