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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



... is it that, after all, we should so dread the shock of war? We all have to die, whether in our beds or in the battle-field. Who of you all, when roused by the clangour of Gabriel's trump, would not rather appear in all the bloom of youth, bearing upon your front the scar of the death-wound received in defence of your country's right, than with the wrinkled ...
— Blackwoods Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 366, April, 1846 • Various
... unable to make up his mind to which of her countless suitors he should entrust her. I was one among the many who felt a desire so natural, and, as her father knew who I was, and I was of the same town, of pure blood, in the bloom of life, and very rich in possessions, I had great hopes of success. There was another of the same place and qualifications who also sought her, and this made her father's choice hang in the balance, for he felt that on either of us his daughter would be well bestowed; so ...
— Don Quixote • Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
... upper lip—and the full, sensuous under lip mocking the upper and giving the lie to the child's eyes which are still wide with the wonder of men and things. And there's something of an adolescent's mystery in the eyes, too—a hint of languor where the bloom of the cheek touches the lower lid—and those smooth, cool, little hands, scarcely seen in the shadow—did you ever see more purity and innocence—more character and the lack of it—painted into a pair of hands since Van ...
— The Common Law • Robert W. Chambers
... blossom, in the eastern part of the garden of the Ning mansion, was in full bloom, Chia Chen's spouse, Mrs. Yu, made preparations for a collation, (purposing) to send invitations to dowager lady Chia, mesdames Hsing, and Wang, and the other members of the family, to come and admire the flowers; and when the day arrived the first thing she did was to take Chia Jung and his ...
— Hung Lou Meng, Book I • Cao Xueqin
... Younger men than he have been taken aback by that discovery. But James Ollerenshaw did not behave as a younger man would have behaved. He was more like some one who, having heard tell of the rose for sixty years, and having paid no attention to rumour, suddenly sees a rose in early bloom. At his age one knows how to treat a flower; one knows what ...
— Helen with the High Hand (2nd ed.) • Arnold Bennett


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