Crossword-Solution: FLOURISH
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Flourish | v. i. | To grow luxuriantly; to increase and enlarge, as a healthy growing plant; a thrive. |
| Flourish | v. i. | 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. |
| Flourish | v. i. | To use florid language; to indulge in rhetorical figures and lofty expressions; to be flowery. |
| Flourish | v. i. | To make bold and sweeping, fanciful, or wanton movements, by way of ornament, parade, bravado, etc.; to play with fantastic and irregular motion. |
| Flourish | v. i. | To make ornamental strokes with the pen; to write graceful, decorative figures. |
| Flourish | v. i. | To execute an irregular or fanciful strain of music, by way of ornament or prelude. |
| Flourish | v. i. | To boast; to vaunt; to brag. |
| Flourish | v. t. | To adorn with flowers orbeautiful figures, either natural or artificial; to ornament with anything showy; to embellish. |
| 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 | v. t. | To move in bold or irregular figures; to swing about in circles or vibrations by way of show or triumph; to brandish. |
| Flourish | v. t. | To develop; to make thrive; to expand. |
| Flourish | n. | A flourishing condition; prosperity; vigor. |
| Flourish | n. | Decoration; ornament; beauty. |
| Flourish | n. | 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. |
| Flourish | n. | A fanciful stroke of the pen or graver; a merely decorative figure. |
| Flourish | n. | A fantastic or decorative musical passage; a strain of triumph or bravado, not forming part of a regular musical composition; a cal; a fanfare. |
| Flourish | n. | The waving of a weapon or other thing; a brandishing; as, the flourish of a sword. |
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An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
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eruption
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Sentences with FLOURISH (5)
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Now then again—the next bar; I’ll help ye to flourish up the shrill notes where yer wind is rather wheezy:— “Oh the wi′-il-lo′-ow tree’ will′ twist′, And the wil′-low′ tre′-ee wi′ill twine′.” But the singer could not be set going again.
Human nature will not flourish, any more than a potato, if it be planted and re-planted, for too long a series of generations, in the same worn-out soil.
Yet it was evident that if I was to flourish matches with my hands I should have to abandon my firewood; so, rather reluctantly, I put it down.
Your mere puny stripling, that winced at the least flourish of the rod, was passed by with indulgence; but the claims of justice were satisfied by inflicting a double portion on some little tough wrong-headed, broad-skirted Dutch urchin, who sulked and swelled and grew dogged and sullen beneath the birch.
Quotes with FLOURISH (3)
If names be not correct, language is not in accordance with the truth of things. If language be not in accordance with the truth of things, affairs cannot be carried on to success. When affairs cannot be carried on to success, proprieties and music do not flourish.
Sing and rejoice ye children of the day and the light; for the Lord is at work in this thick night of darkness that may be felt: and the Truth doth flourish as the rose, and lilies do grow among the thorns and the plants atop the hills, and upon them the lambs doth skip and play.
If they say you will fall, rise. If they say you will fail, succeed. If they say you will break, kept it together. If they say you will deteriorate, flourish.
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Appears in: Newsday, NYT, Universal, WSJ.
Used 7 times in crossword archives (1954–2023).