BLAB, verb transitive

1. To utter or tell in a thoughtless manner; to publish secrets or trifles without discretion. It implies, says Johnson, rather thoughtlessness than treachery, but may be used in either sense.

2. To tell, or utter; in a good sense.

BLAB, verb intransitive To tattle; to tell tales.

BLAB, noun A babbler; a telltale; one who betrays secrets, or tell things which ought to be kept secret.

BLAB'BER, noun A tattler; a tell-tale.

BLAB'BING, participle present tense Telling indiscreetly what ought to be concealed; tattling.

BLACK, adjective

1. Of the color of night; destitute of light; dark.

2. Darkened by clouds; as the heavens black with clouds.

3. Sullen; having a cloudy look or countenance.

4. Atrociously wicked; horrible; as a black deed or crime.

5. Dismal; mournful; calamitous.

BLACK and blue, the dark color of a bruise in the flesh, which is accompanied with a mixture of blue.

BLACK, noun That which is destitute of light or whiteness; the darkest color, or rather a destitution of all color; as, a cloth has a good black

1. A negro; a person whose skin is black

2. A black dress, or mourning; as, to be clothed in black

BLACK, verb transitive To make black; to blacken; to soil.

BLACK'-ACT, noun [black and act.] The English statute 9.Geo.I. which makes it felony to appear armed in any park or warren, etc., or

to hunt or steal deer, etc., with the face blacked or disguised.

BLACK'-BALL, noun [black and ball.] A composition for blacking shoes.

BLACK'-BALL, verb transitive To reject or negative in choosing, by putting black balls into a ballot-box.

BLACK'-BAR, noun [black and bar.] A plea obliging the plaintiff to assign the place of trespass.

BLACK'-BERRY, noun The berry of the bramble or rubus; a popular name applied, in different places, to different species, or varieties of this fruit.

BLACK'ED, participle passive Made black; soiled.

BLACK'EN, verb transitive

1. To make black.

The importation of slaves that has blackened half America.

2. To make dark; to darken; to cloud.

3. To soil.

4. To sully reputation; to make infamous; as, vice blackens the character.

BLACK'EN, verb intransitive To grow black, or dark.

BLACK'ENER, noun He that blackens.

BLACK'-EYED, adjective Having black eyes.

BLACK'ING, participle present tense Making black.

BLACK'ING, noun A substance used for blacking shoes, variously made; any factitious matter for making things black.

BLACK'ISH, adjective Somewhat black; moderately black or dark.

BLACK'-JACK, A name given by miners to blend, a mineral called also false galena, and blend. It is an ore of zink, in combination with iron and sulphur, sulfuret of zink.

1. A leathern cup of old times.

BLACK'LY, adverb Darkly; atrociously.

BLACK'-MAIL, noun A certain rate of money, corn, cattle or other thing, anciently paid, in the north of England, to certain men, who were allied to robbers, to be by them protected from pillage.

1. Black rent, or rents paid in corn or flesh.

BLACK'-MONDAY, noun Easter Monday, in 34. Ed.III., which was misty, obscure, and so cold that men died on horseback.

BLACK'-MONKS, noun A denomination given to the Benedictines.

BLACK'-MOOR, noun [black and moor.] A negro; a black man.

BLACK'-MOUTHED, adjective Using foul or scurrilous language.

BLACK'NESS, noun The quality of being black; black color; darkness; atrociousness or enormity in wickedness.

BLACK'-PUDDING, noun A kind of food made of blood and grain.

BLACK'-ROD, noun [black and rod.] In England, the usher belonging to the order of the garter; so called from the black rod which he carries. He is of the king's chamber and usher of Parliament.

BLACK-ROW GRAINS, noun A species of iron stone or ore, found in the mines about Dudley in Staffordshire, England.

BLACK'SEA, noun [black and sea.] The Euxine Sea, on the eastern border of Europe.

BLACK'-SHEEP, noun [black and sheep.] In oriental history, the ensign or standard of a race of Turkmans in Armenia and Mesopotamia.

BLACK'SMITH, noun [black and smith.] A smith who works in iron, and makes iron utensils; more properly, an iron-smith.

Black'-strakes, in a ship, are a range of planks immediately above the wales in a ship's side, covered with tar and lamp-black.

BLACK'-TAIL, noun [black and tail.] A fish, a kind of perch, called also a ruff or pope.

BLACK'-THORN, noun [black and thorn.] A species of prunus, called also sloe. It grows ten or twelve feet high, very branchy, and armed with sharp, strong spines, and bearing small, round, black cherries. It is much cultivated for hedges.

BLACK'-TIN, noun [black and tin.] Tin ore, when dressed, stamped and washed ready for melting. It is the ore comminuted by beating into a black power, like fine sand.

BLACK'-VISAGED, adjective Having a dark visage or appearance.

BLACK'-WADD, noun [black and wadd.] An ore of manganese, found in Derbyshire, England, and used as a drying ingredient in paints. It is remarkable for taking fire, when mixed with linseed oil in a certain proportion.

BLACK'-WORK, noun [black and work.] Iron wrought by black-smiths; so called in distinction from that wrought by white-smiths.

BLAD'-APPLE, noun In botany, the cactus or a species of it.

BLAD'DER, noun [Eng.a blade; Latin latus.]

1. A thin membranous bag in animals, which serves as the receptacle of some secreted fluid, as the urinary bladder the gall bladder etc. By way of eminence, the word, in common language, denotes the urinary bladder either within the animal, or when taken out and inflated with air.

2. Any vesicle, blister or pustule, especially if filled with air, or a thin, watery liquor.

3. In botany, a distended membranaceous pericarp.

BLAD'DERED, adjective Swelled like a bladder.

BLAD'DERY, adjective Resembling a bladder; containing bladders.

BLADE, noun [Gr.broad.]

1. The stalk or spire of a plant, particularly of grass and corn; but applicable to the stalk of any herbaceous plant, whether green or dry.

2. A leaf. In this sense much used in the Southern States of noun America, for the leaves of maize, which are used as fodder.

3. The cutting part of an instrument, as the blade of a knife, or sword, so named from its length or breadth. Usually, it is made of iron or steel, but may be of any other metal, cast or wrought to an edge or point. Also, the broad part of an oar.

4. The blade of the shoulder, shoulder-blade, or blade-bone, is the scapula, or scapular bone. It is the broad upper bone of the shoulder, so called from its resemblance to a blade or leaf.

5. A brisk man; a bold, forward man; a rake.

BLADE, verb transitive To furnish with a blade

BLA'DED, participle passive Having a blade or blades. It may be used of blade in the sense of a leaf, a spire, or the cutting part of an instrument.

1. In mineralogy, composed of long and narrow plates, like the blade of a knife.

BLAIN, noun A pustule; a botch; a blister. In farriery, a bladder growing on the root of the tongue, against the wind pipe, which swells so as to stop the breath.

BLA'MABLE, adjective [See Blame.] Faulty; culpable; reprehensible; deserving of censure.

BLA'MABLENESS, noun Culpableness; fault; the state of being worthy of censure.

BLA'MABLY, adverb Culpably; in a manner deserving of censure.

BLAME, verb transitive [The Greeks have the root of this word, to blaspheme.]

1. To censure; to express disapprobation of; to find fault with; opposed to praise or commend, and applicable most properly to persons, but applied also to things.

I withstood him, because he was to be blamed. Galatians 2:11.

I must blame your conduct; or I must blame you for neglecting business. Legitimately, it cannot be followed by of.

2. To bring reproach upon; to blemish; to injure. [See Blemish.]

She had blamed her noble blood.

BLAME, noun Censure; reprehension; imputation of a fault; disapprobation; an expression of disapprobation for something deemed to be wrong.

Let me bear the blame forever. Genesis 43:9.

1. Fault; crime; sin; that which is deserving of censure or disapprobation.

That we should be holy and without blame before him in love. Ephesians 1:4.

2. Hurt; injury.

And glancing down his shield, from blame him fairly blest.

The sense of this word, as used by Spenser, proves that it is a derivative from the root of blemish.

To blame in the phrase, he is to blame signifies blamable, to be blamed.

BLAME is not strictly a charge or accusation of a fault; but it implies an opinion in the censuring party, that the person censured is faulty. blame is the act or expression of disapprobation for what is supposed to be wrong.

BLA'MED, participle passive Censured; disapproved.

BLA'MEFUL, adjective Faulty; meriting blame; reprehensible.

BLA'MELESS, adjective Without fault; innocent; guiltless; not meriting censure.

A bishop then must be blameless 1 Timothy 3:2.

Sometimes followed by of.

We will be blameless of this thine oath. Joshua 2:17.

BLA'MELESSLY, adverb Innocently; without fault or crime.

BLA'MELESSNESS, noun Innocence; a state of being not worthy of censure.

BLA'MER, noun One who blames, finds fault or censures.

BLA'MEWORTHINESS, noun The quality of deserving censure.

BLA'MEWORTHY, adjective [blame and worthy.] Deserving blame; censurable; culpable; reprehensible.

BLA'MING, participle present tense Censuring; finding fault.

BLANC'ARD, noun A kind of linen cloth, manufactured in Normandy, so called because the thread is half blanched before it is woven.

BL'ANCH, verb transitive

1. To whiten; to take out the color, and make white; to obliterate.

2. To slur; to balk; to pass over; that is to avoid; to make empty.

3. To strip or peel; as, to blanch almonds.

BL'ANCH, verb intransitive To evade; to shift; to speak softly.

Rather, to fail or withhold; to be reserved; to remain blank, or empty.

Books will speak plain, when counselors blanch

BL'ANCHED, participle passive Whitened.

BL'ANCHER, noun One who whitens; also, one who anneals, and cleanses money.

BLANCHIM'ETER, noun [blanch, and Gr. measure.]

An instrument for measuring the bleaching power of oxymuriate [chloride] of lime, and potash.

BL'ANCHING, participle present tense Whitening. In coinage, the operation of giving brightness to pieces of silver, by heating them on a peel, and afterwards boiling them successively in two pans of copper, with aqua fortis, common salt, and tartar of Montpelier; then draining off the water in a sieve; sand and fresh water are then thrown over them, and when dry, they are rubbed with a towel.

The covering of iron plates with a thin coat of tin is also called blanching

Blanch-fern, or blank farm, in ancient law, a white farm, was one, where the rent was paid in silver, not in cattle.

Blanch-holding, in law, a tenure by which the tenant is bound to pay only an elusory yearly duty to his superior, as an acknowledgment to his right.

BLAND, adjective [Latin blandus.] Mild; soft; gentle; as bland words; bland zephyrs.

BLANDIL'OQUENCE, noun [Latin blandus, mild, and loquor, to speak.]

Fair, mild, flattering speech.

BLAND'ISH, verb transitive [Latin blandior; Old Eng. blandise.]

To soften; to caress; to flatter by kind words or affectionate actions.

BLAND'ISHER, noun One that flatters with soft words.

BLAND'ISHING, , participle present tense Soothing or flattering with fair words.

BLAND'ISHING, noun Blandishment.

BLAND'ISHMENT, noun Soft words; kind speeches; caresses; expression of kindness; words or actions expressive of affection or kindness, and tending to win the heart.

BLANK, adjective

1. Void; empty; consequently white; as a blank paper.

2. White or pale; as the blank moon.

3. Pale from fear or terror; hence confused; confounded; dispirited; dejected.

Adam--astonished stood, and blank

4. Without rhyme; as blank verse, verse in which rhyme is wanting.

5. Pure; entire; complete.

6. Not containing balls or bullets; as blank cartridges.

This word is applied to various other objects, usually in the sense of destitution, emptiness; as a blank line; a blank space, in a book.etc.

BLANK, noun Any void space; a void space on paper, or in any written instrument.

1. A lot by which nothing is gained; a ticket in a lottery which draws no prize.

2. A paper unwritten; a paper without marks or characters.

3. A paper containing the substance of a legal instrument, as a deed, release, writ or execution, with vacant spaces left to be filled with names, date, descriptions. etc.

4. The point to which an arrow is directed, marked with white paper. [Little used.]

5. Aim; shot.

6. Object to which any thing is directed.

7. A small copper coin formerly current in France, at the rate of 5 deniers Tournois. There were also pieces of three blanks, and of six; but they are now become moneys of account.

BLANK-bar, in law, a common bar, or a plea in bar, which, in an action of trespass, is put in to oblige the plaintiff to assign the place where the trespass was committed.

Point-blank, in gunnery, the shot of a gun leveled horizontally. The distance between the piece, and the point where the shot first touches the ground, is called the point-blank range; the shot proceeding on a straight line, without curving.

BLANK, verb transitive To make void; to annul.

1. To deprive of color, the index of health and spirits; to damp the spirits; to dispirit or confuse; as, to blank the face of joy.

BLANK'ED, participle passive Confused; dispirited.

BLANK'ET, noun

1. A cover for a bed, made of coarse wool loosely woven, and used for securing against cold. Blankets are used also by soldiers, and seamen, for covering.

2. A kind of pear, sometimes written after the French, blanquet.

3. Among printers, woolen cloth or white baize, to lay between the tympans.

BLANK'ET, verb transitive To toss in a blanket by way of punishment; an ancient custom. The Emperor Otho used to sally forth in dark nights, and if he found a drunken man, he administered the discipline of the blanket

1. To cover with a blanket

BLANK'ETING, participle present tense Tossing in a blanket.

BLANK'ETING, noun The punishment of tossing in a blanket.

1. Cloth for blankets.

BLANK'LY, adverb In a blank manner; with paleness or confusion.

BLARE, verb intransitive [Latin ploro, to dry out, to bawl, to weep.]

1. To roar; to bellow. [Little used.]

2. To sweal or melt away, as a candle.

This is, I believe, usually called flare.

BLARE, noun Roar; noise. [Little used.]

And sign for battle's blare

1. A small copper coin of Bern, nearly of the same value as the ratz.

BLASPHE'ME, verb transitive [Gr. The first syllable is the same as in blame, blasme, denoting injury; Latin loedo, loesus; The last syllable is the Gr., to speak.]

1. To speak of the Supreme Being in terms of impious irreverence; to revile or speak reproachfully of God, or the Holy Spirit. 1 Kings 21:10. Mark 3:28.

2. To speak evil of; to utter abuse or calumny against; to speak reproachfully of.

BLASPHE'ME, verb intransitive To utter blasphemy.

He that shall blaspheme against the Holy Spirit shall not be forgiven. Mark 3:29.

1. To arrogate the prerogatives of God.

This man blasphemeth. Who can forgive sins but God? rnMat 9:3 Mark 2:7.

BLASPHE'MER, noun One who blasphemes; one who speaks of God in impious and irreverent terms. 1 Timothy 1:13.

BLASPHE'MING, participle present tense Uttering impious or reproachful words concerning God.

BLAS'PHEMOUS, adjective Containing blasphemy; calumnious; impiously irreverent or reproachful towards God.

BLAS'PHEMOUSLY, adverb Impiously; with impious irreverence to God.

BLAS'PHEMY, noun An indignity offered to God by words or writing; reproachful, contemptuous or irreverent words uttered impiously against Jehovah.

Blasphemy is an injury offered to God, by denying that which is due and belonging to him, or attributing to him that which is not agreeable to his nature.

In the middle ages, blasphemy was used to denote simply the blaming or condemning of a person or thing. Among the Greeks, to blaspheme was to use words of ill omen, which they were careful to avoid.

1. That which derogates from the prerogatives of God. Mark 2:1.

BL'AST, verb transitive [Literally, to strike.] To make to wither by some pernicious influence, as too much heat or moisture, or other destructive cause; or to check growth and prevent from coming to maturity and producing fruit; to blight, as trees or plants.

1. To affect with some sudden violence, plague, calamity, or destructive influence, which destroys or causes to fail; as, to blast pride or hopes. The figurative senses of this verb are taken from the blasting of plants, and all express the idea of checking growth, preventing maturity, impairing, injuring, destroying, or disappointing of the intended effect; as, to blast credit, or reputation; to blast designs.

2. To confound, or strike with force, by a loud blast or din.

3. To split rocks by an explosion of gun powder.

They did not stop to blast this ore.

BL'ASTED, participle passive Affected by some cause that checks growth, injures, impairs, destroys, or renders abortive; split by an explosion of gunpowder.

BL'ASTER, noun He or that which blasts or destroys.

BL'ASTING, participle present tense Affecting by a blast; preventing from coming to maturity; frustrating; splitting by an explosion of gun powder.

BL'ASTING, noun A blast; destruction by a pernicious cause; explosion.

BL'ASTMENT, noun Blast; sudden stroke of some destructive cause. [Superseded by blast and blasting.]

BLA'TANT, adjective [See Bleat.] Bellowing as a calf. [Not used.]

BLAT'TER, verb intransitive [from the root of bleat.]

To make a senseless noise.

BLAT'TERER, noun A noisy blustering boaster. [Not used.]

BLAY, noun [See Bleak.] A small river fish, the bleak.

BLAZE, noun [Eng.to blush.]

1. Flame; the stream of light and heat from any body when burning, proceeding from the combustion of inflammable gas.

2. Publication; wide diffusion of report. In this sense, we observe the radical sense of dilatation, as well as that of light.

3. A white spot on the forehead or face of a horse, descending nearly to the nose.

4. Light; expanded light; as the blaze of day.

5. Noise; agitation; tumult.

BLAZE, verb intransitive To flame; as, the fire blazes.

1. To send forth or show a bright and expanded light.

The third fair morn now blazed upon the main.

2. To be conspicuous.

BLAZE, verb transitive To make public far and wide.

To blaze those virtues which the good would hide.

1. To blazon. [Not used. See Blazon.]

2. To set a white mark on a tree, by paring off a part of the bark.

BLA'ZED, participle passive Published far and wide.

BLA'ZER, noun One who publishes and spreads reports.

BLA'ZING, participle present tense Flaming; publishing far and wide.

BLA'ZING, adjective Emitting flame, or light; as a blazing star.

BLA'ZON, verb transitive bla'zn.

1. To explain, in proper terms, the figures on ensigns armorial.

2. To deck; to embellish; to adorn.

She blazons in dread smiles her hideous form.

3. To display; to set to show; to celebrate by words or writing.

4. To blaze about; to make public far and wide.

5. To display; to exhibit conspicuously.

There pride sits blazon'd on th' unmeaning brow.

BLA'ZON, noun The art of drawing, describing or explaining coats of arms; perhaps a coat of arms, as used by the French.

1. Publication; show; celebration; pompous display, either by words or by other means.

BLA'ZONED, participle passive Explained, deciphered in the manner of heralds; published abroad; displayed pompously.

BLA'ZONER, noun One that blazons; a herald; an evil speaker, or propagator of scandal.

BLA'ZONING, participle present tense Explaining, describing as heralds; showing; publishing; blazing abroad; displaying.

BLA'ZONRY, noun The art of describing coats of arms, in proper terms.

BLEA, noun The part of a tree, which lies immediately under the bark.

BLEACH, verb transitive [Eng. bleak.]

To whiten; to make white or whiter; to take out color; applied to many things, but particularly to cloth and thread. Bleaching is variously performed, but in general by steeping the cloth in lye, or a solution of pot or pearl ashes, and then exposing it to the solar rays.

BLEACHing is now generally performed, on the large scale, by means of chlorine or the oxymuriatic acid, which has the property of whitening vegetable substances.

BLEACH, verb intransitive To grow white in any manner.

BLE'ACHED, participle passive Whitened; made white.

BLE'ACHER, noun One who whitens, or whose occupation is to whiten cloth.

BLE'ACHERY, noun A place for bleaching; as a wax bleachery

BLE'ACHING, participle present tense Whitening; making white; becoming white.

BLE'ACHING, noun The act or art of whitening, especially cloth.

BLEAK, adjective

1. Pale. [But not often used in this sense, in America, as far as my observations extend.]

2. Open; vacant; exposed to a free current of air; as a bleak hill or shore. This is the true sense of the word; hence cold and cheerless. A bleak wind is not so named merely from its coldness, but from its blowing without interruption, on a wide waste; at least this is the sense in America. So in Addison. 'Her desolation presents us with nothing but bleak and barren prospects.'

BLEAK, noun A small river fish, five or six inches long, so named from its whiteness. It belongs to the genus Cyprinus, and is known to the Londoners by the name of white bait. It is called also by contraction blay.

BLEAKISH, adjective Moderately bleak.

BLE'AKNESS, noun Openness of situation; exposure to the wind; hence coldness.

BLEAR, adjective Sore, with a watery rheum; applied only to the eyes; as the blear-eyed owl.

BLEAR, verb transitive To make sore; to affect with soreness of eyes, or a watery humor; to make dim or partially obscure the sight.

BLE'AREDNESS, noun The state of being bleared, or dimmed with rheum.

BLEAT, verb intransitive [Latin blatero; plaudo.] To make the noise of a sheep; to cry as a sheep.

BLEAT, noun The cry of a sheep.

BLE'ATING, participle present tense or adjective Crying as a sheep.

BLE'ATING, noun The cry of a sheep.

BLEB, noun [This word belongs to the root of blab, blubber.]

A little tumor, vesicle or blister.

Arsenic abounds with air blebs.

BLEBBY, adjective Full of blebs.

BLED, preterit tense and participle passive of bleed.

BLEED, verb intransitive preterit tense and participle passive bled.

1. To lose blood; to run with blood, by whatever means; as, the arm bleeds.

2. To die a violent death, or by slaughter.

The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to day.

3. To issue forth, or drop as blood, from an incision; to lose sap, gum or juice; as, a tree or a vine bleeds.

For me the balm shall bleed

The heart bleeds, is a phrase used to denote extreme pain from sympathy or pity.

BLEED, verb transitive To let blood; to take blood from, by opening a vein.

BLEE'DING, participle present tense Losing blood; letting blood; losing sap or juice.

BLEE'DING, noun a running or issuing of blood, as from the nose; a hemorrhage; the operation of letting blood, as in surgery; the drawing of sap from a tree or plant.

BLEIT, adjective Bashful; used in Scotland and the northern counties of England.

BLEM'ISH, verb transitive

1. Too mark with any deformity; to injure or impair any thing which is well formed, or excellent; to mar, or make defective, either the body or mind.

2. To tarnish, as reputation or character; to defame.

BLEM'ISH, noun Any mark of deformity; any scar or defect that diminishes beauty, or renders imperfect that which is well formed.

1. Reproach; disgrace; that which impairs reputation; taint; turpitude; deformity.

BLEM'ISHED, participle passive Injured or marred by any mark of deformity; tarnished; soiled.

BLEM'ISHING, participle present tense Marking with deformity; tarnishing.

BLEM'ISHLESS, adjective Without blemish; spotless.

BLEM'ISHMENT, noun Disgrace. [Little used.]

BLENCH, verb intransitive [This evidently is the blanch of Bacon [see Blanch.] and perhaps the modern flinch.]

To shrink; to start back to give way.

BLENCH, verb transitive To hinder or obstruct, says Johnson. But the etymology explains the passage he cites in a different manner. 'The rebels carried great trusses of hay before them, to blench the defendants' fight.' That is, to render the combat blank; to render it ineffectual; to break the force of the attack; to deaden the shot.

BLENCH, noun A start.

BLENCH'ER, noun That which frustrates.

BLENCH'-HOLDING, noun A tenure of lands upon the payment of a small sum in silver, blanck, that is, white money.

BLEND, noun

An ore of zink, called also mock-lead, false galena and black jack. Its color is mostly yellow, brown and black. There are several varieties, but in general, this ore contains more than half its weight of zink, about one fourth sulphur, and usually a small portion of iron. In chimical language, it is a sulphuret of zink.

BLEND, verb transitive

1. To mix or mingle together; hence to confound, so that the separate things mixed cannot be distinguished.

2. To pollute by mixture; to spoil or corrupt.

3. To blind.

BLEND, verb intransitive To be mixed; to be united.

There is a tone of solemn and sacred feeling that blends with our conviviality.

BLEND'ED, participle passive Mixed; confounded by mixture.

BLEND'ER, noun One that mingles or confounds.

BLEND'ING, participle present tense Mingling together; confounding by mixture.

BLEND'OUS, adjective Pertaining to blend.

BLEND'-WATER, noun A distemper incident to cattle, called also more-hough.

BLEN'NY, noun A genus of fishes, of the order of Jugulars, in Ichthyology called Blennius. There are several species; the size from five inches to a foot in length.

BLENT, the obsolete participle of blend.

BLESS, verb transitive preterit tense and participle present tense blessed or blest.

1. To pronounce a wish of happiness to one; to express a wish or desire of happiness.

And Isaac called Jacob and blessed him. Genesis 28:3.

2. To make happy; to make successful; to prosper in temporal concerns; as, we are blest with peace and plenty.

The Lord thy God shall bless thee in all thou doest. Deuteronomy 15:4.

3. To make happy in a future life.

BLESSed are the dead who die in the Lord. Revelation 14:13.

4. To set apart or consecrate to holy purposes; to make and pronounce holy.

And God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it. Genesis 2:3

5. To consecrate by prayer; to invoke a blessing upon.

And Jesus took the five loaves and the two fishes, and looking up to heaven he blessed them. Luke 9:16.

6. To praise; to glorify, for benefits received.

BLESS the Lord, O my soul, and all that is within me. Psalms 103:1.

7. To praise; to magnify; to extol, for excellencies. Psalms 104:1.

8. To esteem or account happy; with the reciprocal pronoun.

The nations shall bless themselves in him. Jeremiah 4:2.

9. To pronounce a solemn prophetical benediction upon. Genesis 2:37. Deuteronomy 33:11.

10. In this line of Spenser, it may signify to throw, for this is nearly the primary sense.

His sparkling blade about his head he blest.

Johnson supposes the word to signify to wave or brandish, and to have received this sense from the old rite of blessing a field, by directing the hands to all parts of it.

BLESS in Spenser for bliss, may be so written, not for rhyme merely, but because bless and bliss are from the same root.

BLESS'ED, participle passive Made happy or prosperous; extolled; pronounced happy.

BLESS'ED, adjective Happy; prosperous in worldly affairs; enjoying spiritual happiness and the favor of God; enjoying heavenly felicity.

Blessed-Thistle. A plant of the genus Cnicus, sometimes used in decoctions, for a bitter.

BLESS'EDLY, adverb Happily; in a fortunate manner.

BLESS'EDNESS, noun Happiness; felicity; heavenly joys; the favor of God.

1. Sanctity.

BLESS'ER, noun One that blesses or prospers; one who bestows a blessing.

BLESS'ING, participle present tense Making happy; wishing happiness to; praising or extolling; consecrating by prayer.

BLESS'ING, noun Benediction; a wish of happiness pronounced; a prayer imploring happiness upon another.

1. A solemn prophetic benediction, in which happiness is desired, invoked or foretold.

This is the blessing wherewith Moses--blessed the children of Israel. Deuteronomy 33:1.

2. Any means of happiness; a gift, benefit or advantage; that which promotes temporal prosperity and welfare, or secures immortal felicity. A just and pious magistrate is a public blessing The divine favor is the greatest blessing

3. Among the Jews, a present; a gift; either because it was attended with kind wishes for the welfare of the giver, or because it was the means of increasing happiness.

Take, I pray thee, my blessing that is brought to thee. Genesis 33:11.

BLEST, participle passive of bless.

BLEST, adjective Made happy.

1. Making happy; cheering.

While these blest sounds my rafish'd ear assail.

BLE'TONISM, noun The faculty of perceiving and indicating subterraneous springs and currents by sensation; so called from one Bleton of France who possessed this faculty.

BLE'TONIST, noun One who possesses the faculty of perceiving subterraneous springs by sensation.

BLEW, preterit tense of blow.

BLEYME, noun An inflammation in the foot of a horse, between the sole and the bone.

BLICE'A, noun A small fish caught in the German seas, somewhat resembling the English sprat.

BLIGHT, noun

1. A disease incident to plants, affecting them variously. sometimes the whole plant perishes; sometimes only the leaves and blossoms, which will shrivel, as if scorched.

2. Any thing nipping or blasting.

In America, I have often heard a cutaneous eruption on the human skin called by the name of blights.

BLIGHT, verb transitive To affect with blight; to blast; to prevent growth, and fertility; to frustrate.

BLIN, verb transitive To stop or cease.

BLIND, adjective

1. Destitute of the sense of seeing, either by natural defect, or by deprivation; not having sight.

2. Not having the faculty of discernment; destitute of intellectual light; unable to understand or judge; ignorant; as authors are blind to their own defects.

BLIND should be followed by to; but it is followed by of, in the phrase, blind of an eye.

3. Unseen; ; out of public view; private; dark; sometimes implying contempt or censure; as a blind corner.

4. Dark; obscure; not easy to be found; not easily discernible; as a blind path.

5. Heedless; inconsiderate; undeliberating.

This plan is recommended neither to blind approbation or blind reprobation.

6. In scripture, blind implies not only want of discernment, but moral depravity.

BLIND, verb transitive To make blind; to deprive of sight.

1. To darken; to obscure to the eye.

Such darkness blinds the sky.

2. To darken the understanding; as, to blind the mind.

3. To darken or obscure to the understanding.

He endeavored to blind and confound the controversy.

4. To eclipse.

BLIND, or BLINDE, See Blend, an ore.

BLIND, noun Something to hinder the sight.

Civility casts a blind over the duty.

1. Something to mislead the eye or the understanding; as, one thing serves as a blind for another.

2. A screen; a cover; as a blind for a window, or for a horse.

BLINDED, participle passive Deprived of sight; deprived of intellectual discernment; made dark or obscure.

BLINDFOLD, adjective [blind and fold.] Having the eyes covered; having the mental eye darkened.

BLINDFOLD, verb transitive To cover the eyes; to hinder from seeing.

BLINDFOLDED, participle passive Having the eyes covered; hindered from seeing.

BLINDFOLDING, participle present tense Covering the eyes; hindering from seeing.

BLINDING, participle present tense Depriving of sight, or of understanding; obscuring.

BLINDLY, adverb Without sight, or understanding.

1. Without discerning the reason; implicitly; without examination; as, to be blindly led by another.

2. Without judgment or direction.

BLINDMAN'S BALL, noun A species of fungus, Lycoperdo, or puff-ball.

BLINDMAN'S BUFF, noun A play in which one person is blindfolded, and hunts out the rest of the company.

BLINDNESS, noun Want of bodily sight; want of intellectual discernment; ignorance.

BLINDNETTLE, noun A plant.

BLINDS, noun In the military art, a defense made of osiers or branches interwoven, and laid across two rows of stakes, four or five feet asunder, of the highth of a man, to shelter the workmen, and prevent their being overlooked by the enemy.

BLIND SERPENT, noun A reptile of the Cape of Good Hope, covered with black scales, but spotted with red, white and brown.

BLINDSIDE, noun [blind and side.] The side which is most easily assailed; or the side on which the party is least able or disposed to see danger; weakness; foible; weak part.

BLIND VESSEL, with chimists, a vessel with an opening on one side only.

BLINDWORM, noun [blind and worm.] A small reptile, called also slow worm, a species of Anguis, about eleven inches long, covered with scales, with a forked tongue, but harmless.

BLINK, verb intransitive

1. To wink; to twinkle with the eye.

2. To see obscurely. Johnson. Is it not to see with the eyes half shut, or with frequent winking, as a person with weak eyes?

One eye was blinking and one leg was lame.

BLINK, noun A glimpse or glance.

BLINK, noun blink of ice, is the dazzling whiteness about the horizon, occasioned by the reflection of light from fields of ice at sea.

BLINK'ARD, noun [blink and ard, kind.] A person who blinks or has bad eyes; that which twinkles, or glances, as a dim star, which appears and disappears.

BLINK'ING, participle present tense Winking; twinkling.

BLISS, noun The highest degree of happiness; blessedness; felicity; used of felicity in general, when of an exalted kind, but appropriately, of heavenly joys.

BLISS'FUL, adjective Full ofjoy and felicity; happy in the highest degree.

BLISS''FULLY, adverb In a blissful manner.

BLISS'FULNESS, noun Exalted happiness; felicity; fullness ofjoy.

BLISS'LESS, adjective Destitute of bliss.

BLIS'SOM, verb intransitive To be lustful; to caterwaul. [Little used.]

BLIS'TER, noun

1. A pustule; a thin bladder on the skin, containing watery matter or serum, whether occasioned by a burn, or other injury, or by a vesicatory. It is formed by raising the cuticle.

2. Any tumor made by the separation of the film or skin, as on plants; or by the swelling of the substance at the surface, as on steel.

3. A vesicatory; a plaster of flies, or other matter, applied to raise a vesicle.

BLIS'TER, verb transitive To rise in blisters.

BLIS'TER, verb transitive To raise a blister by any hurt, burn or violent action upon the skin; to raise a blister by a medical application, or vesicatory.

1. To raise tumors on iron bars in a furnace, in the process of converting iron into steel.

BLIS'TERED, participle passive Having blisters or tumors.

BLIS'TERING, participle present tense Raising a blister; applying a blistering plaster, or vesicatory.

BLITE, noun [Latin blitum.] A genus of plants, called strawberry spinach.

1. A species of amaranth, or flower gentle.

BLITHE, adjective [Latin loetus; Eng. glad. See Bliss and glad.]

Gay; merry; joyous; sprightly; mirthful.

For that fair female troop thou sawest, that seemed

Of goddesses, so blithe so smooth, so gay.

BLI'THEFUL, adjective Gay; full of gayeta.

BLI'THELY, adverb In a gay, joyful manner.

BLI'THENESS, noun Gayety; sprightliness; the quality of being blithe.

BLI'THESOME, adjective Gay; merry; cheerful.

BLI'THESOMENESS, noun The quality of being blithesome; gayety.

BLOAT, verb transitive [This word may be allied to bladder, from the sense of inflating, swelling.]

1. To swell or make turgid, as with air; to inflate; to puff up; hence, to make vain; followed by up, but without necessity. To bloat up with praise is less elegant than to bloat with praise.

2. To swell or make turgid with water, or other means; as a bloated limb. It is used to denote a morbid enlargement, often accompanied with softness.

BLOAT, verb intransitive To grow turgid; to dilate.

BLOAT, adjective Swelled; turgid. [Not used.]

BLOATED, participle passive Swelled; grown turgid; inflated.

BLOATEDNESS, noun A turgid state; turgidness; dilation from inflation, debility, or any morbid cause.

BLOATING, participle present tense Swelling; inflating.

BLOB'BERLIPPED, adjective Having thick lips.

BLOB'BERLLIP, noun [blobber and lip.] A thick lip.

BLO'BER, n. A bubble; pronounced by the common people in America, blubber, It is a legitimate word, but not elegant.

BLOCK, noun

1. A heavy piece of timber or wood, usually with one plain surface; or it is rectangular, and rather thick than long.

2. Any mass of matter with an extended surface; as a block of marble, a piece rough from the quarry.

3. A massy body, solid and heavy; a mass of wood, iron, or other metal, with at least one plain surface, such as artificers use.

4. The wood on which criminals are beheaded.

5. Any obstruction, or cause of obstruction; a stop; hindrance; obstacle.

6. A piece of wood in which a pulley runs; used also for the pulley, or the block itself and the sheaves, or wheels.

7. A blockhead; a stupid fellow.

8. Among cutters in wood, a form made of hard wood, on which they cut figures in relief with knives, chisels, etc.

9. In falconry, the perch whereon a bird of prey is kept.

BLOCK, verb transitive To inclose or shut up, so as to hinder egress or passage; to stop up; to obstruct, by placing obstacles in the way; often followed by up; as, to block up a town, or a road.

BLOCKA'DE, noun The siege of a place, formed by surrounding it with hostile troops or ships, or by posting them at all the avenues, to prevent escape, and hinder supplies of provisions and ammunition from entering, with a view to compel a surrender, by hunger and want, without regular attacks.

To constitute a blockade the investing power must be able to apply its force to every point of practicable access, so as to render it dangerous to attempt to enter; and there is no blockade of that port, where its force cannot be brought to bear.

BLOCKA'DE, verb transitive To shut up a town or fortress, by posting troops at all the avenues, to compel the garrison or inhabitants to surrender by means of hunger and want, without regular attacks; also, to station ships of war to obstruct all intercourse with a town or nation.

BLOCKA'DED, participle passive Shut up or inclosed by an enemy.

BLOCKA'DING, participle present tense Besieging by a blockade.

BLOCK'HEAD, noun [block and head.] A stupid fellow; a dolt; a person deficient in understanding.

BLOCK'HEADED, adjective Stupid; dull.

BLOCK'HEADLY, adjective Like a blockhead.

BLOCK'HOUSE, noun [block and house.] A house or fortress, erected to block up a pass, and defend against the entrance of an enemy.

BLOCK'ISH, adjective Stupid; dull; deficient in understanding.

BLOCK'ISHLY, adverb In a stupid manner.

BLOCK'ISHNESS, noun Stupidity; dullness.

BLOCK'LIKE, adjective Like a block; stupid.

BLO'MARY, noun [See Bloom, a mass if iron.] The first forge through which iron passes, after it is melted from the ore.

BLONK'ET, adjective Gray. [Not used.]

BLOOD, noun

1. The fluid which circulates through the arteries and veins of the human body, and of other animals, which is essential to the preservation of life. This fluid is generally red. If the blood of an animal is not red, such animal is called exsanguious, or white-blooded; the blood being white, or white tinged with blue.

2. Kindred; relation by natural descent from a common ancestor; consanguinity.

God hath made of one blood all nations of the earth. Acts 17:26.

3. Royal lineage; blood royal; as a prince of the blood

4. Honorable birth; high extraction; as a gentleman of blood

5. Life.

Shall I not require his blood at your hands? 2 Samuel 4:11.

6. Slaughter; murder, or bloodshedding.

I will avenge the blood of Jezreel upon the house of Jehu. Hosea 1.

The voice of thy brother's blood crieth to me from the ground. Genesis 4:10.

7. Guilt, and punishment.

Your blood be upon your own heads. Acts 18:6.

8. Fleshly nature; ; the carnal part of man; as opposed to spiritual nature, or divine life.

Who were born, not of flesh and blood nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. John 1:13.

9. Man, or human wisdom, or reason.

Flesh and blood hath not revealed it to thee, but my Father who is in heaven. Matthew 16:17.

10. A sacramental symbol of the blood of Christ.

This is my blood of the New Testament, which is shed for the remission of sins. Matthew 26:28.

11. The death and sufferings of Christ.

Being now justified by his blood we shall be saved from wrath through him. Romans 5:3.

12. The price of blood; that which is obtained by shedding blood and seizing goods.

Wo to him that buildeth a town with blood Habakkuk 2:8. Acts 1.

13. Temper of mind; state of the passions; but in this sense, accompanied with cold or warm, or other qualifying word. Thus to commit an act in cold blood is to do it deliberately, and without sudden passion. Warm blood denotes a temper inflamed or irritated; to warm or head the blood is to excite the passions.

14. A hot spark; a man of fire or spirit; a rake.

15. The juice of any thing, especially if red; as, 'the blood of grapes.' Genesis 4:109.

Whole blood In law, a kinsman of the whole blood is one who descends from the same couple of ancestors; of the half blood one who descends from either of them singly, by a second marriage.

BLOOD, verb transitive To let blood; to bleed by opening a vein.

1. To stain with blood

2. To enter; to inure to blood; as a hound.

3. To heat the blood; to exasperate. [Unusual.]

BLOOD'ED, participle passive Bled; stained with blood; inured to blood.

BLOOD'-FLOWER, noun [blood and flower.] Haemanthus, a genus of plants, natives of the Cape of Good Hope.

BLOOD'GUILTINESS, noun [blood and guilt.] The guilt or crime of shedding blood. Psalms 51:14.

BLOOD'INESS, noun The state of being bloody; disposition to shed blood.

BLOOD'ING, participle present tense Letting blood; staining with blood; inuring to blood, as a hound.

BLOOD'LESS, adjective Without blood; dead.

1. Without shedding of blood or slaughter; as a bloodless victory.

2. Without spirit or activity.

BLOOD'LETTING, noun [blood and let.] The act of letting blood, or bleeding by opening a vein.

BLOOD'PUDDING, noun [blood and pudding.] A pudding made with blood and other materials.

BLOOD'-RED, noun Red as blood.

BLOOD'SHED, noun [blood and shed.] The shedding or spilling of blood; slaughter; waste of life; the crime of shedding blood.

BLOOD'SHEDDER, noun One who sheds blood; a murderer.

BLOOD'SHEDDING, noun The shedding of blood; the crime of shedding blood.

BLOOD'SHOT, adjective [blood and shoot.] Red and inflamed by a turgid state of the blood vessels, as in diseases of the eye.

BLOOD'SNAKE, noun A species of snake, the haemorrhus.

BLOOD'-SPAVIN, noun [blood and spavin.] A dilatation of the vein that runs along the inside of the hock of a horse, forming a soft swelling.

BLOOD'-STAINED, adjective Stained with blood; also, guilty of murder.

BLOOD'STONE, noun [blood and stone.] A stone, imagined, if worn as an amulet, to be a good preventive of bleeding at the nose. [See Hematite.]

BLOOD'Y, adjective Stained with blood.

1. Cruel; murderous; given to the shedding of blood; or having a cruel, savage disposition; applied to animals.

2. Attended with bloodshed; marked by cruelty; applied to things; as a bloody battle.

BLOOD'Y, verb transitive To stain with blood.

BLOODY', adverb Very; as bloody sick, bloody drunk. [This is very vulgar.]

BLOOM noun

1. Blossom; the flower of a plant; an expanded bud.

While opening blooms diffuse their sweets around.

2. The opening of flowers in general; flowers open, or in a state of blossoming; as, the trees are clothed with bloom

3. The state of youth, resembling that of blossoms; a state of opening manhood, life, beauty, and vigor; a state of health and growth, promising higher perfection; as the bloom of youth.

4. The blue color upon plums and grapes newly gathered.

BLOOM, verb intransitive To produce or yield blossoms; to flower.

1. To be in a state of healthful, growing youth and vigor; to show the beauty of youth; as blooming graces.

BLOOM, verb transitive To put forth as blossoms.

Charitable affection bloomed them. [Not in use.]

BLOOM, noun [Latin plumbum, lead, properly a lump.]

A mass of iron that has passed the blomary, or undergone the first hammering.

BLOOM'ING, participle present tense Opening in blossoms; flowering; thriving in the health, beauty, and vigor of youth; showing the beauties of youth.

His blooming laurels graced the muse's seat.

BLOOM'INGLY, adverb In a blooming manner.

BLOOM'Y, adjective Full of bloom; flowery; flourishing with the vigor of youth; as a bloomy spray; bloomy beauties.

BLORE, noun [This is a different orthography of blare, which see.]

The act of blowing; a blast. [Not used.]

BLOS'SOM, noun [Gr. a bud, probably from the same root.]

1. The flower or corol of a plant; a general term, applicable to every species of tree or plant, but more generally used than flower or bloom, when we have reference to the fruit which is to succeed. Thus we use flowers, when we speak of shrubs cultivated for ornament; and bloom, in a more general sense, as flowers in general, or in reference to the beauty of flowers.

2. This word is used to denote the color of a horse, that has his hair white, but intermixed with sorrel and bay hairs; otherwise, peach-colored.

BLOS'SOM, verb intransitive To put forth blossoms or flowers; to bloom; to blow; to flower.

1. To flourish and prosper.

The desert shall blossom as the rose. Isaiah 35:1.

BLOS'SOMING, participle present tense Putting forth flowers; blowing.

BLOS'SOMING, noun The blowing or flowering of plants.

BLOT, verb transitive [Latin litura, [whence lituro, oblitero.] without the prefix.]

1. To spot with ink; to stain or bespatter with ink; as, to blot a paper.

2. To obliterate writing or letters with ink, so as to render the characters invisible, or not distinguishable; generally with out; as, to blot out a word or a sentence.

3. To efface; to erase; to cause to be unseen, or forgotten; to destroy; as, to blot out a crime, or the remembrance of any thing.

4. To stain with infamy; to tarnish; ; to disgrace; to disfigure.

BLOT not thy innocence with guiltless blood.

5. To darken

He sung how earth blots the moon's gilded wane.

6. In scripture, to blot one out of the book of life, is to reject him from the number of those who are to be saved. To blot out a name, a person or a nation, is to destroy the person or nation; to exterminate or consume. To blot out sins, is to forgive them. Sins are compared to debts, which are recorded in God's book of remembrance, and when paid, are crossed or cancelled.

BLOT, noun A spot or stain on paper, usually applied to ink.

1. An obliteration of something written or printed.

2. A spot in reputation; a stain, a disgrace; a reproach; a blemish.

3. Censure; scorn; reproach.

He that rebuketh the wicked getteth a blot Proverbs 9:7.

4. In backgammon, when a single man lies open to be taken up.

BLOTCH, noun A pustule upon the skin; an eruption, usually of a large kind.

BLOTCH, verb transitive To blacken.

BLOTE, verb transitive [The affinities of this word are not clearly ascertained.]

To dry and smoke; as, to blote herrings.

BLO'TED, participle passive Smoked and dried.

BLOT'TED, participle passive Stained; spotted; erased.

BLOT'TER, noun In counting houses, a waste book.

BLOT'TING, participle present tense Spotting with ink; obliterating; staining.

BLOW, noun [This probably is a contracted word, and the primary sense must be, to strike, thrust, push, or throw, that is, to drive. I have not found it in the cognate dialects. If g or other palatal letter is lost, it corresponds in elements with the Latin plaga

fligo; Eng.flog.]

1. The act of striking; more generally the stroke; a violent application of the hand, fist, or an instrument to an object.

2. The fatal stroke; a stroke that kills; hence, death.

3. An act of hostility; as, the nation which strikes the first blow Hence, to come to blows, is to engage in combat, whether by individuals, armies, fleets or nations; and when by nations, it is war.

4. A sudden calamity; a sudden or severe evil. In like manner, plaga in Latin gives rise to the Eng. plague.

5. A single act; a sudden event; as, to gain or lose a province at a blow or by one blow

At a stroke is used in like manner.

6. An ovum or egg deposited by a fly, on flesh or other substance, called a fly-blow.

BLOW, verb transitive preterit tense blew; participle passive blown. [Latin flo, to blow This word probably is from the same root as bloom, blossom, blow a flower.]

1. To make a current of air; to move as air; as, the wind blows. Often used with it; as, it blows a gale.

2. To pant; to puff; to breathe hard or quick.

Here is Mrs. Page at the door, sweating and blowing.

3. To breathe; as, to blow hot and cold.

4. To sound with being blown, as a horn or trumpet.

5. To flower; to blossom; to bloom; as plants.

How blows the citron grove.

To blow over, to pass away without effect; to cease or be dissipated; as, the storm or the clouds are blown over.

To blow up, to rise in the air; also, to be broken and scattered by the explosion of gunpowder.

BLOW, verb transitive To throw or drive a current of air upon; as, to blow the fire; also, to fan.

1. To drive by a current of air; to impel; as, the tempest blew the ship ashore.

2. To breathe upon, for the purpose of warming; as, to blow the fingers in a cold day.

3. To sound a wind instrument; as, blow the trumpet.

4. To spread by report.

And through the court his courtesy was blown.

5. To deposit eggs, as flies.

6. To form bubbles by blowing.

7. To swell and inflate, as veal; a practice of butchers.

8. To form glass into a particular shape by the breath, as in glass manufactories.

9. To melt tin, after being first burnt to destroy the mundic.

To blow away, to dissipate; to scatter with wind.

To blow down, to prostrate by wind.

To blow off, to shave down by wind, as to blow off fruit from trees; to drive from land, as to blow off a ship.

To blow out, to extinguish by a current of air, as a candle.

To blow up, to fill with air; to swell; as, to blow up a bladder or a bubble.

10. To inflate; to puff up; as, to blow up one with flattery.

11. To kindle; as, to blow up a contention.

12. To burst, to raise into the air, or to scatter, by the explosion of gunpowder. Figuratively, to scatter or bring to naught suddenly; as, to blow up a scheme.

To blow upon, to make stale; as, to blow upon an author's works.

BLOW, noun A flower; a blossom. This word is in general use in the U. States, and legitimate. In the Tatler, it is used for blossoms in general, as we use blowth.

1. Among seamen, a gale of wind. This also is a legitimate word, in general use in the U. States.

BLOWER, noun One who blows; one who is employed in melting tin.

1. A plate of iron for drawing up a fire in a stove chimney.

BLOWING, participle present tense Making a current of air; breathing quick; sounding a wind instrument; inflating; impelling by wind; melting tin.

BLOWING, noun The motion of wind or act of blowing

BLOWN, participle passive Driven by wind; fanned; sounded by blowing; spread by report; swelled; inflated; expanded as a blossom.

BLOWTH, noun Bloom or blossom, or that which is expanded. It signifies bloom or blossoms in general, or the state of blossoming. Thus we say, trees are now in their blowth or they have a full blowth

BLOWZE, noun blowz. [From the same root as blush, which see.]

A ruddy fat-faced woman.

BLOWZ'Y, adjective Ruddy-faced; fat and ruddy; high colored.

BLUB, verb transitive To swell. [Not in use. See Bleb.]

BLUB'BER, noun [See Blobber, Blob and Bleb.]

1. A blobber, or bubble; a common vulgar word, but legitimate.

2. The fat of whales and other large sea animals, of which is made train-oil. It lies immediately under the skin and over the muscular flesh.

3. Sea nettle, or sea blubber the medusa.

BLUB'BER, verb intransitive To weep in such a manner as to swell the cheeks.

If I mistake not, this word carries with it the idea of weeping, so as to slaver.

BLUB'BER, verb transitive To swell the cheeks or disfigure the face with weeping.

BLUB'BERED, participle passive Swelled; big; turgid; as a blubbered lip.

BLUB'BERING, participle present tense Weeping so as to swell the cheeks.

BLUD'GEON, noun A short stick, with one end loaded or thicker and heavier than the other, and used as an offensive weapon by low persons.

BLUE, adjective blu. One of the seven colors, into which the rays of light divide themselves, when refracted through a glass prism. There are various shades of blue as sky-blue, or azure, Prussian blue indigo blue smalt blue etc.

Prussian blue a combination of the oxyd of iron with an acid called ferro-prussic.

BLU'E, verb transitive To make blue; to dye of a blue color; to make blue by heating, as metals etc.

BLU'ELY, adverb With a blue color.

BLU'ENESS, noun The quality of being blue; a blue color.

BLUFF, adjective [Eng.leap, from shooting forward.]surly; blustering.

BLUFF, noun A high bank, almost perpendicular, projecting into the sea; a high bank presenting a steep front.

BLUFF'-BOWED, adjective [bluff and bow.] Having broad and flat bows.

BLUFF'-HEADED, adjective [bluff and head.] Having an upright stem.

BLUFF'NESS, noun A swelling or bloatedness; surliness.

BLU'ISH, adjective Blue in a small degree.

BLU'ISHNESS, noun A small degree of blue color.

BLUN'DER, verb intransitive [This word seems to be allied to the Gr., to err, and to flounder. The sense of the latter is to move with sudden jerks, and irregular motions.]

1. To mistake grossly; to err widely or stupidly.

2. To move without direction, or steady guidance; to plunge at an object; to move, speak or write with sudden and blind precipitance; as, to blunder upon a reason; to blunder round a meaning.

3. To stumble, as a horse; a common use of the word.

BLUN'DER, noun A mistake through precipitance, or without due exercise of judgment; a gross mistake.

BLUN'DERBUSS, noun [blunder.] A short gun or fire-arm, with a large bore, capable of holding a number of balls, and intended to do execution without exact aim.

BLUN'DERER, noun One who is apt to blunder, or to make gross mistakes; a careless person.

BLUN'DERHEAD, noun [blunder and head.] A stupid fellow; one who blunders.

BLUN'DERING, participle present tense Moving or acting with blind precipitance; mistaking grossly; stumbling.

BLUN'DERINGLY, adverb In a blundering manner.

BLUNT, adjective [from the root of Gr.to dull.]

1. Having a thick edge or point, as an instrument; dull; not sharp.

2. Dull in understanding; slow of discernment.

3. Abrupt in address; plain; unceremonious; wanting the forms of civility; rough in manners or speech.

4. Hard to penetrate. [Unusual.]

BLUNT, verb transitive To dull the edge or point, by making it thicker.

1. To repress or weaken any appetite, desire or power of the mind; to impair the force of any passion which affects the mind, or of any evil or good which affects the body; as, to blunt the edge of love, of pain, or of suffering.

Your ceaseless endeavors will be exerted to blunt the stings of pain.

BLUNT'ED, participle passive Made dull; weakened; impaired; repressed.

BLUNT'ING, participle present tense Making dull; repressing; impairing.

BLUNT'ING, noun Restraint.

BLUNT'LY, adverb IN a blunt manner; coarsely; plainly; abruptly without delicacy, or the usual forms of civility.

BLUNT'NESS, noun Want of edge or point; dullness; obtuseness; want of sharpness.

1. Coarseness of address; roughness of manners, rude sincerity or plainness.

BLUNT'WITTED, adjective [blunt and wit.] Dull; stupid.

BLUR, noun [Latin luridus.] A dark spot; a stain; a blot, whether upon paper or other substance, or upon reputation.

BLUR, verb transitive To obscure by a dark spot, or by any foul matter, without quite effacing.

1. To sully; to stain; to blemish; as, to blur reputation.

BLUR'RED, participle passive Darkened or stained; obscured.

BLUR'RING, participle present tense Darkening or staining; spotting.

BLURT, verb transitive [Allied probably to flirt, to throw.]

To throw out, or throw at random, hastily, or unadvisedly; to utter suddenly or inadvertently; commonly with out, and applied to words.

BLUSH, verb intransitive

1. To redden in the cheeks or face; to be suddenly suffused with a red color in the cheeks or face, from a sense of guilt, shame, confusion, modesty, diffidence or surprise; followed by at or for, before the cause of blushing; as, blush at your vices; blush for your degraded country.

In the presence of the shameless and unblushing, the young offender is ashamed to blush

2. To bear a blooming red color, or any soft bright color; as the blushing rose.

He bears his blushing honors thick upon him.

Shakespeare has used this word in a transitive sense, to make red, and it may be allowable in poetry.

BLUSH, noun A red color suffusing the cheeks only, or the face generally, and excited by confusion, which may spring from shame, guilt, modesty, diffidence or surprise.

The rosy blush of love.

1. A red or reddish color.

2. Sudden appearance; a glance; a sense taken from the sudden suffusion of the face in blushing; ; as, a proposition appears absurd at first blush

BLUSH'ET, noun A young modest girl. [Not used.]

BLUSH'ING, participle present tense Reddening in the cheeks or face; bearing a bright color.

BLUSH'LESS, adjective Unblushing; past blushing; impudent.

BLUSH'Y, adjective Like a blush; having the color of a blush.

BLUS'TER, verb intransitive [Probably allied to blaze, blast.]

1. To be loud, noisy or swaggering; to bully; to purr; to swagger; as a turbulent or boasting person.

2. To roar, and be tumultuous, as wind; to be boisterous; to be windy; ; to hurry.

BLUS'TER, noun Noise; tumult; boasting; boisterousness; turbulence; roar of a tempest; violent wind; hurry; any irregular noise and tumult from wind, or from vanity.

BLUS'TERER, noun A swaggerer; a bully; a noisy, tumultuous fellow, who makes great pretensions from vanity.

BLUS'TERING, participle present tense Making a noise; puffing; boasting.

BLUS'TERING, adjective Noisy; tumultuous; windy.

BLUS'TROUS, adjective Noisy; tumultuous; boastful.