\Ef"flu*ence\, n. [Cf. F. effluence.]
1. A flowing out, or emanation.
2. That which flows or issues from any body or substance;
   issue; efflux.
         Bright effluence of bright essence increate!
                                               --Milton.
         And, as if the gloom of the earth and sky had been
         but the effluence of these two mortal hearts, it
         vanished with their sorrow.           --Hawthorne.