A flower which once In Paradise, fast by the tree of
life, Began to bloom. --Milton.
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.
The rich blooms of the tropics. --Prescott.
2. The opening of flowers in general; the state of blossoming
or of having the flowers open; as, the cherry trees are in
bloom. ``Sight of vernal bloom.'' --Milton.
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. 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. The clouded appearance which varnish sometimes takes upon
the surface of a picture.
6. A yellowish deposit or powdery coating which appears on
well-tanned leather. --Knight.
7. (Min.) A popular term for a bright-hued variety of some
minerals; as, the rose-red cobalt bloom.
Charitable affection bloomed them. --Hooker.
2. To bestow a bloom upon; to make blooming or radiant. [R.]
--Milton.
While barred clouds bloom the soft-dying day.
--Keats.