Flow″er (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p.Flowered (?); p. pr. & vb. n.Flowering.] [From the noun. Cf. Flourish.] 1. To blossom; to bloom; to expand the petals, as a plant; to produce flowers; as, this plant flowers in June.
2. To come into the finest or fairest condition.
Their lusty and flowering age. Robynson (More's Utopia).
When flowered my youthful spring. Spenser.
3. To froth; to ferment gently, as new beer.
That beer did flower a little. Bacon.
4. To come off as flowers by sublimation.
Observations which have flowered off. Milton.