rĕflŭus, a, um, adj. [refluo],
flowing back , refluent : mare, Ov. M. 7, 267; Plin. 2, 97, 100, § 220: amnes, Sil. 5, 624: aestus, id. 15, 226: gurges, Stat. S. 5, 1, 91; cf. litus, from which the sea recedes , Ap. Met. 4, 31, 14; assueti refluas dominorum lambere micas, Sedul. Carm. Pasch. 3, 246.