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Highly embellished with figurative language; florid; as, a flowery style. Milton. The flowery kingdom, China.

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

Full of bloom; flowery; flourishing with the vigor of youth; as, a bloomy spray. But all the bloomy flush of life is fled. Goldsmith.

Full of blossoms; flowery.

een food. Spenser. Sheep, goats, and oxen, and the nobler steed, On browse, and corn, and flowery meadows feed. Dryden.

To caress with the hand; to stroke. Come sit thee down upon this flowery bed, While I thy amiable cheeks do coy. Shak.

Ambounding in figures of speech; flowery; florid; as, a highly figurative description.

Covered with flowers; abounding in flowers; flowery. [R.] Fruit from a pleasant and florid tree. Jer. Taylor.

Flowery; blossoming. [Obs.] Blount.

To use florid language; to indulge in rhetorical figures and lofty expressions; to be flowery. They dilate . . . and flourish long on little incidents. J. Watts.

Florida; -- a nickname, alluding to sense of L. floridus, from florida flowery. See Florid.

The state of being flowery.

e and manner as natural and unaffected, easy and polite, and full of those graces which a flowery imagination diffuses over writing. Blair.

ading the men of Herefordshire to fight Against the irregular and wild Glendower. Shak. A flowery meadow through which a clear stream murmured in many irregular meanders. Jones.

Watered; watery; moist; dewy. [Obs.] The flowery lap Of some irriguous valley spreads her store. Milton.

eep, and let down your nets for a draught. Luke v. 4. He [Spenser] launches out into very flowery paths. Prior.

e dust. A stone was brought, and laid upon the mouth of the den. Dan. vi. 17. Soft on the flowery herb I found me laid. Milton.

To fill or impregnate with a perfume; to scent. And Carmel's flowery top perfumes the skies. Pope.

out with some design, or for a special use; usually, a portion of flat, even ground. This flowery plat, the sweet recess of Eve. Milton. I keep smooth plat of fruitful ground. Tennyson.

he dawn; the spring. Chaucer. In the very prime of the world. Hooker. Hope waits upon the flowery prime. Waller.