Definition of flourish

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Flourish (v. t.) 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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Overflourish :: Overflourish (v. t.) To embellish with outward ornaments or flourishes; to varnish over.
Flourish :: Flourish (v. t.) 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.
Flourish :: Flourish (n.) A fanciful stroke of the pen or graver; a merely decorative figure.
Flourishingly :: Flourishingly (adv.) In a flourishing manner; ostentatiously.
Mote :: Mote (n.) The flourish sounded on a horn by a huntsman. See Mot, n., 3, and Mort..
Grow :: Grow (v. i.) To spring up and come to matturity in a natural way; to be produced by vegetation; to thrive; to flourish; as, rice grows in warm countries..
Vernant :: Vernant (a.) Flourishing, as in spring; vernal..
Paraph :: Paraph (n.) A flourish made with the pen at the end of a signature. In the Middle Ages, this formed a sort of rude safeguard against forgery..
Dash :: Dash (n.) A vain show; a blustering parade; a flourish; as, to make or cut a great dash..
Verdant :: Verdant (a.) Covered with growing plants or grass; green; fresh; flourishing; as, verdant fields; a verdant lawn..
Curlycue :: Curlycue (n.) Some thing curled or spiral,, as a flourish made with a pen on paper, or with skates on the ice; a trick; a frolicsome caper..
Flourish :: Flourish (v. i.) To execute an irregular or fanciful strain of music, by way of ornament or prelude..
Box :: Box (n.) A tree or shrub, flourishing in different parts of the world. The common box (Buxus sempervirens) has two varieties, one of which, the dwarf box (B. suffruticosa), is much used for borders in gardens. The wood of the tree varieties, being very hard and smooth, is extensively used in the arts, as by turners, engravers, mathematical instrument makers, etc..
Fanfare :: Fanfare (n.) A flourish of trumpets, as in coming into the lists, etc.; also, a short and lively air performed on hunting horns during the chase..
Flourish :: Flourish (v. t.) To develop; to make thrive; to expand.
Flourish :: Flourish (v. t.) To move in bold or irregular figures; to swing about in circles or vibrations by way of show or triumph; to brandish.
Rhetorical :: Rhetorical (a.) Of or pertaining to rhetoric; according to, or exhibiting, rhetoric; oratorical; as, the rhetorical art; a rhetorical treatise; a rhetorical flourish..
Tucket :: Tucket (n.) A slight flourish on a trumpet; a fanfare.
Bloom :: Bloom (v. t.) To cause to blossom; to make flourish.
Brandish :: Brandish (n.) To play with; to flourish; as, to brandish syllogisms..
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