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verb

Flower v. t. To embellish with flowers; to adorn with imitated flowers; as, flowered silk.

Flower v. i. (past & past part. flowered; pres. part. flowering)

To blossom; to bloom; to expand the petals, as a plant; to produce flowers; as, this plant flowers in June.

To come into the finest or fairest condition. "Their lusty and flowering age." "When flowered my youthful spring."

To froth; to ferment gently, as new beer. "That beer did flower a little."

To come off as flowers by sublimation. (Obs.) "Observations which have flowered off."

adjective

flowered adj. Resembling or made of or suggestive of flowers.

Synonyms: floral.

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Etymology of 'Flowered'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... saw a grave Chinaman standing on a stage-like platform. He wore a long coat, beautifully flowered, and a hat with a turned up brim. Balanced on his nose were enormous tortoise-shell spectacles. A ragged gray moustache drooped from the corners of his mouth and a ragged wisp of whisker hung from his chin. She was informed ...

— The Ragged Edge • Harold MacGrath

... letters, however, do show the transition stage between the rough elemental humor of the Comstock and the refined and subtle style which flowered in the Innocents Abroad. Certainly Mark Twain's genius was finding itself, and his association with the refined and cultured personality of Anson Burlingame undoubtedly aided in that discovery. Burlingame pointed out his faults to him, and directed him to a better ...

— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain

... persons you have been living with, my dear, —said Mrs. Midas—[the "My dear" was an expression which had flowered out more luxuriantly than ever before in the new streak of sunshine] —eminently respectable parties, I have no question, but then we shall want you to move as soon as possible to our quarter of the ...

— The Poet at the Breakfast Table • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

... spite of Mr. Cobden) among our chief text-books of political wisdom, has often seemed to me one of the most mournful books in the world. At no other spot on the earth's surface, and at no other time in the career of mankind, has the human intellect flowered with such luxuriance as at Athens during the eighty-five years which intervened between the victory of Marathon and the defeat of AEgospotamos. In no other like interval of time, and in no other community of like dimensions, has so much work been accomplished of which ...

— American Political Ideas Viewed From The Standpoint Of Universal History • John Fiske

... taken the trough might have been embowered. The season seems to have been too damp for the night-jars, though quite to the taste of all species of pigeons. In the course of a few minutes the voice of the timid, tremulous, barred-shouldered dove came from among the yellow-flowered hibiscus of the beach, while the pheasant-tailed pigeon sounded its rich, dual note, the red-crowned fruit pigeon tolled its mournful chime, and the guttural of the magnificent fruit pigeon—often heard, but seldom seen—came from the ...

— Tropic Days • E. J. Banfield

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