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adjective

Blooming adj.

Opening in blossoms; flowering.

Thriving in health, beauty, and vigor; indicating the freshness and beauties of youth or health.

verb

Bloom v. t.

To cause to blossom; to make flourish. (R.) "Charitable affection bloomed them."

To bestow a bloom upon; to make blooming or radiant. (R.) "While barred clouds bloom the soft-dying day."

Bloom v. i. (past & past part. bloomed; pres. part. blooming)

To produce or yield blossoms; to blossom; to flower or be in flower. "A flower which once In Paradise, fast by the tree of life, Began to bloom."

To be in a state of healthful, growing youth and vigor; to show beauty and freshness, as of flowers; to give promise, as by or with flowers. "A better country blooms to view," "Beneath a brighter sky."

noun

Blooming n. (Metal.) The process of making blooms from the ore or from cast iron.

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Etymology of 'Blooming'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Blooming" Quotes from Famous Books

... on the bold brows of the warriors, or the gentler and paler features of their faithful companions; their frames, indeed, showed the effect of wandering and anxiety; many an eye which had been bright was sunken, many a blooming cheek was paled; but the lip yet smiled, the voice had yet its gleesome tones to soothe and cheer their warrior friends; the eager wish to prepare the couch and dress the simple meal, to perform those many little ...

— The Days of Bruce Vol 1 - A Story from Scottish History • Grace Aguilar

... Mozambiques, as they call them, are hideous. Malay here seems equivalent to Mohammedan. They were originally Malays, but now they include every shade, from the blackest nigger to the most blooming English woman. Yes, indeed, the emigrant-girls have been known to turn 'Malays', and get thereby husbands who know not billiards and brandy—the two diseases of Capetown. They risked a plurality of wives, and professed Islam, but they ...

— Letters from the Cape • Lady Duff Gordon

... living is so much more expensive than in the country"—with no Redford to draw upon—"I surrounded my wife with the comforts that were her due, and which I fully believed she had every right to." He waved his hand over the still blooming Axminster carpet and the brocaded suite the family was not allowed to sit on. "I spent—we spent the little capital represented by your father's wedding present—I had an erroneous idea that it was to be an annual allowance pending the eventual division of the ...

— Sisters • Ada Cambridge

... Streets. The grounds sloped toward the banks of the river. It had a broad piazza looking south, and before it lay a green lawn shaded by Lombardy poplars and a cottonwood tree. Across the river rose Fort Dearborn, amid groves of locust trees, the national flag blooming, as ...

— In The Boyhood of Lincoln - A Tale of the Tunker Schoolmaster and the Times of Black Hawk • Hezekiah Butterworth

... of being alone, she ran swiftly down one of the paths, and across by another. Then she stopped short and bent down a great bough of blooming roses and buried her beautiful dark face in the sweet leaves and smelled the ...

— Marzio's Crucifix and Zoroaster • F. Marion Crawford

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