verb

• (intransitive) To thrive or grow well.
  "The barley flourished in the warm weather."
• (intransitive) To prosper or fare well.
  "The town flourished with the coming of the railway."
• (intransitive) To be in a period of greatest influence.
  "His writing flourished before the war."
• (transitive) To develop; to make thrive; to expand.
  "But all that I ſhall ſay in this vvhole Argument, vvill be but like Bottomes of Thred, cloſe vvound vp, vvhich vvith a good Needle (perhaps) may be flouriſhed into large VVorkes."

noun

• (music) A ceremonious passage such as a fanfare.
  "The trumpets blew a flourish as they entered the church."
• (architecture) A decorative embellishment on a building.