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

A small flower; a floret. Shak.

Abounding with flowers. Craig.

The state of being flowery.

Having conspicuous flowers; -- used as an epithet with many names of plants; as, flowering ash; flowering dogwood; flowering almond, etc. Flowering fern, a genus of showy ferns (Osmunda), with conspicuous bivalvular sporangia. They usually grow in wet places. -- Flowering plants, plants which have stamens and pistils,…

Having no flowers. Flowerless plants, plants which have no true flowers, and produce no seeds; cryptigamous plants.

State of being without flowers.

A vessel, commonly or earthenware, for earth in which plants are grown.

Full of flowers; abounding with blossoms.

Dressed with garlands of flowers. [Poetic & Rare] Milton.

1. One who follows; a pursuer; an attendant; a disciple; a dependent associate; a retainer.

One who foreknows.

One who predicts.

A tool. See 2d Frow. Tusser.

Working smoothly, or without splitting; -- said of timber.

The common English milkwort (Polygala vulgaris), so called from blossoming in gang week. Dr. Prior.

roundish conical shape, purplish red color, and having a large core. [Written also gilliflower.] Clove gillflower, the clove pink. -- Marsh gillyflower, the ragged robin (Lychnis Flos-cuculi). -- Queen's, or Winter, gillyflower, damewort. -- Sea gillyflower, the thrift (Armeria vulgaris). -- Wall gillyflower, the w…

uropæus), found in the mountainous parts of Europe, and producing handsome globe-shaped flowers.

to look intently; to stare angrily or with a scowl. Thackeray.

One who grows or produces; as, a grower of corn; also, that which grows or increases; as, a vine may be a rank or a slow grower.