Adjective

(en adjective)

Blooming; covered in flowers.

(figuratively) Having something growing or grown.

* Gregory Hartswick, [Untitled], in , volume 27, number 3, January 1900, reprinted in, 1900, ''St. Nicholas volume 27, page 274 [http://books.google.com/books?id=QWUwAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA274&dq=abloom]:

For Santa Claus comes / With reindeer and sleigh / To fill up the stockings on glad Christmas Day. / And there in the library / Stands a great tree / With gifts all abloom , most lovely to see!

* 1902 , , Under the Trees , page62 [http://books.google.com/books?id=sNY8AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA62&dq=abloom]:

Who does not feel the passage of divine dreams over his troubled life when the infinite meadows of heaven are suddenly abloom with light?

* 1998 , , chapter 15:

He was abloom with heat and anxiety. The sweat underneath his arms had turned into an oily slick.

Thriving in health, beauty, and vigor; exhibiting youth-like beauty.

* 1987 , Merrill J. Mattes, The Great Platte River Road , page 70:

The Hollywood concept of clean-shaven, square-jawed young men and fragrant young ladies with cheeks abloom does not seem to square with the facts.

* 1997 , , Jade , chapter 1:

When they returned, Jade's cheeks were abloom , her eyes alight with anticipation.

Adjective

(en adjective)

(archaic, poetic) flowering, in bloom

* {{quote-book, year=1904, author=S.L. Bensusan, title=Morocco, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=I daresay there were many among them, tied by their daily toil to the town, who thought with longing of the pleasant road before us, through fertile lands where all the orchards were aflower and the peasants were gathering the ripe barley, though April had yet some days to revel in. }}

* {{quote-book, year=1917, author=Algernon Charles Swinburne, title=A Channel Passage and Other Poems, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=The stars and the sun give thanks for the glory bestowed and beholden, For the gladness they give and rejoice in, the night and the dawn and the day: But nought they behold when the world is aflower and the season is golden Makes answer as meet and as sweet as the flower that itself is May. THE PASSING OF THE HAWTHORN The coming of the hawthorn brings on earth Heaven: all the spring speaks out in one sweet word, And heaven grows gladder, knowing that earth has heard. }}

* {{quote-book, year=1922, author=John Paris, title=Kimono, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=It beat down upon Tokyo its fetid exhalations, the smell of cooking, of sewage and of humanity, and the queer sickly scent of a powerful evergreen tree aflower throughout the city, which resembled the reek of that Nagasaki brothel, and recalled the dancing of the Chonkina . }}