3. A state or time of beauty, freshness, and vigor; an opening to higher perfection, analogous to that of
buds into blossoms; as, the bloom of youth.
Every successive mother has transmitted a fainter bloom, a more delicate and briefer beauty.
Hawthorne.
4. The delicate, powdery coating upon certain growing or newly-gathered fruits or leaves, as on grapes,
plums, etc. Hence: Anything giving an appearance of attractive freshness; a flush; a glow.
A new, fresh, brilliant world, with all the bloom upon it.
Thackeray.
5. The clouded appearance which varnish sometimes takes upon the surface of a picture.
6. A yellowish deposit or powdery coating which appears on well-tanned leather. Knight.
7. (Min.) A popular term for a bright-hued variety of some minerals; as, the rose-red cobalt bloom.
Bloom
(Bloom), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Bloomed ; p. pr. & vb. n. Blooming.]
1. To produce or yield blossoms; to blossom; to flower or be in flower.
A flower which once
In Paradise, fast by the tree of life,
Began to bloom.
Milton.
2. To be in a state of healthful, growing youth and vigor; to show beauty and freshness, as of flowers; to
give promise, as by or with flowers.
A better country blooms to view,
Beneath a brighter sky.
Logan.
Bloom
(Bloom), v. t.
1. To cause to blossom; to make flourish. [R.]
Charitable affection bloomed them.
Hooker.
2. To bestow a bloom upon; to make blooming or radiant. [R.] Milton.
While barred clouds bloom the soft-dying day.
Keats.
Bloom
(Bloom), n. [AS. blma a mass or lump, isenes blma a lump or wedge of iron.] (Metal.) (a)
A mass of wrought iron from the Catalan forge or from the puddling furnace, deprived of its dross, and
shaped usually in the form of an oblong block by shingling. (b) A large bar of steel formed directly from
an ingot by hammering or rolling, being a preliminary shape for further working.
Bloomary
(Bloom"a*ry) n. See Bloomery.
Bloomer
(Bloom"er) n. [From Mrs. Bloomer, an American, who sought to introduce this style of dress.]
1. A costume for women, consisting of a short dress, with loose trousers gathered round ankles, and
(commonly) a broad-brimmed hat.
2. A woman who wears a Bloomer costume.
Bloomery
(Bloom"er*y) n. (Manuf.) A furnace and forge in which wrought iron in the form of blooms is
made directly from the ore, or (more rarely) from cast iron.
Blooming
(Bloom"ing), n. (Metal.) The process of making blooms from the ore or from cast iron.
