·noun Decoration; ornament; beauty.
II. Flourish ·noun A flourishing condition; prosperity; vigor.
III. Flourish ·noun A fanciful stroke of the pen or graver; a merely decorative figure.
IV. Flourish ·vi To make ornamental strokes with the pen; to write graceful, decorative figures.
V. Flourish ·noun The waving of a weapon or other thing; a brandishing; as, the flourish of a sword.
VI. Flourish ·vt To Develop; to make thrive; to Expand.
VII. Flourish ·vi To grow luxuriantly; to increase and enlarge, as a healthy growing plant; a thrive.
VIII. Flourish ·vi To execute an irregular or fanciful strain of music, by way of ornament or prelude.
IX. Flourish ·vi To Boast; to Vaunt; to Brag.
X. Flourish ·vi To use florid language; to indulge in rhetorical figures and lofty expressions; to be flowery.
XI. Flourish ·vt To move in bold or irregular figures; to swing about in circles or vibrations by way of show or triumph; to Brandish.
XII. Flourish ·noun A fantastic or decorative musical passage; a strain of triumph or bravado, not forming part of a regular musical composition; a cal; a fanfare.
XIII. Flourish ·vt To adorn with flowers orbeautiful figures, either natural or artificial; to ornament with anything showy; to Embellish.
XIV. Flourish ·vi To make bold and sweeping, fanciful, or wanton movements, by way of ornament, parade, bravado, ·etc.; to play with fantastic and irregular motion.
XV. Flourish ·vt To embellish with the flowers of diction; to adorn with rhetorical figures; to grace with ostentatious eloquence; to set off with a parade of words.
XVI. Flourish ·vi To be prosperous; to increase in wealth, honor, comfort, happiness, or whatever is desirable; to Thrive; to be prominent and influental; specifically, of authors, painters, ·etc., to be in a state of activity or production.
XVII. Flourish ·noun Something made or performed in a fanciful, wanton, or vaunting manner, by way of ostentation, to excite admiration, ·etc.; ostentatious embellishment; ambitious copiousness or amplification; parade of words and figures; show; as, a flourish of rhetoric or of wit.