ablow
adjUS /əˈbloʊ/
Etymology From a- + blow.
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Archaic, Postpositional Blossoming, blooming, in blossom.
- [...] The flower breaks from its sheath and is ablow / And gives its richest perfumes. [...]1867, Augusta Webster, “Lota”, in A Woman Sold and Other Poems, London; Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Macmillan and Co., →OCLC, page 238:
- You know, the year's not always May — Oh, once the lilacs were ablow !1891, Lizette Woodworth Reese, “Hallowmas” (poem), in A Handful of Lavender, Houghton, Mifflin and Company, page 13
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- [...] against the green, yet, growing in tilled soil, grow stronger and taller than any daffodil can grow in turf : hundreds of them are ablow together, and the very robustness of their splendour [...]1989, Stephen L. Swynn, Garden Wisdom: Or, from One Generation to Another, Ayer Publishing, →ISBN, page 110:
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Dated, Postpositional Blowing or being blown; windy.