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▪ I. blooming, vbl. n.1|ˈbluːmɪŋ|
[f. bloom v.1]
1. a. The action or state of coming into or being in bloom. Also fig.
1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xvii. xcvi. (1495) 663 All codware louyth water tofore the blossom and drinesse after the blowmynge. c1630Drummond of Hawthornden Wks. (1711) 12 A virgin in the blooming of her prime. 1684Scanderbeg Rediv. i. 2 To know the first Bloomings of a Tree which has yielded such happy Fruit. 1709Pope Ess. Crit. 501 Like some fair flow'r..That gayly blooms, but ev'n in blooming dies.
†b. concr. A blossom, inflorescence. Obs.
1622Wither Mistr. Philar. (1633) 590 Low Sallowes on whose bloomings Bees doe fall. 1657W. Coles Adam in Eden lx, Small heads..which are the bloomings or Flowers.
c. attrib., as in blooming-time.
1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xvii. clxxvii. (1495) 718 Vynes haue a specyall euyll whan they ben spronge wyth euyll dewe or reyne in blowmyng tyme. 1883C. Monkhouse in Academy No. 577. 358/3 A true, if not a complete, view of English song-writing in its blooming-time.
2. Painting. A cloudy appearance on a varnished surface, esp. of a picture. Cf. bloom v. 6.
1859Gullick & Timbs Paint. 204 The vehicles of the oil painter subject him to innumerable perplexities by their bad drying, change of colour, cracking, and blooming. 1879Cassell's Techn. Educ. IV. 222/2 Spotting, blooming, pinholing.
3. Television. (See quots.)
1940D. G. Fink Princ. Telev. Engin. iii. 72 The brightness contrast is limited by halation and saturation of the luminescent screen and by the defocusing effect (‘blooming’) associated with the electron gun when large signals are impressed upon it. 1945N. M. Cooke Electronics Dict. 37/2 Blooming, a fuzzy effect in a reproduced television picture.
4. Photogr. Coating with a ‘bloom’; the process of coating a photographic lens with a metallic fluoride in order to reduce surface reflection.
1943A. Cox Optics 267 In the cases of some older lenses which had acquired a bloom on their surfaces with the passing of time the amount of reflection was cut down at each of these surfaces. But the blooming could not be produced regularly as a practical proposition. 1944Photogr. Jrnl. LXXXIII. 225/2 It is on account of this colour that the process is often called ‘blooming’. 1957T. L. J. Bentley Man. Miniat. Camera (ed. 5) v. 59 The ‘blooming’ treatment gives to the surface of new lenses an even purple coating by deposition of magnesium fluoride, to a minute and finely adjusted thickness.
▪ II. ˈblooming, vbl. n.2
[f. bloom v.2 + -ing1.]
The reducing of cast- or pig-iron into ‘blooms.’ Also attrib., as blooming mill; blooming machine, blooming rolls (see quots.).
1812Sir H. Davy Chem. Philos. 392 In the process for reducing cast iron into malleable iron called blooming. 1869Spons' Dict. Engin. i. 367 The blooming machine, invented by Jeremiah Brown..consists of three large eccentric rolls..placed horizontally in the strong holsters.., the centres of the rolls being arranged in a triangular position, and the bottom roll..being nearly central between the two top rolls. 1871Trans. Amer. Inst. Mining Eng. I. 203 This first reduction or blooming is usually done in this country in a 30-inch 3-high rolling mill. 1884Imp. & Mach. Rev. 1 Dec. 6719/2 Adjacent to this..the roughing mill, together with a..blooming mill. 1888Lockwood's Dict. Terms Mech. Engin., Blooming Rolls, see Puddling Rolls... Puddling Rolls, or Forge Train, the first set of rolls through which a shingled bloom is passed.
▪ III. ˈblooming, ppl. a.
[f. bloom v.1 + -ing2.]
1. That blooms, or is in flower.
1664Evelyn Kal. Hort. (1729) 219 Old unthriving, or over-hastily blooming Trees. 1728Thomson Spring 10 When Nature all Is blooming and benevolent. 1866Geo. Eliot F. Holt 3 Pots full of blooming balsams or geraniums.
2. fig.
a. In the bloom of health and beauty, in the prime of youth; flourishing.
1675Dryden Aurengz. i. i. 77 That Character..Of Valour, which in blooming youth he gain'd. 1774T. Blacklock Graham ii. xiv, His blooming bride. 1855Macaulay Hist. Eng. IV. 329 Again England was given over; and again the strange patient persisted in becoming stronger and more blooming.
b. Of things: Flourishing, full of fair promise.
c1375? Barbour St. Adrian 232 His hart wes ful of bleumand blis. a1674Clarendon Hist. Reb. III. xi. 155 Their blooming hopes. 1684Scanderbeg Rediv. i. 6 [He] gave in early Youth all the blooming Presages of a growing Hero.
c. Bright, shining.
1513Douglas æneis xi. xv. 12 In broone sangwane weill dycht Abuf hys onkouth armour blomand brycht. 1830Cunningham Brit. Paint. I. 285 Who purchased blooming works, which were destined to fade in their possession. 1847Tennyson Princ. vi. 129 Wan was her cheek With hollow watch, her blooming mantle torn.
†d. Of style: Florid, flowery. Obs.
1685F. Spence House Medici 360 Machiavell..whose stile is so blooming and correct that it's tax'd with being too finical and tawdry.
†3. That produces blooms or blossoms. rare.
1587Turberv. Trag. T. (1837) 284 By meanes of heate mixt with the blooming raine.
¶4. slang. Full-blown; often euphemistic for bloody (sense 10) or the like. Cf. blessed (5).
1882Macm. Mag. XLVI. 441 Oh, you blooming idiot! 1885Scotsman 20 Aug. 5/4 You asks me no bloomin' imper'int questions, an' I tells yer no bloomin' lies.
5. blooming sally [i.e. sallow], a Willow-herb (Epilobium angustifolium, rarely E. hirsutum).
6. blooming (initial) letter: a floriated initial letter of the alphabet; = bloomer1 2.
1713Jas. Watson in Hist. Printing Pref. 9 Curiously cut Head-Pieces, Finis's, Blooming-Letters [etc.]. 1785W. Herbert Typogr. Antiq. 527 The chronicle of each reign begins with a blooming letter. 1902Sayle Init. Lett. Early Eng. Printed Bks. in Trans. Bibliogr. Soc. VII. 18 The bloomers or blooming initials as Herbert calls them.
Hence ˈbloomingly adv., ˈbloomingness.
1831Blackw. Mag. XXIX. 809 As bloomingly beautiful as at the time of her marriage. 1859G. Meredith Song of Courtesy in Once a Wk. 9 July I. 30 ‘Shall I live bloomingly?’ Said she. 1847Craig, Bloomingness. |