To thrive, prosper, or live in luxury, especially at the expense of others; fare sumptuously.
To furnish with battens.
To fasten or secure a hatch etc using battens.
To thrive by feeding; grow fat; feed oneself gluttonously.
To fertilize or enrich, as land.
To improve by feeding; fatten; make fat or cause to thrive due to plenteous feeding.
To gratify a morbid appetite or craving; gloat.
To feed (on); to revel (in).
To become better; improve in condition, especially by feeding.
A thin strip of wood used in construction to hold members of a structure together or to provide a fixing point.
A long strip of wood, metal, fibreglass etc., used for various purposes aboard ship, especially one inserted in a pocket sewn on the sail in order to keep the sail flat.
The movable bar of a loom, which strikes home or closes the threads of a woof.
In stagecraft, a long pipe, usually metal, affixed to the ceiling or fly system in a theater.
Of a person, business, etc, to flourish; to be in a state of healthful, growing youth and vigour; to show beauty and freshness.
To cause to blossom; to make flourish.
To bring out the flavor of a spice by cooking it in oil.
To bestow a bloom upon; to make blooming or radiant.
Of a plant, to produce blooms; to open its blooms.
A state or time of beauty, freshness, and vigor; an opening to higher perfection, analogous to that of buds into blossoms.
A yellowish deposit or powdery coating which appears on well-tanned leather.
Rosy colour; the flush or glow on a person's cheek.
Anything giving an appearance of attractive freshness.
The opening of flowers in general; the state of blossoming or of having the flowers open.
A bright-hued variety of some minerals.
The delicate, powdery coating upon certain growing or newly-gathered fruits or leaves, as on grapes, plums, etc.
A blossom; the flower of a plant; an expanded bud.
Flowers.
A white area of cocoa butter that forms on the surface of chocolate when warmed and cooled.
An undesirable halo effect that may occur when a very bright region is displayed next to a very dark region of the screen.
The increase in bullet spread over time as a gun's trigger is kept held.
The spongy mass of metal formed in a furnace by the smelting process.
The clouded appearance which varnish sometimes takes upon the surface of a picture.