flouret, flourette

[O. Fr. florete, flurette: Fr. fleurette, dim in. of fleur a flower.] A little flower, a floweret. *flour-ing, pr . par ., a. & s. [FLOWER, v.] flour-Ish, *flor-esh, *flor-ische, *for-ish, *flor-is he, flor-i h-en, *flor-ysh, fior-schyn, v . i . & t. [Fr. fleuri ant , pr. par. of fleurir =to flourish, from Lat. floresco, incept. of floreo =to flower, to bloom, from flos (gen it. flor is ) =a flower; Sp. & Port. florecer .] IMG:content-1798.png:[blocks in formation] "The figetree shal not flor is she."- Wycliffe : Habakkuk iii. 17. 2. To be in a prosperous state; to be prosperous; to increase in wealth, honor, or happine ; to thrive, to prospeг. "In his days shall the righteous flourish ."- Ps . lxxii. 7. 3. To be at the height of power, honor, fame, or excellence. "In our schoolbooks we say Of those that held their heads above the crowd, They flourished then and then." Tennyson: Brook , 11. pine, pit, sire, sir, marine; gō, pot, flourish 4. To grow, to increase, to thrive. "Patriots, alas! the few that have been found Where most they flourish upon English ground." Cowper : Table Talk , 336, 337. 5. To use florid language; to indulge in flowers of rhetoric and highly embellished diction. "They dilate sometimes, and flourish long upon little incidents, and they skip over and but lightly touch the dryer part of their theme."- Watts : Logic. *6. To boast, to vaunt, to brag. *7. To describe various figures; to move in fantastic shapes or figures. 8. To make bold and fanciful strokes in writing. *9. To brandish a sword. "To him that flourished for her with his sword." Shakesp.: Titus Andronicus, i. 2. II. Music : 1. To play in a bold, dashing style with numerous ornamental notes. 2. To sound a flourish or fanfare. "Why do the emperor's trumpets flourish thus?" Shakesp.: Titus Andronicus, iv. 2. B. Transitive : *1. To adorn with floral beauties. "How God almyghti of His grete grace Hath flourished the erthe on every side." Lydgate: Minor Poems, p. 78. *2. To cause to thrive, prosper, or expand; to develop. *3. To adorn with flowers or floral ornamentation. "Floryschyn bokys. Floro ." -Prompt . Parv. *4. To ornament, set out, or improve in any way. "A castel wel flourished with cornel les." Richard Cœur de Lion , 1,842. *5. To adorn with figures of needlework; to embroider. *6. To work with a needle into ornamental figures. "All that I shall say will be but like bottoms of thread close wound up, which, with a good needle, perhaps may be flourished into large works." -Bacon: War with Spain. 7. To move in quick circles or figures; to swing about in the hand; to brandish. "My sword, I say; old Montague is come, And flourishes his blade in spite of me." Shakesp .: Romeo and Juliet, i. 1. *8. To embellish or adorn with flowers of rhetoric or highly-flown language. "The labors of Hercules, though flourished with such fabulous matter, yet notably set forth the consent of all nations and ages in the approbation of the extirpating and debel lat ing monsters and tyrants." -Bacon. (Johnson.) *9. To color; to varnish or glo over. "To bring you thus together, 'tis no sin Sith that the justice of your title to him Doth flourish the deceit." Shakesp.: Measure for Measure, iv. 1. Crabb thus discriminates between to flourish , to thrive, and to prosper : "To flourish expre es the state of being that which is desirable; to thrive the proce of becoming so. In the proper sense flour ish and thrive are applied to the vegetation: the former to that which is full grown; the latter to that which is in the act of growing: the oldest trees are said to flourish , which put forth their leaves and fruits in full vigor; young trees thrive when they increase rapidly toward their full growth. Flour ish and thrive are taken likewise in the moral sense; prosper is employed only in this sense: flourish is said either of individuals or communities of men; thrive and prosper only of individuals. To flourish is to be in full po e ion of the powers, physical, intellectual, and incidental; an author flourishes at a certain period; an institution flourishes; liter ature or trade flourishes : a nation flourishes . Το thrive is to carry on one's concerns to the advantage of one's circumstances; it is a term of familiar use for those who gain by positive labor: the industrious tradesman thrives . To prosper is to be already in advantageous circumstances: men prosper who accumulate wealth agreeably to their wishes and beyond their expectations." (Crabb: Eng . Synon.) flour-Ish, s . [FLOURISH, v .] I. Ordinary Language: *1. A flourishing condition; a state of prosperity. "Rome was in that flourish that Saint Austin desired to see her in." - Howell . *2. Showy or ambitious splendor; bravery; show; ostentation. "I called thee then vain flourish of my fortune; I called thee then poor shadow, painted queen." Shakesp.: Richard III ., iv. 4. *3. Ostentatious embellishment; far-fetched elegance or floridne of diction. "By a flourish of fine words they devise shifts, evasions, and justifications."-P. Holland; Plutarch , p. 62. IMG:content-1799.png:[blocks in formation] (2) The old English name for a call, fanfare, or prelude for trumpets or other instruments together or alone. "Then the fierce trumpet flourish From earth to heaven arose." Macaulay: Battle of the Lake Regillus , xxxvi. (3) The preparatory cadenza for "tuning the voice," in which singers formerly indulged just before commencing their song. ( Stainer & Barrett .) *flour'-Ish-a-ble, a. [English flourish; -able.] Blooming; attractive. "More fallible in their certainty than four is hable in their bravery."- Adams: Works, i. 217. flour'-Ished, pa. par. & a. [FLOURISH, v.] A. As pa . par .: (See the verb.) B. As adjective : 1. Ordinary Language: (1) Adorned with flourishes or fanciful ornamental strokes. (2) Adorned with flowers; flourishing. "Each beauteous flower Rais'd high their flourished heads." Milton: P. L. , iv. 699. IMG:content-1800.png:[blocks in formation] For not our greatest flourisher can equal him in power." Chapman: Homer's Iliad. †2. One who flourishes or brandishes about a sword, . *3. One who makes use of flourishes or florid language. "He was not an orator, as commonly understood that is, not a flourisher ; but all his speech was fluent, easy, and familiar."-R. North: Life of Lord Keeper North. flour'-Ish-ing, *fior-ish-ing, pr. par., a. & s. [FLOURISH, ν.] A. & B. As pr. par. & particip. adj.: (See the verb.) C. As substantive: 1. The state of prospering or being in a prosperous condition. 2. The act of waving or brandishing about, as a sword. flour-Ish-ing-ly, *flour-ish-ing-lye, adverb. [Eng. flourishing; ly.] 1. In a flourishing or prosperous manner; prosperously. 2. With flourishes or ostentation; ostentatiously. *flour-on, *flour-oon, *flowr-oun, s . [Old Fr. flor on , fleuron.) A little crown; a coronet. *nour-ý, a . [O. Fr. flor i, flour i.] IMG:content-1801.png:[blocks in formation] A. Trans.: Τo mock, to jeer, to insult; to treat with contempt. "Let him perceive how ill we brook his treason; And what offense it is to flout his friends." Shakesp.: Henry VI., Pt. I., iv. 1. B. In trans. To jeer, to sneer, to behave with contempt or mockery. (Followed by at.) "Though nature hath given us wit to flout at fortune, hath not fortune sent in this fool to cut off this argument?"-Shakesp.: As You Like It , i. 2.