† blowthn.
Obsolete exc. dialect.
Blowing or blossoming; blossom, bloom.
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flourishing1303
blowingc1380
blossomingc1440
blooming1495
flourish1594
blowth1602
efflorescence1626
flowering1629
blow1744
florification1796
inflorescence1801
flowerage1841
florescence1853
floriferousness1882
1602 R. Carew Surv. Cornwall sig. ¶ivv The tree, Which forth this blooth hath brought.
1614 W. Raleigh Hist. World i. i. ix. §3. 182 The seedes and effects..were as yet but potentiall, and in the blowth and budde.
1769 Monthly Rev. 42 185 The thorn's first blowth.
1859 E. Capern Ballads & Songs (new ed.) 129 The furze-blooth on the hill.
1862 W. Barnes Rhymes Dorset Dial. II. 95 A zummer hedge in blooth.
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