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flourish

Verb

∙ To thrive or grow well. intransitive
∙ To prosper or fare well. intransitive
∙ To be in a period of greatest influence. intransitive
∙ To develop; to make thrive; to expand. transitive
∙ To make bold, sweeping movements with. transitive
∙ To make bold and sweeping, fanciful, or wanton movements, by way of ornament, parade, bravado, etc.; to play with fantastic and irregular motion. intransitive
∙ To use florid language; to indulge in rhetorical figures and lofty expressions. intransitive
∙ To make ornamental strokes with the pen; to write graceful, decorative figures. intransitive
∙ To adorn with beautiful figures or rhetoric; to ornament with anything showy; to embellish. transitive
∙ To execute an irregular or fanciful strain of music, by way of ornament or prelude. intransitive
∙ To boast; to vaunt; to brag. intransitive, obsolete

Noun

∙ A dramatic gesture such as the waving of a flag.
∙ An ornamentation.
∙ A ceremonious passage such as a fanfare. music
∙ A decorative embellishment on a building. architecture

BABYLON ENGLISH
flourish v.
wave, brandish (i.e. a sword); thrive; grow and develop in a healthy manner; prosper, succeed; add decorative elements (especially to handwriting)
act of waving or flourishing (i.e. a sword); pretentious display; decorative addition (especially in handwriting); period of healthy growth and development

HENGLISH - ADVANCED VERSION
flourish
flourish
\flour"ish\ (?), n.; pl. flourishes (&?;).
1. a flourishing condition; prosperity; vigor. [archaic] the roman monarchy, in her highest flourish, never had the like.
2. decoration; ornament; beauty. the flourish of his sober youth was the pride of naked truth. rashaw.
3. 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. he lards with flourishes his long harangue.
4. a fanciful stroke of the pen or graver; a merely decorative figure. the neat characters and flourishes of a bible curiously printed.
5. a fantastic or decorative musical passage; a strain of triumph or bravado, not forming part of a regular musical composition; a cal; a fanfare. a flourish, trumpets! strike alarum, drums!
6. the waving of a weapon or other thing; a brandishing; as, the flourish of a sword.
flourish
\flour"ish\ (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p. flourished (?); p. pr. & vb. n. flourishing.] [oe. florisshen, flurisshen, of. flurir, f. fleurir, fr. l. florere to bloom, fr. flos, floris, flower. see flower, and -ish.] 1. to grow luxuriantly; to increase and enlarge, as a healthy growing plant; a thrive. a tree thrives and flourishes in a kindly soil. horne.
2. 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. when all the workers of iniquity do flourish. xcii 7 bad men as frequently prosper and flourish, and that by the means of their wickedness. --nelson. we say of those that held their heads above the crowd, they flourished then or then.
3. to use florid language; to indulge in rhetorical figures and lofty expressions; to be flowery. they dilate and flourish long on little incidents. watts.
4. to make bold and sweeping, fanciful, or wanton movements, by way of ornament, parade, bravado, etc.; to play with fantastic and irregular motion. impetuous spread the stream, and smoking flourished o'er his head.
5. to make ornamental strokes with the pen; to write graceful, decorative figures.
6. to execute an irregular or fanciful strain of music, by way of ornament or prelude. why do the emperor's trumpets flourish thus?
7. to boast; to vaunt; to brag.
flourish
\flour"ish\, v. t. 1. to adorn with flowers orbeautiful figures, either natural or artificial; to ornament with anything showy; to embellish. [obs.]
2. 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. [obs.] sith that the justice of your title to him doth flourish the deceit.
3. to move in bold or irregular figures; to swing about in circles or vibrations by way of show or triumph; to brandish. and flourishes his blade in spite of me.
4. to develop; to make thrive; to expand. [obs.] bottoms of thread which with a good needle, perhaps may be flourished into large works.
flourish
n
1. a showy gesture; "she entered with a great flourish"
2. an ornamental embellishment in writing
3. a display of ornamental speech or language
4. the act of waving [syn: brandish]

5. a short lively tune played on brass instruments; "he entered to a flourish of trumpets"; "her arrival was greeted with a rousing fanfare" [syn: fanfare]
v 1: grow stronger; "the economy was booming" [sy

WORDNET 2.0
flourish
Noun
1. a showy gesture; "she entered with a great flourish"
(hypernym) gesture, motion
2. an ornamental embellishment in writing
(hypernym) embellishment
(hyponym) paraph
3. a display of ornamental speech or language
(hypernym) grandiosity, magniloquence, grandiloquence, rhetoric
4. the act of waving
(synonym) brandish
(hypernym) wave, waving, wafture
(derivation) brandish, wave
5. (music) a short lively tune played on brass instruments; "he entered to a flourish of trumpets"; "her arrival was greeted with a rousing fanfare"
(synonym) fanfare, tucket
(hypernym) tune, melody, air, strain, melodic line, line, melodic phrase
(classification) music
Verb
1. grow stronger; "The economy was booming"
(synonym) boom, prosper, thrive, get ahead, expand
(hypernym) grow
(hyponym) revive
2. gain in wealth
(synonym) thrive, prosper, fly high
(hypernym) change state, turn
3. move or swing back and forth; "She waved her gun"
(synonym) brandish, wave
(hypernym) move, displace
(hyponym) wigwag
(entail) hold, take hold
(derivation) brandish

ENGLISH WIKIPEDIA - THE FREE ENCYCLOPEDIA
Flourish
The term flourish may refer to:Flourish (fanfare), ceremonial music played on a bugleA decorative curl or in typography or handwriting, see Swash (typography)"to bloom", of a person's or a culture's peak activity; Latin floruit "bloomed" refers to a person's known period of activity.Card flourish, a stage magic term for a visual display of skill.Especially in Renaissance fencing, Twirling of the weapon as a display of dexterity.Flourish (film), a comedic thrillerFlourishing in positive psychology, is living in an optimal range of human functioning.
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flourish

Verb

∙ To thrive or grow well. intransitive

∙ To prosper or fare well. intransitive

∙ To be in a period of greatest influence. intransitive

∙ To develop; to make thrive; to expand. transitive

∙ To make bold, sweeping movements with. transitive

∙ To make bold and sweeping, fanciful, or wanton movements, by way of ornament, parade, bravado, etc.; to play with fantastic and irregular motion. intransitive

∙ To use florid language; to indulge in rhetorical figures and lofty expressions. intransitive

∙ To make ornamental strokes with the pen; to write graceful, decorative figures. intransitive

∙ To adorn with beautiful figures or rhetoric; to ornament with anything showy; to embellish. transitive

∙ To execute an irregular or fanciful strain of music, by way of ornament or prelude. intransitive

∙ To boast; to vaunt; to brag. intransitive, obsolete

Noun

∙ A dramatic gesture such as the waving of a flag.

∙ An ornamentation.

∙ A ceremonious passage such as a fanfare. music

∙ A decorative embellishment on a building. architecture

BABYLON ENGLISH
flourish v.
wave, brandish (i.e. a sword); thrive; grow and develop in a healthy manner; prosper, succeed; add decorative elements (especially to handwriting)
act of waving or flourishing (i.e. a sword); pretentious display; decorative addition (especially in handwriting); period of healthy growth and development

HENGLISH - ADVANCED VERSION
flourish
flourish
\flour"ish\ (?), n.; pl. flourishes (&?;).
1. a flourishing condition; prosperity; vigor. [archaic] the roman monarchy, in her highest flourish, never had the like.
2. decoration; ornament; beauty. the flourish of his sober youth was the pride of naked truth. rashaw.
3. 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. he lards with flourishes his long harangue.
4. a fanciful stroke of the pen or graver; a merely decorative figure. the neat characters and flourishes of a bible curiously printed.
5. a fantastic or decorative musical passage; a strain of triumph or bravado, not forming part of a regular musical composition; a cal; a fanfare. a flourish, trumpets! strike alarum, drums!
6. the waving of a weapon or other thing; a brandishing; as, the flourish of a sword.
flourish
\flour"ish\ (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p. flourished (?); p. pr. & vb. n. flourishing.] [oe. florisshen, flurisshen, of. flurir, f. fleurir, fr. l. florere to bloom, fr. flos, floris, flower. see flower, and -ish.] 1. to grow luxuriantly; to increase and enlarge, as a healthy growing plant; a thrive. a tree thrives and flourishes in a kindly soil. horne.
2. 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. when all the workers of iniquity do flourish. xcii 7 bad men as frequently prosper and flourish, and that by the means of their wickedness. --nelson. we say of those that held their heads above the crowd, they flourished then or then.
3. to use florid language; to indulge in rhetorical figures and lofty expressions; to be flowery. they dilate and flourish long on little incidents. watts.
4. to make bold and sweeping, fanciful, or wanton movements, by way of ornament, parade, bravado, etc.; to play with fantastic and irregular motion. impetuous spread the stream, and smoking flourished o'er his head.
5. to make ornamental strokes with the pen; to write graceful, decorative figures.
6. to execute an irregular or fanciful strain of music, by way of ornament or prelude. why do the emperor's trumpets flourish thus?
7. to boast; to vaunt; to brag.
flourish
\flour"ish\, v. t. 1. to adorn with flowers orbeautiful figures, either natural or artificial; to ornament with anything showy; to embellish. [obs.]
2. 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. [obs.] sith that the justice of your title to him doth flourish the deceit.
3. to move in bold or irregular figures; to swing about in circles or vibrations by way of show or triumph; to brandish. and flourishes his blade in spite of me.
4. to develop; to make thrive; to expand. [obs.] bottoms of thread which with a good needle, perhaps may be flourished into large works.
flourish
n
1. a showy gesture; "she entered with a great flourish"
2. an ornamental embellishment in writing
3. a display of ornamental speech or language
4. the act of waving [syn: brandish]

5. a short lively tune played on brass instruments; "he entered to a flourish of trumpets"; "her arrival was greeted with a rousing fanfare" [syn: fanfare]
v 1: grow stronger; "the economy was booming" [sy

WORDNET 2.0
flourish
Noun
1. a showy gesture; "she entered with a great flourish"
(hypernym) gesture, motion
2. an ornamental embellishment in writing
(hypernym) embellishment
(hyponym) paraph
3. a display of ornamental speech or language
(hypernym) grandiosity, magniloquence, grandiloquence, rhetoric
4. the act of waving
(synonym) brandish
(hypernym) wave, waving, wafture
(derivation) brandish, wave
5. (music) a short lively tune played on brass instruments; "he entered to a flourish of trumpets"; "her arrival was greeted with a rousing fanfare"
(synonym) fanfare, tucket
(hypernym) tune, melody, air, strain, melodic line, line, melodic phrase
(classification) music
Verb
1. grow stronger; "The economy was booming"
(synonym) boom, prosper, thrive, get ahead, expand
(hypernym) grow
(hyponym) revive
2. gain in wealth
(synonym) thrive, prosper, fly high
(hypernym) change state, turn
3. move or swing back and forth; "She waved her gun"
(synonym) brandish, wave
(hypernym) move, displace
(hyponym) wigwag
(entail) hold, take hold
(derivation) brandish

ENGLISH WIKIPEDIA - THE FREE ENCYCLOPEDIA
Flourish
The term flourish may refer to:Flourish (fanfare), ceremonial music played on a bugleA decorative curl or in typography or handwriting, see Swash (typography)"to bloom", of a person's or a culture's peak activity; Latin floruit "bloomed" refers to a person's known period of activity.Card flourish, a stage magic term for a visual display of skill.Especially in Renaissance fencing, Twirling of the weapon as a display of dexterity.Flourish (film), a comedic thrillerFlourishing in positive psychology, is living in an optimal range of human functioning.
See more at Wikipedia.org...

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