noun
A blossom; the flower of a plant; an expanded bud.
the rich blooms and enamelled vegetation of the tropics
Flowers.
The opening of flowers in general; the state of blossoming or of having the flowers open.
The cherry trees are in bloom.
sight of vernal bloom
A state or time of beauty, freshness, and vigor; an opening to higher perfection, analogous to that of buds into blossoms.
the bloom of youth
every successive mother had transmitted to her child a fainter bloom, a more delicate and briefer beauty.
Rosy colour; the flush or glow on a person's cheek.
verb
To cause to blossom; to make flourish.
Charitable affection bloomed them.
To bestow a bloom upon; to make blooming or radiant.
The Tree of Life[…]blooming Ambrosial Fruit Of vegetable Gold.
Where are the songs of Spring? Ay, where are they? / Think not of them, thou hast thy music too,— / While barred clouds bloom the soft-dying day, / And touch the stubble-plains with rosy hue; [...]
Of a plant, to produce blooms; to open its blooms.
A flower which once / In Paradise, fast by the tree of life, / Began to bloom.
To spread; to slowly expand like a field of flowers that blossom in fits and spurts.
Shadows bloomed over the yard.
Anger bloomed up from his throat.
Of a person, business, etc, to flourish; to be in a state of healthful, growing youth and vigour; to show beauty and freshness.
Nurse Cramer had a cute nose and a radiant, blooming complexion dotted with fetching sprays of adorable freckles that Yossarian detested.
The attacking three have also been allowed to bloom. Liberated from deep defensive duties Eden Hazard has become more expressive, more obviously, flashily complete.
noun
The spongy mass of metal formed in a furnace by the smelting process.
These metallic bodies gradually increasing in volume finally conglomerate into a larger mass, the bloom, which is extracted from the furnace with tongs.