1. (a.) Bright in color; flushed with red; rosy; flowery; as, a florid countenance\.

2. (a.) Covered with flowers; abounding in flowers; flowery.

3. (a.) Embellished with flowers of rhetoric; enriched to excess with figures; excessively ornate; as, a florid style; florid eloquence.

4. (a.) Flowery; ornamental; running in rapid melodic figures, divisions, or passages, as in variations; full of fioriture or little ornamentations.

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