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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

... grew later in the afternoon, and we rowed leisurely up the gentle stream, shut in between fragrant and blooming banks, where we had first pitched our tent, and drew nearer to the fields where our lives had passed, we seemed to detect the hues of our native sky in the southwest horizon. The sun was just setting behind the edge of a wooded hill, ...

— A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers • Henry David Thoreau

... this narrative, and I have always thought the regular pair of blooming lilies delicious. I told Tom that I had known the poor old Slasher, and he spoke of ...

— The Making Of A Novelist - An Experiment In Autobiography • David Christie Murray

... four days on this letter, for the gout comes now to me oftener than it did, and I do not know when I may again write to thee with my own hand; so I resolved I would e'en empty my whole budget at once. Thy mother is well and blooming; she is, at the present, abstractedly employed in a prodigious piece of tapestry which old Nicholls informs me is the wonder of all ...

— Devereux, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton

... Venice the island of Cyprus had long loomed large and fair—Cyprus, the happy isle of romance, l'isola fortunata, sea-girdled, clothed with dense forests of precious woods, veined with inexhaustible mines of rich metals; a very garden of luscious fruits, garlanded with ever-blooming flowers—a land flowing with milk and honey and steeped in the fragrance of wines ...

— The Royal Pawn of Venice - A Romance of Cyprus • Mrs. Lawrence Turnbull

... muttered, as his eye rested on the blooming girl, looking more like a rose than ever in the peach-colored silk which he had once condemned because a rival admired it. She turned to reply to the major, and Annon glanced at Treherne with an irrepressible frown, for sickness had not marred the charm of that peculiar face, so ...

— The Abbot's Ghost, Or Maurice Treherne's Temptation • A. M. Barnard

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