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FLOURISH, flur'ish. L. floresco, from floreo. The primary sense is to open, expand, enlarge, or to shoot out, as in glory, L. ploro.

1. To thrive to grow luxuriantly to increase and enlarge, as a healthy growing plant. The beech and the maple flourish best in a deep, rich and moist loam.

2. To be prosperous to increase in wealth or honor.

Bad men as frequently prosper and flourish, and that by the means of their wickedness.

When all the workers of iniquity do flourish. Psalms 92 .

3. To grow in grace and in good works to abound in the consolations of religion.

The righteous shall flourish like the palmtree. Psalms 92 .

4. To be in a prosperous state to grow or be augmented. We say agriculture flourishes, commerce flourishes, manufactures flourish.

5. To use florid language to make a display of figures and lofty expressions to be copious and flowery.

They dilate and flourish long on little incidents.

6. To make bold strokes in writing to make large and irregular lines as, to flourish with the pen.

7. To move or play in bold and irregular figures.

Impetuous spread the stream, and smoking, flourished o're his head.

8. In music, to play with bold and irregular notes, or without settled form as, to flourish on an organ or violin.

9. To boast to vaunt to brag.

FLOURISH, flur'ish.

1. To adorn with flowers or beautiful figures, either natural or artificial to ornament with any thing showy.

2. To spread out to enlarge into figures.

3. To move in bold or irregular figures to move in circles or vibrations by way of show or triumph to brandish as, to flourish a sword.

4. 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.

5. To adorn to embellish.

6. To mark with a flourish or irregular stroke.

The day book and inventory book shall be flourished.

FLOURISH, n. flur'ish.

1. Beauty showy splendor.

The flourish of his sober youth.

2. Ostentatious embellishment ambitious copiousness or amplification parade of words and figures show as a flourish of rhetoric a flourish of wit.

He lards with flourishes his long harangue.

3. Figures formed by bold, irregular lines, or fanciful strokes of the pen or graver as the flourishes about a great letter.

4. A brandishing the waving of a weapon or other thing as the flourish of a sword.