To be in a period of greatest influence.
To thrive or grow well.
To make bold and sweeping, fanciful, or wanton movements, by way of ornament, parade, bravado, etc.; to play with fantastic and irregular motion.
To make bold, sweeping movements with.
To prosper or fare well.
To adorn with beautiful figures or rhetoric; to ornament with anything showy; to embellish.
To use florid language; to indulge in rhetorical figures and lofty expressions.
To execute an irregular or fanciful strain of music, by way of ornament or prelude.
To make ornamental strokes with the pen; to write graceful, decorative figures.
To develop; to make thrive; to expand.
A ceremonious passage such as a fanfare.
An ornamentation.
A dramatic gesture such as the waving of a flag.
A decorative embellishment on a building.
To spend a long period of time (in an unpleasant place).
To expose, as flax, to a process of maceration, etc., for the purpose of separating the fiber; to ret.
To suffer decomposition due to biological action, especially by fungi or bacteria.
To decline in function or utility.
To (cause to) deteriorate in any way, as in morals; to corrupt.
To make putrid; to cause to be wholly or partially decomposed by natural processes.
Any of several diseases in which breakdown of tissue occurs.
The process of becoming rotten; putrefaction.
Verbal nonsense.
Decaying matter.