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grow stronger; "The economy was booming"

gain in wealth

a showy gesture; "she entered with a great flourish"

an ornamental embellishment in writing

move or swing back and forth; "She waved her gun"

grow stronger; "The economy was booming"

gain in wealth

a showy gesture; "she entered with a great flourish"

an ornamental embellishment in writing

move or swing back and forth; "She waved her gun"

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

To prosper or thrive; be vigorous; be copious or flowery in language; make ornamental lines with a pen; boast or brag.

Swing about or brandish.

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.

Flourishing.

To thrive luxuriantly; to be prosperous; to use copious and flowery language; to make ornamental strokes with the pen.

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.

Decoration; ornamental stroke with a pen; parade; brandishing of a weapon, &c.; series of musical notes.

To brandish; swing about.

To thrive; be prosperous.

To thrive; prosper; live.

To swing or wave about.

To use flourishes.

An ornamental mark in writing; something for display.

The act of brandishing or waving.

Showy splendour; showy embellishment; parade of words and figures; figures formed by bold, irregular, or fanciful strokes of the pen or graver; a brandishing; the waving of a weapon or other thing; the decorative notes sometimes added for the sake of effect. Flourish of trumpets, the sounding of trumpets when receiving any officer or person of distinction; any ostentatious announcement.

To adorn with flowers or ornaments; to expand in a flowery way; to brandish; to parade about; to cinbellish with the flowers of diction; to garnish over.

To come out in blossom; to thrive; to prosper; to adorn with flowers; to wave or brandish; to embellish or adorn.

Blossom; showy splendour; parade of words; a sounding, as of trumpets; a bold stroke in writing.

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.

Bravery beauty; an ostentatious embellishment, ambitious copiousness; figures formed by lines curiously or wantonly drawn.