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The indistinct and magnified appearance of objects seen in particular states of the atmosphere. See Mirage.

The process of making blooms from the ore or from cast iron.

In a blooming manner.

A blooming condition.

Twilight (of morning or evening); the gloaming. When the faint glooming in the sky First lightened into day. Trench. The balmy glooming, crescent-lit. Tennyson.

Blooming in the night. Night-blooming cereus. (Bot.) See Note under Cereus.

In or into bloom; in a blooming state. Masson.

The act of assembling, or the state o In sweet assemblage every blooming grace. Fenton.

To bestow a bloom upon; to make blooming or radiant. [R.] Milton. While barred clouds bloom the soft-dying day. Keats.

A blooming period or stage of development; something lovely that gives rich promise. In the blossom of my youth. Massinger.

g blushes; rosy red; having a warm and delicate color like some roses and other flowers; blooming; ruddy; roseate. The dappled pink and blushing rose. Prior.

Any plant of the order Cactacæ, as the prickly pear and the night-blooming cereus. See Cereus. They usually have leafless stems and branches, often beset with clustered thorns, and are mostly natives of the warmer parts of America. Cactus wren (Zoöl.), an American wren of the genus Campylorhynchus, of several species.…

Like a red cherry in color; ruddy; blooming; as, a cherry lip; cherry cheeks.

Having that cloudiness or dimness of surface that is called "blooming."

nga and Alpinia officinarum). -- China rose. (Bot.) (a) A popular name for several free-blooming varieties of rose derived from the Rosa Indica, and perhaps other species. (b) A flowering hothouse plant (Hibiscus Rosa-Sinensis) of the Mallow family, common in the gardens of China and the east Indies. -- China shop, a…

To cover with, or as with, a cloak; hence, to hide or conceal. Now glooming sadly, so to cloak her matter. Spenser.

Any flattish flower cluster, whatever be the order of blooming, or a similar shaped cluster of fruit.

soms rising separately from the bulb or corm. C. vernus is one of the earliest of spring-blooming flowers; C. sativus produces the saffron, and blossoms in the autumn.

A spring-blooming plant (Fritillaria imperialis) of the Lily family, having at the top of the stalk a cluster of pendent bell- shaped flowers surmounted with a tuft of green leaves.

Flowering, or state of flowering; the blooming of flowers; blowth.