flourish

1. v. i. To grow luxuriantly; to increase and enlarge, as a healthy growing plant; a thrive. Source: opted

2. 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. Source: opted

3. v. i. To use florid language; to indulge in rhetorical figures and lofty expressions; to be flowery. Source: opted

4. 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. Source: opted

5. v. i. To make ornamental strokes with the pen; to write graceful, decorative figures. Source: opted

6. v. i. To execute an irregular or fanciful strain of music, by way of ornament or prelude. Source: opted

7. v. i. To boast; to vaunt; to brag. Source: opted

8. v. t. To adorn with flowers orbeautiful figures, either natural or artificial; to ornament with anything showy; to embellish. Source: opted

9. 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. Source: opted

10. v. t. To move in bold or irregular figures; to swing about in circles or vibrations by way of show or triumph; to brandish. Source: opted

11. v. t. To develop; to make thrive; to expand. Source: opted

12. n. A flourishing condition; prosperity; vigor. Source: opted

13. n. Decoration; ornament; beauty. Source: opted

14. 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. Source: opted

15. n. A fanciful stroke of the pen or graver; a merely decorative figure. Source: opted

16. 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. Source: opted

17. n. The waving of a weapon or other thing; a brandishing; as, the flourish of a sword. Source: opted

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