flourish

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• intransitive verb To grow well or luxuriantly; thrive.
• intransitive verb To do or fare well; prosper.
• intransitive verb To be in a period of highest productivity, excellence, or influence.
• intransitive verb To make bold, sweeping movements.
• intransitive verb To wield, wave, or exhibit dramatically.
• noun A dramatic or stylish movement, as of waving or brandishing.
• noun An embellishment or ornamentation.
• noun An ostentatious act or gesture.
• noun Music A showy or ceremonious passage, such as a fanfare.

from The Century Dictionary.

• To bloom; blossom; flower.
• To thrive under natural forces or conditions; be in a state of natural vigor or development; grow or be developed vigorously.
• To thrive under social or spiritual forces or relations; be vigorous in action or development; be successful or prosperous.
• To be in a state of active existence or actual exercise; exist in activity or practice.
• To make flourishes; use flowery or fanciful embellishments: as, to flourish in writing or speech.
• To move or be moved in fantastic, irregular figures; play with fantastic or wavering motion.
• In music:
• To boast; vaunt; brag.
• To shake; be brandished.
• To cause to bloom; cause to thrive or grow luxuriantly.
• To cause to prosper; preserve.
• To embellish with flourishes, as handwriting, diction, etc.; adorn with flowery or showy words, figures, or lines; in general, to ornament profusely in any way: as, to flourish a signature.
• To finish with care; enlarge and embellish; elaborate.
• To brandish; hold in the hand and shake or wave about; hence, to display ostentatiously; flaunt: as, to flourish a sword or a whip; to flourish one's wealth or finery; to flourish one's authority.
• To gloss over; give a fair appearance to.
• noun A flourishing condition.
• noun Showy adornment; decoration; ornament.
• noun Ostentatious embellishment; ambitious copiousness or amplification; especially, parade of words and figures; rhetorical display.
• noun A figure formed by bold or fanciful lines or strokes of the pen or graver: as, the flourishes about an initial letter.
• noun A brandishing; the waving of something held in the hand: as, the flourish of a sword, a cane, or a whip.
• noun In music: An elaborate but unmeaning passage for display, or as a preparation for real performance.
• noun A trumpet-call; a fanfare.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• intransitive verb To grow luxuriantly; to increase and enlarge, as a healthy growing plant; a thrive.
• intransitive verb To be prosperous; to increase in wealth, honor, comfort, happiness, or whatever is desirable; to thrive; to be prominent and influental; specifically, of authors, painters, etc., to be in a state of activity or production.
• intransitive verb To use florid language; to indulge in rhetorical figures and lofty expressions; to be flowery.
• intransitive verb To make bold and sweeping, fanciful, or wanton movements, by way of ornament, parade, bravado, etc.; to play with fantastic and irregular motion.
• intransitive verb To make ornamental strokes with the pen; to write graceful, decorative figures.
• intransitive verb To execute an irregular or fanciful strain of music, by way of ornament or prelude.
• intransitive verb To boast; to vaunt; to brag.
• transitive verb obsolete To adorn with flowers orbeautiful figures, either natural or artificial; to ornament with anything showy; to embellish.
• transitive verb obsolete To embellish with the flowers of diction; to adorn with rhetorical figures; to grace with ostentatious eloquence; to set off with a parade of words.
• transitive verb To move in bold or irregular figures; to swing about in circles or vibrations by way of show or triumph; to brandish.
• transitive verb obsolete To develop; to make thrive; to expand.
• noun Archaic A flourishing condition; prosperity; vigor.
• noun Decoration; ornament; beauty.
• noun Something made or performed in a fanciful, wanton, or vaunting manner, by way of ostentation, to excite admiration, etc.; ostentatious embellishment; ambitious copiousness or amplification; parade of words and figures; show.
• noun A fanciful stroke of the pen or graver; a merely decorative figure.
• noun A fantastic or decorative musical passage; a strain of triumph or bravado, not forming part of a regular musical composition; a cal; a fanfare.
• noun The waving of a weapon or other thing; a brandishing.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• verb intransitive To thrive or grow well.
• verb intransitive To prosper or fare well.