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Entry 12 senses · 4 variants Webster, 1913

Bloom

/blo͞om/ · IPA /bluːm/
01 n. A blossom; the flower of a plant; an expanded bud; flowers, collectively.
  1. 1.
    A blossom; the flower of a plant; an expanded bud; flowers, collectively.
    “The rich blooms of the tropics.” — Prescott.
  2. 2.
    The opening of flowers in general; the state of blossoming or of having the flowers open; as, the cherry trees are in bloom.
  3. 3.
    A state or time of beauty, freshness, and vigor; an opening to higher perfection, analogous to that of buds into blossoms; as, the bloom of youth.
    “Every successive mother has transmitted a fainter bloom, a more delicate and briefer beauty.” — Hawthorne.
  4. 4.
    The delicate, powdery coating upon certain growing or newly-gathered fruits or leaves, as on grapes, plums, etc. Hence: Anything giving an appearance of attractive freshness; a flush; a glow.
    “A new, fresh, brilliant world, with all the bloom upon it.” — Thackeray.
  5. 5.
    The clouded appearance which varnish sometimes takes upon the surface of a picture.
  6. 6.
    A yellowish deposit or powdery coating which appears on well-tanned leather.
  7. 7.
    A popular term for a bright-hued variety of some minerals; as, the rose-red cobalt bloom.(Min.)
02 v. i. To produce or yield blossoms; to blossom; to flower or be in flower.
imp. & p. p. Bloomed; p. pr. & vb. n. Blooming
  1. 1.
    To produce or yield blossoms; to blossom; to flower or be in flower.
    “A flower which once In Paradise, fast by the tree of life, Began to bloom.” — Milton.
  2. 2.
    To be in a state of healthful, growing youth and vigor; to show beauty and freshness, as of flowers; to give promise, as by or with flowers.
    “A better country blooms to view, Beneath a brighter sky.” — Logan.
03 v. t. To cause to blossom; to make flourish.
  1. 1.
    To cause to blossom; to make flourish.[R.]
    “Charitable affection bloomed them.” — Hooker.
  2. 2.
    To bestow a bloom upon; to make blooming or radiant.[R.]
    “While barred clouds bloom the soft-dying day.” — Keats.
04 n. A mass of wrought iron from the Catalan forge or from the puddling furnace, deprived of its dross, and shaped usually in the form of an obl…
  1. 1.
    A mass of wrought iron from the Catalan forge or from the puddling furnace, deprived of its dross, and shaped usually in the form of an oblong block by shingling.(Metal.)