Word Meanings - OVERFLOURISH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. To make excessive display or flourish of. Collier. 2. To embellish with outward ornaments or flourishes; to varnish over. Shak.

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• COLLIERY
  1. The place where coal is dug; a coal mine, and the buildings, etc., belonging to it. 2. The coal trade. Johnson.
• DISPLAYER
  One who, or that which, displays.
• EMBELLISH
  To make beautiful or elegant by ornaments; to decorate; to adorn; as, to embellish a book with pictures, a garden with shrubs and flowers, a narrative with striking anecdotes, or style with metaphors. Syn. -- To adorn; beautify; deck;
• FLOURISHINGLY
  , adv. In a flourishing manner; ostentatiously.
• VARNISHER
  1. One who varnishes; one whose occupation is to varnish. 2. One who disguises or palliates; one who gives a fair external appearance. Pope.
• OUTWARD; OUTWARDS
  From the interior part; in a direction from the interior toward the exterior; out; to the outside; beyond; off; away; as, a ship bound outward. The wrong side may be turned outward. Shak. Light falling on them is not reflected outwards.
• FLOURISHER
  One who flourishes.
• DISPLAY
  To extend the front of , bringing it into line. Farrow. 3. To spread before the view; to show; to exhibit to the sight, or to the mind; to make manifest. His statement . . . displays very clearly the actual condition of the army. Burke. 4. To make
• EXCESSIVE
  Characterized by, or exhibiting, excess; overmuch. Excessive grief the enemy to the living. Shak. Syn. -- Undue; exorbitant; extreme; overmuch; enormous; immoderate; monstrous; intemperate; unreasonable. See Enormous --Ex*cess*ive*ly,
• FLOURISH
  fleurir, fr. L. florere to bloom, fr. flos, floris, flower. See 1. To grow luxuriantly; to increase and enlarge, as a healthy growing plant; a thrive. A tree thrives and flourishes in a kindly . . . soil. Bp. Horne. 2. To be prosperous; to increase
• OUTWARDS
  See ADV
• VARNISHING
  The act of laying on varnish; also, materials for varnish.
• EMBELLISHMENT
  1. The act of adorning, or the state of being adorned; adornment. In the selection of their ground, as well as in the embellishment of it. Prescott. 2. That which adds beauty or elegance; ornament; decoration; as, pictorial embellishments. The
• OUTWARD
  1. Formmg the superficial part; external; exterior; -- opposed to inward; as, an outward garment or layer. Though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day. Cor. iv. 16. 2. Of or pertaining to the outer surface or to what
• VARNISH
  vernir to varnish, fr. LL. vitrinire to glaze, from LL. 1. A viscid liquid, consisting of a solution of resinous matter in an oil or a volatile liquid, laid on work with a brush, or otherwise. When applied the varnish soon dries, either
• DISPLAYED
  With wings expanded; -- said of a bird of pray, esp. an eagle. (more info) 1. Unfolded; expanded; exhibited conspicuously or ostentatiously.
• EMBELLISHER
  One who embellishes.
• COLLIER
  1. One engaged in the business of digging mineral coal or making charcoal, or in transporting or dealing in coal. 2. A vessel employed in the coal trade.
• DISEMBELLISH
  To deprive of embellishment; to disadorn. Carlyle.
• REFLOURISH
  To flourish again.
• OVERFLOURISH
  1. To make excessive display or flourish of. Collier. 2. To embellish with outward ornaments or flourishes; to varnish over. Shak.