overflowing

noun

1. overflow

   “[T]hough he had, as it were, from the overflowings of his heart, given Sophia as a toast among the officers, where he thought it was impossible she should be known; yet, even there, the reader may remember how difficultly he was prevailed upon to mention her surname.”

   “the great overflowings and recedings of the waters”

verb

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present)present participle and gerund of overflow