flowering:
1.
blooming (fig.) H5 III. iii. 14; “
youth,” bloom of manhood 1H6 II. v. 56.
2.
flowery
2H6 III. i. 228
“the snake, roll'd in a
bank,”
Rom. III. ii. 73
“O serpent heart, hid
with a
face”
(cf.
Mac. I. v. 66
“look like the innocent
flower, But be the serpent
under't”
).