Blooming
(Bloom"ing), a.
1. Opening in blossoms; flowering.
2. Thriving in health, beauty, and vigor; indicating the freshness and beauties of youth or health.
Bloomingly
(Bloom"ing*ly), adv. In a blooming manner.
Bloomingness
(Bloom"ing*ness), n. A blooming condition.
Bloomless
(Bloom"less), a. Without bloom or flowers. Shelley.
Bloomy
(Bloom"y) a.
1. Full of bloom; flowery; flourishing with the vigor of youth; as, a bloomy spray.
But all the bloomy flush of life is fled.
Goldsmith.
2. Covered with bloom, as fruit. Dryden.
Blooth
(Blooth) n. Bloom; a blossoming. [Prov. Eng.]
All that blooth means heavy autumn work for him and his hands.
T. Hardy.
Blore
(Blore) n. [Perh. a variant of blare, v. i.; or cf. Gael. & Ir. blor a loud noise.] The act of blowing; a
roaring wind; a blast. [Obs.]
A most tempestuous blore.
Chapman.
Blosmy
(Blos"my) a. Blossomy. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Blossom
(Blos"som) n. [OE. blosme, blostme, AS. blosma, blostma, blossom; akin to D. bloesem,
L. fios, and E. flower; from the root of E. blow to blossom. See Blow to blossom, and cf. Bloom a
blossom.]
1. The flower of a plant, or the essential organs of reproduction, with their appendages; florescence; bloom; the
flowers of a plant, collectively; as, the blossoms and fruit of a tree; an apple tree in blossom.
The term has been applied by some botanists, and is also applied in common usage, to the corolla. It
is more commonly used than flower or bloom, when we have reference to the fruit which is to succeed.
Thus we use flowers when we speak of plants cultivated for ornament, and bloom in a more general
sense, as of flowers in general, or in reference to the beauty of flowers.
Blossoms flaunting in the eye of day.
Longfellow.
2. A blooming period or stage of development; something lovely that gives rich promise.
In the blossom of my youth.
Massinger.
3. The color of a horse that has white hairs intermixed with sorrel and bay hairs; — otherwise called
peach color.
In blossom, having the blossoms open; in bloom.
Blossom
(Blos"som), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Blossomed ; p. pr. & vb. n. Blossoming.] [AS. blstmian.
See Blossom, n.]
