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Bloom   /blum/   Listen
noun
Bloom  n.  
1.
A blossom; the flower of a plant; an expanded bud; flowers, collectively. "The rich blooms of the tropics."
2.
The opening of flowers in general; the state of blossoming or of having the flowers open; as, the cherry trees are in bloom. "Sight of vernal bloom."
3.
A state or time of beauty, freshness, and vigor; an opening to higher perfection, analogous to that of buds into blossoms; as, the bloom of youth. "Every successive mother has transmitted a fainter bloom, a more delicate and briefer beauty."
4.
The delicate, powdery coating upon certain growing or newly-gathered fruits or leaves, as on grapes, plums, etc. Hence: Anything giving an appearance of attractive freshness; a flush; a glow. "A new, fresh, brilliant world, with all the bloom upon it."
5.
The clouded appearance which varnish sometimes takes upon the surface of a picture.
6.
A yellowish deposit or powdery coating which appears on well-tanned leather.
7.
(Min.) A popular term for a bright-hued variety of some minerals; as, the rose-red cobalt bloom.


Bloom  n.  (Metal.)
(a)
A mass of wrought iron from the Catalan forge or from the puddling furnace, deprived of its dross, and shaped usually in the form of an oblong block by shingling.
(b)
A large bar of steel formed directly from an ingot by hammering or rolling, being a preliminary shape for further working.


verb
Bloom  v. t.  
1.
To cause to blossom; to make flourish. (R.) "Charitable affection bloomed them."
2.
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)  
1.
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."
2.
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."





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"Bloom" Quotes from Famous Books



... breeze, like a lost, unseasonable butterfly, came in at the open window and stirred the filmy curtain, bearing on its soft breath the odor of narcissus from the bloom-laden window-box. ...
— The Crevice • William John Burns and Isabel Ostrander
... take the wrong kind of clothes out there with them. They have read in the advertisements that Southern California is a land of perpetual balm, where flowers bloom the year round; and they pack their trunks with the lightest and thinnest wearing apparel they own, which is a mistake. The natives know better than that. The all-wool sweater is the national garment of ...
— Roughing it De Luxe • Irvin S. Cobb
... bespangled. In this atmosphere without mists, the sharp outlines of the coast, the dense movelessness of the aspect, has an indescribable effect. It is like a hitherto unknown and virginal revelation of the earth. Then the stars bloom out, with a flame, an hallucinating palpability. Charles's Wain, burning low on the gorges of the Edough, seems like a golden waggon rolling through the fields of Heaven. A deep peace settles upon farmland and meadow country, only broken by ...
— Saint Augustin • Louis Bertrand
... Parliament, while behind them were seen the great roof of Westminster Hall and the noble towers of Westminster Abbey. As we sped along we admired the ancient cedars, which gave dignity to the Bishop's grounds, on the one side, and the elms, laburnums, and lilacs, then in full bloom, which partially shaded the quaint old mansions of Cheyne Row, on the other. Alas! the march of improvement and the inevitable extension of the metropolis is rapidly destroying these vestiges of the ...
— James Nasmyth's Autobiography • James Nasmyth
... of the Lord is the strength of His people. The sunshine that scatters their sadness and gloom; The fountain that bursts in the desert of sorrow, And sheds o'er the wilderness, gladness and bloom. ...
— Days of Heaven Upon Earth • Rev. A. B. Simpson


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