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ode of painting,in which the paint, being mixed with turpentine, leaves the work without gloss. Gwilt.

A bursting into flower; a blossoming. Martyn.

Expanding into flowers; blossoming.

Bloom; blossom. [Obs.] J. Scott.

Flowery; blossoming. [Obs.] Blount.

In the popular sense, the bloom or blossom of a plant; the showy portion, usually of a different color, shape, and texture from the foliage.

A plant which flowers or blossoms. Many hybrids are profuse and persistent flowerers. Darwin.

-- Flowering rush, a European rushlike plant (Butomus umbellatus), with an umbel of rosy blossoms.

Full of flowers; abounding with blossoms.

See Floss silk, under Floss.

an American bird (Phainopepla nitens), allied to the chatterers and shrikes. The male is glossy blue-black; the female brownish gray. -- Fly wheel (Mach.), a heavy wheel attached to machinery to equalize the movement (opposing any sudden acceleration by its inertia and any retardation by its momentum), and to accumula…

efix to verbs, having usually the force of a negative or privative. It often implies also loss, detriment, or destruction, and sometimes it is intensive, meaning utterly, quite thoroughly, as in forbathe.

See Forlend. [Obs.] As if that life to losse they had forelent. Spenser.

The act of forfeiting; the loss of some right, privilege, estate, honor, office, or effects, by an offense, crime, breach of condition, or other act. Under pain of foreiture of the said goods. Hakluyt.

Loss of remembrance or recollection; a ceasing to remember; oblivion. A sweet forgetfulness of human care. Pope.

A shrub of the Olive family, with yellow blossoms.

To become chilled with cold, or as with cold; to suffer loss of animation or life by lack of heat; as, the blood freezes in the veins. To freeze up (Fig.), to become formal and cold in demeanor. [Colloq.]

ms dissolved in alcohol, either shellac alone, or shellac with other gums added. (b) The glossy surface produced by the application of the above. -- French purple, a dyestuff obtained from lichens and used for coloring woolen and silken fabrics, without the aid of mordants. Ure. -- French red rouge. -- French rice,…

Like a perfect blossom. "Full-bloomed lips." Crashaw.

Fully expanded, as a blossom; as, a full-bloun rose. Denham.