Flourish

flur'ish, v.i. to thrive luxuriantly to be prosperous to use copious and wci y language 10 make ornamental strokes with the pen.— Flourished = lived (L. floruit) — to adorn with flourishes or ornaments to swing about by way of show or triumph. (M- F. flonsiAen— Fr. fleitnr, from L floresiere, to blo om—flos.) Flourish, flur'ish, «. decoration showy splendour a figure made by a bold stroke of the pen the waving of a weapon or other thing a parade of words: a musical prelude.