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, App. M. 4, p. 156: assueti refluas dominorum lambere micas, Sedul. Carm. Pasch. 3, 246.