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

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.

en 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.

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

ding 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.

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

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.

ut 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.