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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.

an forge. (Metal.) See under Catalan. -- Forge cinder, the dross or slag form a forge or bloomary. -- Forge rolls, Forge train, the train of rolls by which a bloom is converted into puddle bars. -- Forge wagon (Mil.), a wagon fitted up for transporting a blackmith's forge and tools. -- Portable forge, a light and c…

Finely; splendidly; showily; as, ladies gayly dressed; a flower gayly blooming. Pope.

Covered with a fine bloom or fine white powder easily rubbed off, as that on a blue plum, or on a cabbage leaf. Gray.

A kind of tongs used in a bloomery. [U.S.]

yacinthine flowers. Cowper. The hyacinthine boy, for whom Morn well might break and April bloom. Emerson.

ound. Milton. The sloping of the moonlit sward Was damask work, and deep inlay Of braided blooms. Tennyson.

e per cent of carbon. It is made either directly from the ore, as in the Catalan forge or bloomery, or by purifying (puddling) cast iron in a reverberatory furnace or refinery. It is tough, malleable, and ductile. When formed into bars, it is called bar iron.

. A bloomery fire. See Bloomery.

. The green mantle of the standing pool. Shak. Now Nature hangs her mantle green On every blooming tree. Burns.

The early part or springtime of life. His May of youth, and bloom of lustihood. Shak.

Edge, Flint, etc. -- Mill bar (Iron Works), a rough bar rolled or drawn directly from a bloom or puddle bar for conversion into merchant iron in the mill. -- Mill cinder, slag from a puddling furnace. -- Mill head, the head of water employed to turn the wheel of a mill. -- Mill pick, a pick for dressing millstones…

aving or emitting an odor or scent, esp. a sweet odor; fragrant; sweet-smelling. "Odorous bloom." Keble. Such fragrant flowers do give most odorous smell. Spenser. -- O"dor*ous*ly, adv. -- O"dor*ous*ness, n.

Of the delicate purplish pink color likened to that of peach blooms; -- applied esp. to a Chinese porcelain, small specimens of which bring great prices in the Western countries.

Sprinkled or covered with powder; dusty; as, the powdery bloom on plums.

Early; blooming; being in the first stage. [Poetic] His starry helm, unbuckled, showed him prime In manhood where youth ended. Milton.

Frosty; covered with fine scales, hairs, dust, bloom, or the like, so as to give the appearance of frost.

& Steel Manuf.), a train of rolls in a rolling mill, for making rails for railroads from blooms or billets.

Rising again; -- applied to a class of roses which bloom more than once in a season; the hybrid perpetual roses, of which the Jacqueminot is a well-known example.

resembling a rose in color or fragrance; esp., tinged with rose color; blooming; as, roseate beauty; her roseate lips. Roseate tern (Zoöl.), an American and European tern (Sterna Dougalli) whose breast is roseate in the breeding season.