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To flower; to blossom; to bloom. How blows the citron grove. Milton.

Opened; in blossom or having blossomed, as a flower. Shak.

a grasslike plant (Sisyrinchium anceps), with small flowers of a delicate blue color.

the genus Campanula, especially the Campanula rotundifolia, which bears blue bell-shaped flowers; the harebell.

rea cyanus) which grows in grain fields. It receives its name from its blue bottle-shaped flowers.

A name given to several different species of plants having blue flowers, as the Houstonia coerulea, the Centaurea cyanus or bluebottle, and the Vaccinium angustifolium.

To have a warm and delicate color, as some roses and other flowers. Full many a flower is born to blush unseen. T. Gray.

Showing blushes; rosy red; having a warm and delicate color like some roses and other flowers; blooming; ruddy; roseate. The dappled pink and blushing rose. Prior.

A narrow flower bed. Border land, land on the frontiers of two adjoining countries; debatable land; -- often used figuratively; as, the border land of science. -- The Border, The Borders, specifically, the frontier districts of Scotland and England which lie adjacent. -- Over the border, across the boundary line or f…

Less properly, a very high and rapid tidal flow, when not so abrupt, such as occurs at the Bay of Fundy and in the British Channel.

A form of cymose inflorescence with all the flowers on one side of the rachis, usually causing it to curl; -- called also a uniparous helicoid cyme.

A genus of plants of the order Nyctoginaceæ, from tropical South America, having the flowers surrounded by large bracts.

A nosegay; a bunch of flowers.

A leaf, usually smaller than the true leaves of a plant, from the axil of which a flower stalk arises.

A bract on the stalk of a single flower, which is itself on a main stalk that support several flowers. Gray.

To adorn with needlework representing branches, flowers, or twigs. The train whereof loose far behind her strayed, Branched with gold and pearl, most richly wrought. Spenser.

uch in appearance and qualities: such as the common cabbage (B. oleracea), broccoli, cauliflowers, etc.; the wild turnip (B. campestris); the common turnip (B. rapa); the rape of coleseed (B. napus), etc.

Fragrance; exhalation; odor; perfume. Tennison. The breath of flowers. Bacon.

To exhale; to emit, as breath; as, the flowers breathe odors or perfumes.

Milton. To brim over (literally or figuratively), to be so full that some of the contents flows over the brim; as, cup brimming over with wine; a man brimming over with fun.