FLORID

a.

4 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
a.

Covered with flowers; abounding in flowers; flowery. [R.] Fruit from a pleasant and florid tree. Jer. Taylor.

2.
a.

Bright in color; flushed with red; of a lively reddish color; as, a florid countenance.

3.
a.

Embellished with flowers of rhetoric; enriched to excess with figures; excessively ornate; as, a florid style; florid eloquence.

4.
a.

Flowery; ornamental; running in rapid melodic figures, divisions, or passages, as in variations; full of fioriture or little ornamentations.