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Flourish 1

Definition: To grow luxuriantly; to increase and enlarge, as a healthy growing plant; a thrive.

Flourish 2

Definition: To be prosperous; to increase in wealth, honor, comfort, happiness, or whatever is desirable; to thrive; to be prominent and influental; specifically, of authors, painters, etc., to be in a state of activity or production.

Flourish 3

Definition: To use florid language; to indulge in rhetorical figures and lofty expressions; to be flowery.

Flourish 4

Definition: To make bold and sweeping, fanciful, or wanton movements, by way of ornament, parade, bravado, etc.; to play with fantastic and irregular motion.

Flourish 5

Definition: To make ornamental strokes with the pen; to write graceful, decorative figures.

Flourish 6

Definition: To execute an irregular or fanciful strain of music, by way of ornament or prelude.

Flourish 7

Definition: To boast; to vaunt; to brag.

Flourish 8

Definition: To adorn with flowers orbeautiful figures, either natural or artificial; to ornament with anything showy; to embellish.

Flourish 9

Definition: To embellish with the flowers of diction; to adorn with rhetorical figures; to grace with ostentatious eloquence; to set off with a parade of words.

Flourish 10

Definition: To move in bold or irregular figures; to swing about in circles or vibrations by way of show or triumph; to brandish.

Flourish 11

Definition: To develop; to make thrive; to expand.

Flourish 12

Definition: A flourishing condition; prosperity; vigor.

Flourish 13

Definition: Decoration; ornament; beauty.

Flourish 14

Definition: Something made or performed in a fanciful, wanton, or vaunting manner, by way of ostentation, to excite admiration, etc.; ostentatious embellishment; ambitious copiousness or amplification; parade of words and figures; show; as, a flourish of rhetoric or of wit.

Flourish 15

Definition: A fanciful stroke of the pen or graver; a merely decorative figure.

Flourish 16

Definition: A fantastic or decorative musical passage; a strain of triumph or bravado, not forming part of a regular musical composition; a cal; a fanfare.

Flourish 17

Definition: The waving of a weapon or other thing; a brandishing; as, the flourish of a sword.

flourish 18

Definition: (music) a short lively tune played on brass instruments; "he entered to a flourish of trumpets"; "her arrival was greeted with a rousing fanfare"

flourish 19

Definition: the act of waving

flourish 20

Definition: a display of ornamental speech or language

flourish 21

Definition: a showy gesture; "she entered with a great flourish"

flourish 22

Definition: an ornamental embellishment in writing

flourish 23

Definition: grow stronger; "The economy was booming"

flourish 24

Definition: move or swing back and forth; "She waved her gun"

flourish 25

Definition: gain in wealth

 

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