Part 4415

<hw>Flow"er-gen`tle</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <fld>(Bot.)</fld> <def>A species of amaranth (<spn>Amarantus melancholicus</spn>).</def>

<h1>Floweriness</h1> <Xpage=574>

<hw>Flow"er*i*ness</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>The state of being flowery.</def>

<h1>Flowering</h1> <Xpage=574>

<hw>Flow"er*ing</hw>, <tt>a.</tt> <fld>(Bot.)</fld> <def>Having conspicuous flowers; -- used as an epithet with many names of plants; <as>as, <ex>flowering</ex> ash; <ex>flowering</ex> dogwood; <ex>flowering</ex> almond, etc.</as></def>

<cs><col>Flowering fern</col>, <cd>a genus of showy ferns (<spn>Osmunda</spn>), with conspicuous bivalvular sporangia. They usually grow in wet places.</cd> -- <col>Flowering plants</col>, <cd>plants which have stamens and pistils, and produce true seeds; phenogamous plants; -- distinguished from <i>flowerless plants<i>.</cd> -- <col>Flowering rush</col>, <cd>a European rushlike plant (<spn>Butomus umbellatus</spn>), with an umbel of rosy blossoms.</cd></cs>

<h1>Flowering</h1> <Xpage=574>

<hw>Flow"er*ing</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>The act of blossoming, or the season when plants blossom; florification.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>The act of adorning with flowers.</def>

<h1>Flowerless</h1> <Xpage=574>

<hw>Flow"er*less</hw>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Having no flowers.</def>

<cs><col>Flowerless plants</col>, <cd>plants which have no true flowers, and produce no seeds; cryptigamous plants.</cd></cs>

<h1>Flowerlessness</h1> <Xpage=574>

<hw>Flow"er*less*ness</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>State of being without flowers.</def>

<h1>Flowerpot</h1> <Xpage=574>

<hw>Flow"er*pot`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>A vessel, commonly or earthenware, for earth in which plants are grown.</def>

<h1>Flowery</h1> <Xpage=574>

<hw>Flow"er*y</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Full of flowers; abounding with blossoms.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Highly embellished with figurative language; florid; <as>as, a <ex>flowery</ex> style</as>.</def>

<i>Milton.</i>

<cs><col>The flowery kingdom</col>, <cd>China.</cd></cs>

<h1>Flowery-kirtled</h1> <Xpage=574>

<hw>Flow"er*y-kir`tled</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Dressed with garlands of flowers.</def> <mark>[Poetic & Rare]</mark>

<i>Milton.</i>

<h1>Flowing</h1> <Xpage=574>

<hw>Flow"ing</hw>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>That flows or for flowing (in various sense of the verb); gliding along smoothly; copious.</def>

<cs><col>Flowing battery</col> <fld>(Elec.)</fld>, <cd>a battery which is kept constant by the flowing of the exciting liquid through the cell or cells.</cd> <i>Knight.</i> -- <col>Flowing furnace</col>, <cd>a furnace from which molten metal, can be drawn, as through a tap hole; a foundry cupola.</cd> -- <col>Flowing sheet</col> <fld>(Naut.)</fld>, <cd>a sheet when eased off, or loosened to the wind, as when the wind is abaft the beam.</cd></cs>

<i>Totten.</i>