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   Flower , v. i. [imp. & p. p. Flowered ; p. pr. & vb. n. Flowering.] [From the noun. Cf. Flourish.]
   To blossom; to bloom; to expand the petals, as a plant; to produce flowers; as, this plant flowers in June.
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   To come into the finest or fairest condition.
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   Their lusty and flowering age.
   Robynson (More's Utopia).
   
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   When flowered my youthful spring.
   Spenser.
   
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   To froth; to ferment gently, as new beer.
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   That beer did flower a little.
   Bacon.
   
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   To come off as flowers by sublimation. [Obs.]
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   Observations which have flowered off.
   Milton.
   
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   Flowering, a. (Bot.) Having conspicuous flowers; -- used as an epithet with many names of plants; as, flowering ash; flowering dogwood; flowering almond, etc.
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   Flowering fern, a genus of showy ferns (Osmunda), with conspicuous bivalvular sporangia. They usually grow in wet places. -- Flowering plants, plants which have stamens and pistils, and produce true seeds; phenogamous plants; -- distinguished from flowerless plants. -- Flowering rush, a European rushlike plant (Butomus umbellatus), with an umbel of rosy blossoms.
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   Flowering, n.
   The act of blossoming, or the season when plants blossom; florification.
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   The act of adorning with flowers.
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