BLOOMING
blinking, bally(a), bloody, blooming, crashing, flaming, fucking
(adjective) informal intensifiers; “what a bally (or blinking) nuisance”; “a bloody fool”; “a crashing bore”; “you flaming idiot”
blooming, bloom
(noun) the organic process of bearing flowers; “you will stop all bloom if you let the flowers go to seed”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Verb
blooming
present participle of bloom
Adjective
blooming (comparative more blooming, superlative most blooming)
Opening in blossoms; flowering.
Thriving in health, beauty, and vigor, vigour; indicating the freshness and beauties of youth or health.
(British, dated) bloody; bleeding; extremely.
Synonyms
• (opening in blossoms): blossoming, flowering, in bloom, in blossom, in flower
• (thriving in health, beauty and vigor/vigour): blossoming, flourishing, thriving
• (euphemism for "bloody"): bally (British), blasted, blinking, bloomin'
Adverb
blooming (comparative more blooming, superlative most blooming)
(British, euphemistic, often followed by well) Bloody; bleeding; extremely.
Noun
blooming (countable and uncountable, plural bloomings)
The act by which something blooms.
(metallurgy) The process of making blooms from the ore or from cast iron.
(photography) A phenomenon where excessive light causes bright patches in a picture.
Source: Wiktionary
Bloom"ing, n. (Metal.)
Definition: The process of making blooms from the ore or from cast iron.
Bloom"ing, a.
1. Opening in blossoms; flowering.
2. Thriving in health, beauty, and vigor; indicating the freshness
and beauties of youth or health.
BLOOM
Bloom, n. Etym: [OE. blome, fr. Icel. bl, bl; akin to Sw. blom, Goth.
bl, OS. bl, D. bloem, OHG. bluomo, bluoma, G. blume; fr. the same
root as AS. bl to blow, blossom. See Blow to bloom, and cf. Blossom.]
1. A blossom; the flower of a plant; an expanded bud; flowers,
collectively.
The rich blooms of the tropics. Prescott.
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." Milton.
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. Hawthorne.
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. Thackeray.
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. Knight.
7. (Min.)
Definition: A popular term for a bright-hued variety of some minerals; as,
the rose-red cobalt bloom.
Bloom, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Bloomed; p. pr. & vb. n. 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. Milton.
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. Logan.
Bloom, v. t.
1. To cause to blossom; to make flourish. [R.]
Charitable affection bloomed them. Hooker.
2. To bestow a bloom upon; to make blooming or radiant. [R.] Milton.
While barred clouds bloom the soft-dying day. Keats.
Bloom, n. Etym: [AS. bl a mass or lump, isenes bl a lump or wedge of
iron.] (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.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition