What is Florid? A Basic Definition

Florid \Flor"id\, a. [L. floridus, fr. flos, floris, flower.
         See
   Flower.]
   1.
         Covered with flowers; abounding in flowers; flowery. [R.]
 
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            Fruit from a pleasant and florid tree. --Jer.
                                                  Taylor.
     
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   2. Bright in color; flushed with red;
         of a lively reddish
      color; as, a florid
         countenance.
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   3. Embellished with
         flowers of rhetoric; enriched to excess
      with figures;
         excessively ornate; as, a florid style;
      florid
         eloquence.
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   4. (Mus.) Flowery;
         ornamental; running in rapid melodic
      figures,
         divisions, or passages, as in variations; full of
     
         fioriture or little ornamentations.
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Off-site Florid Links, User Submitted

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Thu Nov 27

• DBIS - Datenbanken und Informationssy steme

Fri Nov 14

• Film and Television: Jacksonville Economic Development Commission film and TV site

Wed Oct 22

• Vacation Rentals Florida: Our Florida Florida vacation rentals and condos are move from the holiday residence proprietor, just as our villas are in Orlando or neighboring Disney. We can thus secure discount prices

Wed Aug 20

• Ace Pick A Part | Auto Parts | Jacksonville Florida

Thu Jul 24

• Senior Living Online

Sat May 24

• Devinne font family : MyFonts-- rather nice heavy/semiflor id Heading font: good for names

Sat May 10

• deceptionbites ' favorites on del.icio.us: Deception in the church

Thu Feb 7

• NHL.com - NHL Insider

Sat Jul 21

• Several perspectives on Dyna - Dyna as a weighted language: Dyna also tries to improve on Prolog's efficiency. Prolog´s default backtracking search saves on memory but takes exponential time to parse a sentence. Getting Prolog to do something else is both inconvenient and expensive. Johns Hopkins University

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