ablow

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Pronunciation

• (America) IPA: /əˈbloʊ/

Adjective

ablow (not comparable)

1. (obsolete, postpositive) Blossoming, blooming, in blossom.
   • 1867, Augusta Webster, “Lota”, in A Woman Sold and Other Poems,^{[http://books.google.com/books?id=Xjfi8f0_XNYC ]} Macmillan and Co., [http://books.google.com/books?id=Xjfi8f0_XNYC&pg=PA238&dq=ablow page 238]:

     “ […] The flower breaks from its sheath and is ablow

     And gives its richest perfumes.”  And I’d muse, […]

   • 1891, Lizette Woodworth Reese, “Hallowmas” (poem), in A Handful of Lavender,^{[http://books.google.com/books?id=aelxXq8zG-EC ]} Houghton, Mifflin and Company, [http://books.google.com/books?id=aelxXq8zG-EC&pg=PA13&dq=ablow page 13]:

     You know, the year's not always May —

     Oh, once the lilacs were ablow !

   • 1989, Stephen L. Swynn, Garden Wisdom: Or, from One Generation to Another,^{[http://books.google.com/books?id=1T_pHS6BL_UC ]} Ayer Publishing, ISBN 0836905024, page 110:

     […] 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 […]

2. (dated, postpositive) Blowing or being blown; windy.

Preposition

1. (Scotland) Below.

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