FLOURISH
\flˈʌɹɪʃ], \flˈʌɹɪʃ], \f_l_ˈʌ_ɹ_ɪ_ʃ]\
Definitions of FLOURISH
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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grow stronger; "The economy was booming"
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gain in wealth
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a showy gesture; "she entered with a great flourish"
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an ornamental embellishment in writing
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move or swing back and forth; "She waved her gun"
By Princeton University
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grow stronger; "The economy was booming"
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gain in wealth
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a showy gesture; "she entered with a great flourish"
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an ornamental embellishment in writing
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move or swing back and forth; "She waved her gun"
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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To grow luxuriantly; to increase and enlarge, as a healthy growing plant; a thrive.
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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.
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To use florid language; to indulge in rhetorical figures and lofty expressions; to be flowery.
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To make bold and sweeping, fanciful, or wanton movements, by way of ornament, parade, bravado, etc.; to play with fantastic and irregular motion.
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To make ornamental strokes with the pen; to write graceful, decorative figures.
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To execute an irregular or fanciful strain of music, by way of ornament or prelude.
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To boast; to vaunt; to brag.
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To adorn with flowers orbeautiful figures, either natural or artificial; to ornament with anything showy; to embellish.
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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.
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To move in bold or irregular figures; to swing about in circles or vibrations by way of show or triumph; to brandish.
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To develop; to make thrive; to expand.
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A flourishing condition; prosperity; vigor.
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Decoration; ornament; beauty.
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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.
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A fanciful stroke of the pen or graver; a merely decorative figure.
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A fantastic or decorative musical passage; a strain of triumph or bravado, not forming part of a regular musical composition; a cal; a fanfare.
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The waving of a weapon or other thing; a brandishing; as, the flourish of a sword.
By Oddity Software
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To grow luxuriantly; to increase and enlarge, as a healthy growing plant; a thrive.
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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.
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To use florid language; to indulge in rhetorical figures and lofty expressions; to be flowery.
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To make bold and sweeping, fanciful, or wanton movements, by way of ornament, parade, bravado, etc.; to play with fantastic and irregular motion.
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To make ornamental strokes with the pen; to write graceful, decorative figures.
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To execute an irregular or fanciful strain of music, by way of ornament or prelude.
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To boast; to vaunt; to brag.
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To adorn with flowers orbeautiful figures, either natural or artificial; to ornament with anything showy; to embellish.
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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.
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To move in bold or irregular figures; to swing about in circles or vibrations by way of show or triumph; to brandish.
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To develop; to make thrive; to expand.
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A flourishing condition; prosperity; vigor.
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Decoration; ornament; beauty.
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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.
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A fanciful stroke of the pen or graver; a merely decorative figure.
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A fantastic or decorative musical passage; a strain of triumph or bravado, not forming part of a regular musical composition; a cal; a fanfare.
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The waving of a weapon or other thing; a brandishing; as, the flourish of a sword.
By Noah Webster.
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To prosper or thrive; be vigorous; be copious or flowery in language; make ornamental lines with a pen; boast or brag.
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Swing about or brandish.
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A figure formed by lines or strokes fancifully drawn; decoration; a musical passage intended only for display; Ostentatious or showy parade; a waving about, as of a sword.
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Flourishing.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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To thrive luxuriantly; to be prosperous; to use copious and flowery language; to make ornamental strokes with the pen.
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Decoration; showy splendor; a figure made by a bold stroke of the pen; the waving of a weapon or other thing; a parade of words; a musical prelude.
By Daniel Lyons
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Decoration; ornamental stroke with a pen; parade; brandishing of a weapon, &c.; series of musical notes.
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To brandish; swing about.
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To thrive; be prosperous.
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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To thrive; prosper; live.
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To swing or wave about.
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To use flourishes.
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An ornamental mark in writing; something for display.
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The act of brandishing or waving.
By James Champlin Fernald
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n. Decoration; ornament; showy splendour;—show or parade of figures or graces;—a fanciful stroke of the pen or graver;—the waving of a weapon or other thing; a brandishing;—a shake, arpeggio, cadenza, or other musical grace.
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Bravery beauty; an ostentatious embellishment, ambitious copiousness; figures formed by lines curiously or wantonly drawn.
By Thomas Sheridan
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