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n. [ OE. blome, fr. Icel. bl&unr_;m, bl&unr_;mi; akin to Sw. blom, Goth. bl&unr_;ma, OS. bl&unr_;mo, D. bloem, OHG. bluomo, bluoma, G. blume; fr. the same root as AS. bl&unr_;wan to blow, blossom. See Blow to bloom, and cf. Blossom. ] 1. A blossom; the flower of a plant; an expanded bud; flowers, collectively. [ 1913 Webster ]

The rich blooms of the tropics. Prescott. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

Every successive mother has transmitted a fainter bloom, a more delicate and briefer beauty. Hawthorne. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

A new, fresh, brilliant world, with all the bloom upon it. Thackeray. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. The clouded appearance which varnish sometimes takes upon the surface of a picture. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. A yellowish deposit or powdery coating which appears on well-tanned leather. Knight. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. (Min.) A popular term for a bright-hued variety of some minerals; as, the rose-red cobalt bloom. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Bloomed p. pr. & vb. n. Blooming. ] 1. To produce or yield blossoms; to blossom; to flower or be in flower. [ 1913 Webster ]

A flower which once
In Paradise, fast by the tree of life,
Began to bloom. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

A better country blooms to view, Beneath a brighter sky. Logan. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. 1. To cause to blossom; to make flourish. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Charitable affection bloomed them. Hooker. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To bestow a bloom upon; to make blooming or radiant. [ R. ] Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

While barred clouds bloom the soft-dying day. Keats. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ AS. bl&unr_;ma a mass or lump, īsenes bl&unr_;ma a lump or wedge of iron. ] (Metal.) (a) 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. (b) A large bar of steel formed directly from an ingot by hammering or rolling, being a preliminary shape for further working. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Bloomery. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Mrs. Bloomer, an American, who sought to introduce this style of dress. ] 1. A costume for women, consisting of a short dress, with loose trousers gathered round ankles, and (commonly) a broad-brimmed hat. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A woman who wears a Bloomer costume. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Manuf.) A furnace and forge in which wrought iron in the form of blooms is made directly from the ore, or (more rarely) from cast iron. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Metal.) The process of making blooms from the ore or from cast iron. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Opening in blossoms; flowering. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Thriving in health, beauty, and vigor; indicating the freshness and beauties of youth or health. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a blooming manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A blooming condition. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Without bloom or flowers. Shelley. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Full of bloom; flowery; flourishing with the vigor of youth; as, a bloomy spray. [ 1913 Webster ]

But all the bloomy flush of life is fled. Goldsmith. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Covered with bloom, as fruit. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

The bloom or blossom of the wild rose or dog-rose. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a perennial purple-flowered wild mallow of West North America (Sidalcea malviflora) that is also cultivated.
Syn. -- wild hollyhock, Sidalcea malviflora. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. t. [ A variant of clam to clog. ] To close with glutinous matter. [ Obs. ] Mortimer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A kind of loom used in weaving figured patterns; -- called also drawboy. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A species of damask made on the drawloom. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To emblossom. Savage. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To make gloomy. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Like a perfect blossom. “Full-bloomed lips.” Crashaw. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ AS. glōm twilight, from the root of E. glow. See Glow, and cf. Glum, Gloam. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. Partial or total darkness; thick shade; obscurity; as, the gloom of a forest, or of midnight. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A shady, gloomy, or dark place or grove. [ 1913 Webster ]

Before a gloom of stubborn-shafted oaks. Tennyson . [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Cloudiness or heaviness of mind; melancholy; aspect of sorrow; low spirits; dullness. [ 1913 Webster ]

A sullen gloom and furious disorder prevailed by fits. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. In gunpowder manufacture, the drying oven. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Darkness; dimness; obscurity; heaviness; dullness; depression; melancholy; dejection; sadness. See Darkness. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Gloomed p. pr. & vb. n. Glooming. ] 1. To shine or appear obscurely or imperfectly; to glimmer. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To become dark or dim; to be or appear dismal, gloomy, or sad; to come to the evening twilight. [ 1913 Webster ]

The black gibbet glooms beside the way. Goldsmith. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ This weary day ] . . . at last I see it gloom. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. 1. To render gloomy or dark; to obscure; to darken. [ 1913 Webster ]

A bow window . . . gloomed with limes. Walpole. [ 1913 Webster ]

A black yew gloomed the stagnant air. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To fill with gloom; to make sad, dismal, or sullen. [ 1913 Webster ]

Such a mood as that which lately gloomed
Your fancy. Tennison. [ 1913 Webster ]

What sorrows gloomed that parting day. Goldsmith. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. partially or totally dark. [ archaic ]
Syn. -- glooming, gloomy. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adv. In a gloomy manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. State of being gloomy. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. Gloaming. ] Twilight (of morning or evening); the gloaming. [ 1913 Webster ]

When the faint glooming in the sky
First lightened into day. Trench. [ 1913 Webster ]

The balmy glooming, crescent-lit. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Gloom. [ R. ] Walpole. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Compar. Gloomier superl. Gloomiest. ] 1. Imperfectly illuminated; dismal through obscurity or darkness; dusky; dim; clouded; as, the cavern was gloomy. “Though hid in gloomiest shade.” Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Affected with, or expressing, gloom; melancholy; dejected; as, a gloomy temper or countenance.

Syn. -- Dark; dim; dusky; dismal; cloudy; moody; sullen; morose; melancholy; sad; downcast; depressed; dejected; disheartened. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. Woven on a handloom; -- of fabrics, rugs, or carpets.
Syn. -- handwoven. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

n. [ Heir + loom, in its earlier sense of implement, tool. See Loom the frame. ] Any furniture, movable, or personal chattel, which by law or special custom descends to the heir along with the inheritance; any piece of personal property that has been in a family for several generations. [ 1913 Webster ]

Woe to him whose daring hand profanes
The honored heirlooms of his ancestors. Moir. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) See Loon, the bird. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state of looming; esp., an unnatural and indistinct appearance of elevation or enlargement of anything, as of land or of a ship, seen by one at sea. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. lome, AS. gelōma utensil, implement. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. A frame or machine of wood or other material, in which a weaver forms cloth out of thread; a machine for interweaving yarn or threads into a fabric, as in knitting or lace making. [ 1913 Webster ]

Hector, when he sees Andromache overwhelmed with terror, sends her for consolation to the loom and the distaff. Rambler. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Naut.) That part of an oar which is near the grip or handle and inboard from the rowlock. Totten. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Loomed p. pr. & vb. n. Looming. ] [ OE. lumen to shine, Icel. ljoma; akin to AS. leíma light, and E. light; or cf. OF. lumer to shine, L. luminare to illumine, lumen light; akin to E. light. √122. See Light not dark. ] 1. To appear above the surface either of sea or land, or to appear enlarged, or distorted and indistinct, as a distant object, a ship at sea, or a mountain, esp. from atmospheric influences; as, the ship looms large; the land looms high. [ 1913 Webster ]

Awful she looms, the terror of the main. H. J. Pye. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To rise and to be eminent; to be elevated or ennobled, in a moral sense. [ 1913 Webster ]

On no occasion does he [ Paul ] loom so high, and shine so gloriously, as in the context. J. M. Mason. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To become imminent; to impend. [ PJC ]

n. A gentle gale of wind. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The indistinct and magnified appearance of objects seen in particular states of the atmosphere. See Mirage. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a hand loom in which the warp is carried horizontally; for weaving tapestry. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. (Bot.) The hawthorn. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Blooming in the night. [ 1913 Webster ]

Night-blooming cereus. (Bot.) See Note under Cereus. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To spread gloom over; to make gloomy; to overshadow. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Overgloomed by memories of sorrow. De Quincey. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To bloom again. Crabbe. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Slumber. [ Prov. Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Sluggish; slow. [ Prov. Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]