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A flowering; florification. [R.] Craig.

To come into the finest or fairest condition. Their lusty and flowering age. Robynson (More's Utopia). When flowered my youthful spring. Spenser.

The ripened ovary of a flowering plant, with its contents and whatever parts are consolidated with it.

A genus of flowering plants having elegant drooping flowers, with four sepals, four petals, eight stamens, and a single pistil. They are natives of Mexico and South America. Double-flowered varieties are now common in cultivation.

A head or dense cluster of flowers, formed by condensation of a cyme, as in the flowering dogwood.

A rope or tackle for hoisting or lowering yards, sails, flags, etc. [Written also halliard, haulyard.]

e stem does not become woody and permanent, but dies, at least down to the ground, after flowering.

One of several species of flowering plants, much admired for their beauty, and some for their fragrance.

A flowering; the putting forth and unfolding of blossoms.

f energy, the law of variation of the pressure and density of a fluid, the one during the lowering, and the other during the raising, of its temperature, when the quantity of heat given out by the fluid during any given stage of the one process is equal to the quantity received during the corresponding stage of the oth…

An assemblage or combination of tackles, for hoisting or lowering the lower yards of a ship. Jeer capstan (Naut.), an extra capstan usually placed between the foremast and mainmast.

To grow lighter; to become less dark or lowering; to brighten; to clear, as the sky.

), a screw for adjusting the distance between the stones in a grinding mill by raising or lowering the bridgetree.

A name given to handsome flowering plants of several genera, having some resemblance in color or form to a true lily, as Pancratium, Crinum, Amaryllis, Nerine, etc.

An inclosure in a canal with gates at each end, used in raising or lowering boats as they pass from one level to another; -- called also lift lock.

To frown; to look sullen. But sullen discontent sat lowering on her face. Dryden.

Cloudy; gloomy; lowering; as, a lowery sky; lowery weather.

talline substance of a sweet taste obtained from a so-called manna, the dried sap of the flowering ash (Fraxinus ornus); -- called also mannitol, and hydroxy hexane. Cf. Dulcite. HO.CH2.(CHOH)4.CH2.OH = D-mannitol; manna sugar; cordycepic acid; Diosmol; Mannicol; Mannidex; Osmiktrol; Osmosal. -- used in pharmacy as ex…

Dark; obscure; gloomy. "The murkiest den." Shak. A murky deep lowering o'er our heads. Addison.

Having a quality imparted by means of the nose; and specifically, made by lowering the soft palate, in some cases with closure of the oral passage, the voice thus issuing (wholly or partially) through the nose, as in the consonants m, n, ng (see Guide to Pronunciation, §§ 20, 208); characterized by resonance in the nas…