bloomn.1
/bluːm/, U.S. /blum/ 1. † b. figurative. to bear the bloom: to flourish. Obsolete.
a. The blossom or flower of a plant. (Not extended like ‘flower’ to a whole ‘flowering plant’, and expressing a more delicate notion than ‘blossom’, which is more commonly florescence bearing promise of fruit, while ‘bloom’ is florescence thought of as the culminating beauty of the plant. Cherry trees are said to be in blossom, hyacinths in bloom.)
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c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 10773 Nazaræþ bitacneþþ uss Onn ennglissh brodd. & blome.
c1400 (?c1380) Cleanness l. 1467 Alle þe blomes of þe boȝes were blyknande perles.
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 40 Blome flowre, flos.
1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) v. 10 The treis begouth to ma Burgeonys and brycht blwmys [1489 Adv. blemys] alsua.
1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection iii. sig. i iii The frutes of the Holygoost..be more lyke..To be called Blomes and floures, than frutes.
1570 Sempill Ballates (1872) 77 Thou grene Roismary hyde thy heid, Schaw not thy fair blew blumis.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost v. 25 How the Bee Sits on the Bloom extracting liquid sweet. View more context for this quotation
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics i, in tr. Virgil Wks. 57 If od'rous Blooms the bearing Branches load. View more context for this quotation
1770 O. Goldsmith Deserted Village 4 Parting summer's ling'ring blooms.
1882 Bazaar, Exchange & Mart 15 Feb. 173 To preserve cut blooms for some length of time.
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the world > action or operation > prosperity > prosper or flourish [verb (intransitive)]
theec888
i-thee971
bloomc1175
flower?c1225
soundfula1300
fructifya1325
timea1325
to bear the bloom1330
flourisha1340
prosperc1350
thrive?a1366
blossom1377
cheve1377
burgeona1382
likec1400
upthrivec1440
avail1523
fadge1573
to bear a great, high or lofty sail1587
blow1610
to be (also stand) in state1638
fatten1638
sagaciate1832
to be going strong1855
1330 R. Mannyng Chron. 322 Þei were born in Rome alle þe Columpneis, Þat kynde bare þe blome, riche men & curteis.
c. collective. Blossom, flowers, florescence.
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the world > plants > part of plant > reproductive part(s) > flower or part containing reproductive organs > [noun] > blossom or flower(s)
blossom971
bledec975
blooma1400
flourishinga1400
floweringa1400
flourisha1500
blowing1578
blooming1622
pip1753
floriage1782
florescence1793
blow1797
flowerage1831
bloom-flinder1840
gosling1847–78
snow1859
fleuret1868
bloomagea1876
blossomry1901
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 9328 Þe wand bar lef and frut and blom.
a1400 Sir Isumb. 176 Playe the with the blome.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost iii. 43 Not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of Ev'n or Morn, Or sight of vernal bloom . View more context for this quotation
1820 P. B. Shelley Prometheus Unbound i. i. 56 The yellow bees in the ivy-bloom.
1878 R. W. Gilder Poet & Master 14 Not yet the orchard lifted Its cloudy bloom to the sky.
d. in bloom: in flower, flowering, blossoming.
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the world > plants > part of plant > reproductive part(s) > flower or part containing reproductive organs > flower or flowering plant > [adjective] > having flowers or blossom > in bloom
blownc1000
full-blown1576
flowering1592
in beauty1629
flowered1633
in bloom1645
new-blown1656
blooming1664
blowing1667
in flower1697
in (their) flowers1697
abloom1729
blow1744
aflower1869
1645 J. Fary Gods Severity 8 Blossomes, that be all in a bloome, as wee say.
1735 W. Oldys Life Raleigh in Wks. (1829) I. 383 Like some flowers which are sweeter in their fall than others in their bloom.
1820 W. Irving Sketch Bk. I. 182 It was the month of May, when every thing was in bloom.
1864 Ld. Tennyson Islet 32 For the bud ever breaks into bloom on the tree.
e. transferred of persons. Cf. ‘flower’.
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the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > excellence > [noun] > excellent person
gemc1275
blooma1300
excellence1447
mirrorc1450
man of mena1470
treasure?1545
paragon1548
shining light1563
Apollo's swan?1592
man of wax1597
rara avis1607
Titan1611
choice spirita1616
excellency1725
inestimable1728
inimitable1751
cock of the walk1781
surpasser1805
shiner1810
swell1816
trump1819
tip-topper1822
star1829
beauty1832
soarer1895
trumph1895
pansy1899
Renaissance man1906
exemplum virtutis1914
museum piece1920
superman1925
flyer1930
pistol1935
all-star1949
a1300 Havelok 63 He was Engelondes blome.
a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1994) I. xi. 103 Welcom, Mary, blyssed blome!
c1750 W. Shenstone Elegies iv. 32 The frailty of so fair a bloom.
1871 R. Ellis tr. Catullus Poems lxiv. 4 A chosen array, rare bloom of valorous Argos.
2. figurative. State of greatest beauty or loveliness, most flourishing condition or season, prime, perfection.
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the mind > attention and judgement > beauty > [noun] > stage of greatest beauty
blossoma1250
bloomc1400
flower1609
blow1753
beautyhood1832
c1400 (?c1380) Pearl l. 577 More haf I of ioye & blysse here-inne, Of ladyschyp gret & lyuez blom.
1600 W. Shakespeare Much Ado about Nothing v. i. 76 Dispight..His Maie of youth, and bloome of lustihood.
1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 165. ¶3 While her Beauty was yet in all its Height and Bloom.
1742 A. Pope New Dunciad 505 Poor W** nipt in Folly's broadest bloom, Who praises now?
1850 J. Leitch tr. K. O. Müller Ancient Art (new ed.) §159 The real bloom of this art was past when the Romans conquered the East.
1875 P. G. Hamerton Intellect. Life (1876) vi. i. 195 The bloom of perfect manhood.
3.
a. The crimson tint of the cheek; flush, glow. Also figurative.
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the world > life > the body > skin > complexion > redness > [noun] > with blushing
blushing1581
flushing1590
suffusion1700
flush1706
bloom1752
mantling1753
rouge1759
hectic1768
vermilion1787
smoking1862
mantle1897
1752 H. Fielding Amelia I. iii. x. 253 Miss Bath had not only recovered her Health, but her Bloom.
1793 T. Beddoes Observ. Nature & Cure Calculus 117 That vermilion bloom, which..is the harbinger or attendant of an incurable disease.
1847 Ld. Tennyson Princess iv. 84 Over brow And cheek and bosom brake the wrathful bloom.
1879 F. W. Farrar Life & Work St. Paul I. vi. xxiv. 461 Those simple, faithful natures which combine the glow of courage with the bloom of modesty.
b. gen. Suffusion of glowing colour over a surface.
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the world > matter > colour > [noun] > glow or burst of colour
flush1630
bloom1832
outflame1889
the world > matter > light > light emitted in particular manner > [noun] > glow
flush1630
bloom1832
1832 L. Hunt Sir Ralph Esher I. xi. 262 The colours of the awnings over head struck down a bloom over the whole scene.
4.
a. The delicate powdery deposit on fruits like the grape, plum, etc., when fresh-gathered, and on certain plant-leaves. (So called perhaps from 3.)Cf. Song. Meet me in the evening When the bloom is on the rye.
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the world > plants > part of plant > plant substances > [noun] > bloom or powdery deposit
bloom1640
gosling1706
1640 T. Carew Poems 170 In bloome of peach, in rosy bud, There wave the streamers of her blood.
1678 [see bloom-coloured adj. at Compounds 1b]. 1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. Bloom, the blue colour upon plums and grapes newly gathered.
1855 ‘E. S. Delamer’ Kitchen Garden 155 Tying grapes in muslin bags assists their ripening..; the pity is, that the taking them off spoils the bloom.
1882 S. H. Vines tr. J. von Sachs Text-bk. Bot. (ed. 2) 99 Very frequently the wax extends..over the cuticle..constituting the so-called ‘bloom’ on fruits and some leaves.
1882 P. Fitzgerald Recreat. Lit. Man II. xi. 4 And before the end of those weary hours the bloom is off the rye—he is stale and stupid.
b. figurative. Freshness, delicate charm or beauty. to take the bloom off (a thing): to deprive it of its first freshness or beauty.
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the mind > attention and judgement > beauty > pleasing appearance > [noun] > delicateness or daintiness
softheadc1350
delicateness?1529
daintethness1548
gingerliness1583
daintinessa1586
delicacya1586
subtilty1660
the blue of the plum1707
bloom1777
daintification1780
daintihood1780
fairyhood1832
1777 S. Johnson in Boswell Life Johnson (1831) I. 159 It [the Plan of Dictionary] would have come out with more bloom if it had not been seen before by any body.
1859 A. Helps Friends in Council New Ser. I. 182 The bloom of his regard would be rubbed off.
c. In various spec. senses, e.g. The yellowish deposit on well-tanned leather, the powdery appearance on newly-struck coins, the fluorescence exhibited by petroleum, etc. Also, the cloudy appearance on a varnished surface. Cf. blooming n.1 2.
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society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > leather > [noun] > yellowish coating from tanning
bloom1842
pitching1857
the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > coating or covering with a layer > [noun] > a coat or covering layer > powdery or cloudy
bloom1842
1842 Penny Cycl. XXIV. 38/2 This bloom [on leather] consists of the finer portion of the gelatin from the interior of the skin.
1882 Pharmaceut. Jrnl. 343 Petroleum having a bloom or fluorescence.
1882 Ogilvie's Imperial Dict. (new ed.) I Bloom,..a superficial coating or appearance on certain things, as the delicate powdery coating upon certain fruits when newly gathered.
1884 Times 1 Mar. The ‘bloom’ on the wall..around the actual spot of the explosion, was sufficient to show that the material used was not gunpowder.
1885 Eng. Mech. 20 Feb. 532 Until the bud is covered with ‘bloom’, or the so-called ellagic acid.
1885 Cornhill Mag. Mar. 281 That coating of indigo and gypsum which imparts [to tea leaves] the bloom so highly prized in the European market.
1953 Gloss. Paint Terms (B.S.I.) 6 Bloom, a thin film which sometimes forms on glossy paint or varnish films, thereby dimming their lustre or veiling their depth of colour.
d. (See quots.)
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the world > animals > animal body > general parts > covering or skin > [noun] > coat > hair, wool, or fur > glossiness
sleekness1751
bloom1908
1908 Animal Managem. (War Office) 134 In no case should..the work [be] so hard, that the colt's ‘bloom’, i.e., his round and glossy sleekness, disappears.
1952 C. L. B. Hubbard Pembrokeshire Corgi Handbk. 108 Bloom, glossiness or good sheen of coat.
e. = water-bloom n.
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the world > the earth > water > body of water > [noun] > discoloration by organisms
redwater1839
breaking (of the meres)1884
water blossom1884
water-bloom1887
algal bloom1938
bloom1939
red tide1942
1939 B. M. Griffiths in Proc. Linn. Soc. CLI. 13 In 1838 Drummond gave a description of the greenish bloom on Glaslough, Co. Monaghan.
1948 Hydrobiologia I. 1 About 65 species [of algae] are known to cause ‘blooms’ in lakes.
1957 Penguin New Biol. XXIII. 87 At least two early chroniclers have recorded that the occurrence of a red bloom..forewarned of the untimely death of William Rufus.
1969 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 16 May 32/1 Dr. Parsons said that although the deep Pacific was uneconomical, similar plankton blooms had been found at the juncture of the Fraser River and the sea.
5. A fine variety of raisin.
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the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > fruit or a fruit > dried fruit > [noun] > raisin > types of raisin
raisins of Corauntz?c1390
small raisinc1485
currantc1503
Malaga raisin1629
muscatel1803
bloom1841
sultana raisin1841
Smyrna1845
Valencia1867
1841 Penny Cycl. XIX. 274/1 Different kinds of raisins are distinguished..as muscatels, blooms, sultanas.
1875 R. Hunt & F. W. Rudler Ure's Dict. Arts (ed. 7) III. 692 These are muscatels or blooms.
6. Used attributively to denote a certain appearance or state assumed by sugar in the process of clarifying and refining.
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > sugar manufacture > [noun] > stage in manufacture
bloom1825
feather1827
string point1909
1825 S. Adams & S. Adams Compl. Servant 113 It may then be boiled to any degree you please, as smooth, bloom, feathered, crackled, and caramel.
7. The perfume exhaled from wine, bouquet.
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the world > physical sensation > smell and odour > fragrance > [noun] > fragrant smell > wine bouquet
bouquet1846
bloom1888
1888 Encycl. Brit. XXIV. 602/2 The smell common to all wines (which remains in an empty wine cask after the bloom proper has gone).
Compounds
C1. General attributive.
a.
bloom-colour n.
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the world > matter > colour > named colours > red or redness > [noun] > shades of red > rose red
rosea1350
rose coloura1382
rosetc1450
rose-reda1475
rosinessa1586
blush1589
bloom-colour1797
rose madder1835
1797 R. Beilby & T. Bewick Hist. Brit. Birds I. 60 The breast, belly, and sides [are] of a fine pale rose or bloom colour.
bloom-flinder n.
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the world > plants > part of plant > reproductive part(s) > flower or part containing reproductive organs > [noun] > blossom or flower(s)
blossom971
bledec975
blooma1400
flourishinga1400
floweringa1400
flourisha1500
blowing1578
blooming1622
pip1753
floriage1782
florescence1793
blow1797
flowerage1831
bloom-flinder1840
gosling1847–78
snow1859
fleuret1868
bloomagea1876
blossomry1901
1840 R. Browning Sordello iii. 345 Her ivory limbs are smothered by a fall, Bloom-flinders, and fruit-sparkles, and leaf-dust.
bloom-hour n.
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the world > life > source or principle of life > age > prime > [noun]
flowering agec1400
pridec1475
blooming-time1495
flower?1507
season?1507
day1546
flourishing years?1555
golden years1559
vigour1563
consistent age1574
prime1574
May moon1576
acme1579
Maya1586
flourish1597
May month1600
consistencea1613
May morna1616
constant age1620
high daya1625
blouth1643
flourishing age1737
heyday1751
floruit1843
bloom-hour1850
blossom-time1860
1850 T. T. Lynch Memorials Theophilus Trinal xi. 208 The maiden..in the bloom-hour of her life.
bloom-stem n.
b.
bloom-bright adj.
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the world > matter > colour > state or mode of having colour > [adjective] > brightly coloured
brightOE
gay?c1225
paintedc1400
sheenc1400
staringc1400
freshc1405
wanton1583
splendid1634
amelled1651
vivid1686
strong1711
bloom-bright1832
flamboyant1851
technicolored1927
dazzle1931
Technicolora1940
fauve1967
1832 Ld. Tennyson Hesperides in Poems (new ed.) 106 From a slope That ran bloombright into the Atlantic blue,..Came voices.
bloom-coloured adj.
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the world > matter > colour > named colours > red or redness > [adjective] > rose-red or -pink
rosenOE
rose-redOE
rosy1381
rosat?c1425
roseate1449
rosy-redc1450
rosetc1500
rosing?a1505
rose-coloured1526
rose-like1530
roseal1531
rosal1566
rosy-fingered1590
red rose1591
rosy-coloured1597
carnation1598
damask1598
rosied1600
damasked1609
rosical1631
roseac1638
rose1667
bloom-coloured1678
rose pink1778
rosaceous1783
rose-tinted1804
rose1806
rose1832
rose du Barry1856
blush-rose1888
1678 London Gaz. No. 1273/4 The Hood lined with bloom-coloured Silk.
C2.
bloom-fell n. a plant; according to Britten and Holland, Lotus corniculatus.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > leguminous plants > [noun] > lotus or bird's-foot trefoil
lote1548
ground honeysuckle1592
bird's-foot trefoil1650
bird's-foot lote1714
lotus1731
winged pea1739
bird's-foot trefoil1760
bloom-fell1799
fingers and thumbs1815
bird's-foot lotus1832
devil's claw1833
five-finger1845
lady's slipper1852
1799–1824 Prize Ess. in Highl. Soc. Trans. 3 524 (Jam.) Ling, deer-hair, and bloom-fell, are also scarce.
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bloomn.2
/bluːm/, U.S. /blum/ 1. ‘A mass of iron after having undergone the first hammering.’ Weale. spec. An ingot of iron or steel, or a pile of puddled bars, which has been brought, by passing through one set of ‘rolls’, into the form of a thick bar, and left for further rolling when required for use.
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society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > metal > iron > [noun] > mass having undergone first hammering
blooma1000
a1000 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 141/36 Massa, dað, uel bloma.
1584–5 Act 27 Eliz. xix Any maner of Yron Milles, Furnaces, Hammer, Finarie, Forge or Blomarie.
1674 J. Ray Iron Work 127 At the Finery by the working of the hammer they bring it into Blooms and Anconies.
1686 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Staffs. iv. 163 They work it into a bloom, which is a square barr in the middle, and two square knobs at the ends, one much less then the other, the smaller being call'd the Ancony end, and the greater the Mocket head.
1719 Glossographia Anglicana Nova (ed. 2) Bloom, in the Iron-Works, is a four-square Mass of Iron about two Foot long.
1845 New Statist. Acct. Scotl. VI. 79 An extensive forge for the manufacture of blooms was erected.
1862 Times 12 Aug. Lord Dudley presents numerous specimens of fractured blooms and bars.
1881 Academy 6 Nov. 350 It may possibly be a ‘bloom’ from a prehistoric foundry.
1882 Engineer 24 Feb. 133/1 The blooms from the hammer are then heated and rolled down to make puddled bar.
2. Applied to the ‘ball’ or mass of iron from the puddling furnace which is to be hammered or shingled into a bloom.
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society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > metal > iron > [noun] > mass of puddled iron
loop1674
ball1825
bloom1865
1865 Derby Merc. 15 Feb. An immense bloom of iron, looking like a huge egg, and weighing 5 cwt., showing the state of the iron as delivered by the furnace.
1875 R. Hunt & F. W. Rudler Ure's Dict. Arts (ed. 7) II. 1013 The bloom or rough ball from the puddle-furnace.
1879 Cassell's Techn. Educator (new ed.) I. 410 After pig-iron has been puddled, the ‘blooms’, as the masses of iron are termed, while still white-hot from the puddling furnace, are dragged to the helve.
Compounds
C1. bloom-shearing, bloom-tongs.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > metalworking equipment > [adjective] > type of cutting machine
bloom-shearing1884
1884 Imp. & Mach. Rev. 1 Dec. 6719/2 A large bloom~shearing machine, capable of cutting steel blooms.
C2.
bloom-hook n. an implement used for handling heated blooms.
bloom-smithy n. a forge or smithy where blooms are made.
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society > occupation and work > workplace > places for working with specific materials > place for working with metal > [noun] > forge or smithy > types of
smithy mill1523
bloom-smithy1601
tilt-forge1836
tilt house1864
goldsmithy1878
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. 459 This kind of charcole serueth only the Bloom-smithies and furnaces.
1831 J. Holland Treat. Manuf. Metal I. 18 At the suppression of the bloomaries (or iron smithies) the tenants charged themselves with the payment of this rent, which is called Bloom Smithy, or Wood rent.
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† bloomn.3
Obsolete. rare.
A hot wind.
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the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > wind > [noun] > hot or warm wind
hot gleam1601
bloom1697
snow-eater1886
1697 W. Dampier New Voy. around World xix. 529 I. have always observ'd the Sea Winds to be warmer than Land Winds; unless it be when a bloom, as we call it, or hot blast blow from thence.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
bloomv.1
/bluːm/, U.S. /blum/ 1. intransitive. To bear flowers; to be in flower, come into flower; to blossom.
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the world > plants > part of plant > reproductive part(s) > flower or part containing reproductive organs > flower or flowering plant > be a flowering plant [verb (intransitive)] > flower or blossom
blossomc890
blowc1000
flower13..
blooma1325
breakc1325
lancec1330
flourishc1386
to break up?a1500
knopa1584
effloresce1775
outbreak1870
a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 2061 Orest it blomede and siðen bar, Ðe beries ripe.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 10743 Þat his wand suld blome.
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 40 Blomyn, floreo, floescor.
1495 Trevisa's Bartholomeus De Proprietatibus Rerum (de Worde) xvii. lxiv. sig. Pvii/1 In Thessalia feildes þt beenes growe in ben eerid whan the beenys bloume [a1398 BL Add. bloweþ].
?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. xiiii Hasell..begynneth to blome before christmas.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost iii. 355 A Flour which once In Paradise, fast by the Tree of Life Began to bloom . View more context for this quotation
1727 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Oeconomique (Dublin ed.) at Coriander This Plant..blooms in July and August.
1820 P. B. Shelley Prometheus Unbound i. i. 27 Blue thistles bloomed in cities.
2. figurative and transferred. To come into full beauty; to be in fresh beauty and vigour; to flourish.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > prosperity > prosper or flourish [verb (intransitive)]
theec888
i-thee971
bloomc1175
flower?c1225
soundfula1300
fructifya1325
timea1325
to bear the bloom1330
flourisha1340
prosperc1350
thrive?a1366
blossom1377
cheve1377
burgeona1382
likec1400
upthrivec1440
avail1523
fadge1573
to bear a great, high or lofty sail1587
blow1610
to be (also stand) in state1638
fatten1638
sagaciate1832
to be going strong1855
the mind > attention and judgement > beauty > be or become beautiful [verb (intransitive)]
fairOE
bloomc1175
beautify1559
c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 3636 Godess þeowwess blomenn aȝȝ Inn alle gode þæwess.
c1425 Festivals Ch. 245 in Leg. Rood 218 A childe þat choisly chees In maydenes blode to blome.
a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid (1960) xi. xii. 103 Forgane the speris so bustuus blomyt he.
a1592 R. Greene Frier Bacon (1594) sig. F3v For fancie bloomes not at the first assault.
1737 R. Glover Leonidas i. 224 With all my honours blooming round my head.
1759 S. Johnson Prince of Abissinia II. xxviii*. 23 The daughter begins to bloom before the mother can be content to fade.
1834 T. Carlyle Sartor Resartus ii. v. 53/1 Life bloomed up with happiness and hope.
1871 B. Jowett tr. Plato Dialogues IV. 555 Your beauty is fading away, just as your true self is beginning to bloom.
1878 H. H. Gibbs Game of Ombre (ed. 2) 2 Quadrille also has faded away, or blooms only in some old-fashioned nooks of England.
3. transitive. To bring into bloom; to cause to flourish. Chiefly figurative. Obsolete or archaic.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > prosperity > cause to prosper or flourish [verb (transitive)] > specifically a thing or enterprise
bloom1592
enhappy1626
1592 R. Greene Philomela sig. C3v Each faire thing that sommer bloomed.
1597 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie v. iii. 9 Rites and customes..in their first originall beginnings, when the strength of vertuous, deuout or charitable affection bloomed them.
1611 Bible (King James) Num. xvii. 8 The rod of Aaron..brought forth buds, and bloomed blossomes. View more context for this quotation
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost iv. 219 The Tree of Life..blooming Ambrosial Fruit Of vegetable Gold. View more context for this quotation
1745 E. Young Consolation 20 Tenderness Divine..That planted Eden, and high-bloom'd for Man, A fairer Eden.
4. intransitive. To glow with warm colour.
ΘΚΠ
the world > matter > light > light emitted in particular manner > [verb (intransitive)] > glow or shine as if on fire
glowc1000
flamec1400
gloomc1420
burn1423
flare1633
kindle1797
flush1809
bloom1860
1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. §11. 75 Heaps of snow..as the day advanced, bloomed with a rosy light.
1884 Christm. Graphic 4/2 A little salon, in which a circular iron stove bloomed red-hot all round.
5. transitive. To give a bloom to; to colour with a soft warm tint or glow.
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the world > matter > colour > colouring > colour [verb (transitive)] > colour softly or warmly
bloom1820
1820 J. Keats To Autumn iii, in Lamia & Other Poems 138 While barred clouds bloom the soft-dying day.
1844 M. F. Tupper Proverb. Philos. (1852) 179 The eye is bright with trust, the cheek bloomed over with affection.
6. technical. To cloud a varnished surface. (See quot. 1859, and cf. blooming n.1 2.)
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > condition or preservation of paintings > [verb (transitive)] > bloom
bloom1859
chill1859
1859 T. J. Gullick & J. Timbs Painting 214 Whatever varnish may be employed..a current of cold or damp air, which ‘chills’ or ‘blooms’ them [paintings] should be avoided.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
bloomv.2
To hammer or squeeze the ball or lump of iron from the puddle-furnace into a ‘bloom’; to shingle.
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society > occupation and work > industry > working with specific materials > working with metal > work with metal [verb (transitive)] > other metalworking processes
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rockc1400
leadc1440
braze1552
run1650
stratify1669
shingle1674
snarl1688
plate1706
bar1712
strake1778
shear1837
pile1839
matt1854
reek1869
bloom1875
siliconize1880
tumble1883
rustproof1886
detin1909
blank1914
anodize1931
roll1972
1875 R. Hunt & F. W. Rudler Ure's Dict. Arts (ed. 7) II. 1012 To prepare the puddle balls for the rolling mills, they have to undergo the process of ‘shingling’ or ‘blooming;’ this is effected either by the hammer or by the squeezer: the latter has almost entirely superseded the former.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online March 2018).
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