| Flourish (flourish) |
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| v. i. | (?) |
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| Flour"ish |
| [imp. *** p.
p. Flourished (?)] p. pr. *** vb. n.
Flourishing.] [OE. florisshen, flurisshen, OF.
flurir, F. fleurir, fr. L. florere to bloom, fr.
flos, |
To grow luxuriantly] to increase
and enlarge, as a healthy growing plant; a thrive.
To be prosperous; to increase in wealth,
honor, comfort, happiness, or whatever is desirable; to thrive; to be
prominent and influental; specifically, of authors, painters, etc.,
to be in a state of activity or production.
To use florid language; to indulge in
rhetorical figures and lofty expressions; to be flowery.
To make bold and sweeping, fanciful, or
wanton movements, by way of ornament, parade, bravado, etc.; to play
with fantastic and irregular motion.
To make ornamental strokes with the pen;
to write graceful, decorative figures.
To execute an irregular or fanciful strain
of music, by way of ornament or prelude.
To boast; to vaunt; to brag.
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| Flourish (flourish) |
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| v. t. | |
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| Flour"ish |
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To adorn with flowers orbeautiful figures, either natural or
artificial; to ornament with anything showy; to embellish.
To embellish with the flowers of diction;
to adorn with rhetorical figures; to grace with ostentatious
eloquence; to set off with a parade of words.
To move in bold or irregular figures; to
swing about in circles or vibrations by way of show or triumph; to
brandish.
To develop; to make thrive; to
expand.
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| Flourish (flourish) |
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| n. | (?) |
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| Flour"ish |
| ; pl.
Flourishes ((?)). |
A
flourishing condition; prosperity; vigor.
Decoration; ornament; beauty.
Something made or performed in a fanciful,
wanton, or vaunting manner, by way of ostentation, to excite
admiration, etc.; ostentatious embellishment; ambitious copiousness
or amplification; parade of words and figures; show; as, a
flourish of rhetoric or of wit.
A fanciful stroke of the pen or graver; a
merely decorative figure.
A fantastic or decorative musical passage;
a strain of triumph or bravado, not forming part of a regular musical
composition; a cal; a fanfare.
The waving of a weapon or other thing; a
brandishing; as, the flourish of a sword.
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