Obs. exc. dial. Also 7 blouth, 7– (s.w. dial.) blooth. [f. BLOW v.2 + -TH: cf. growth.] Blowing or blossoming; blossom, bloom.
1602. Carew, Cornwall, in Wither, Prosop. Brit. The tree Which forth this blooth hath brought.
1614. Raleigh, Hist. World, I. 155. The seeds and effects … were as yet but potentiall, and in the blowth and bud.
1769. Month. Rev., XLII. 185. The thorn’s first blowth.
1859. Capern, Ball. & Songs, 129. The furze-blooth on the hill.
1862. Barnes, Rhymes Dorset Dial., II. 95. A zummer hedge in blooth.
