flowerest

Verb

flower (third-person singular simple present flowers, present participle flowering, simple past and past participle flowered)

1. (intransitive) To put forth blooms.
   • This plant flowers in June.

   Synonyms:

   bloom, blossom

2. (transitive) To decorate with pictures of flowers.
3. (intransitive) To reach a state of full development or achievement.
   • when flowr'd my youthful spring1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], “December. Ægloga Duodecima.”, in The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Iohn Wolfe for Iohn Harrison the yonger, […], →OCLC

   Synonyms:

   flourish

4. (archaic, intransitive) To froth; to ferment gently, as new beer.
   • That beer did flower a little.1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted...
5. (intransitive) To come off as flowers by sublimation.
   • observations which have flowered off[1644], [John Milton], Of Education. To Master Samuel Hartlib, [London]: […] [Thomas Underhill and/or Thomas Johnson], →OCLC

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