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Bison

BIS'ON, noun [Latin A quadruped of the bovine genus, usually but improperly called the buffalo. The proper buffalo is a distinct species, peculiar to the warmer climates of the Eastern Continent. The bison is a wild animal, with short, black, rounded horns, with a great interval between their bases. On the shoulders is a large hunch, consisting of a fleshy substance. The head and hunch are covered with a long undulated fleece, of a rust-color, divided into locks. In winter, the whole body is covered in this manner; but in summer, the hind part of the body is naked, and wrinkled. The tail is about a foot long, naked, except a tuft of hairs at the end. The fore parts of the body are very thick and strong; the hind parts are slender and weak. These animals inhabit the interior parts of North America, and some of the mountainous parts of Europe and Asia.

Pennant alleges that the bison of America is the same species of animal as the bison and aurochs of Europe, the bonasus of Aristotle, the urus of Caesar, the bos ferus or wild ox of Strabo, the bison of Pliny, and the biston of Oppian.

Cuvier has not separated the bison of America from that of Europe, He considers their identity as doubtful. The former has the legs and tail shorter, and the hairs of its head and neck longer than in the latter.

Cuvier has not separated the bison of America from that of Europe. He considers their identity as doubtful. The former has the legs and tail shorter, and the hairs of its head and neck longer than in the latter.

Bissextile

BISSEX'TILE, noun [Latin bissextilis, leap year, from bissextus, [bis and sextus] the sixth of the calends of March, or twenty-fourth day of February, which was reckoned twice every fourth year, by the interrelation of a day.]

Leap year; every fourth year, in which a day is added to the month of February, on account of the excess of 6 hours, which the

civil year contains, above 365 days. This excess is 11 minutes 3 seconds too much; that is, it exceeds the real year, or annual revolution of the earth. Hence at the end of every century, divisible by 4, it is necessary to retain the bissextile day, and to suppress it at the end of those centuries which are not divisible by 4.

BISSEX'TILE, adjective Pertaining to the leap year.

Bisson

BIS'SON, adjective Blind. [Not used.]

Bister

BIS'TER, noun Among painters, the burnt oil extracted from the soot of wood; a brown pigment. To prepare it, soot [that os beach is the best' is put into water, in the proportion of two pounds to a gallon, and boiled half an hour; after standing to settle, and while hot, the clearer part of the fluid must be poured off from the sediment, and evaporated to dryness; the remainder is bister

Bistort

BIS'TORT, noun [Latin bistorta, bis and tortus, twisted.]

A plant, a species of polygonum, or many-knotted or angled. In popular language, it is called snake-weed.

Bistoury

BIS'TOURY, noun bis'tury. A surgical instrument for making incisions. It is either straight and fixed in a handle like a knife, or its blade turns like a lancet, or it is crooked, with the sharp edge on the inside.

Bisulcous

BISULC'OUS, adjective [Latin bisulcus, of bis and sulcus, a furrow.]

Cloven footed, as swine or oxen.

Bisulphuret

BISUL'PHURET, noun [bis and sulphuret.] In chimistry, a sulphuret, with a double proportion of sulphur.

Bit

BIT, noun The iron part of a bridle which is inserted in the mouth of a horse, and its appendages, to which the reins are fastened. It includes the bit mouth, the branches, the curb, the sevel holes, the tranchefil and cross chains. Bits are of various kinds, as the musrol, snaffle, or watering bit; the canon mouth, jointed in the middle; the canon or fast mouth, all of a piece, kneed in the middle; the scatch-mouth; the masticador, or slavering bit; etc.

BIT, verb transitive To put a bridle upon a horse; to put the bit in the mouth.

BIT, preterit tense and participle passive of bite. Seized or wounded by the teeth.

BIT, noun A small piece; a mouthful, or morsel; a bite.

1. A small piece of any substance.

3. A small coin of the West Indies, a half pistareen, about ten cents, or five pence sterling.

4. The point of an auger, or other borer; the bite.

This word is used, like jot and whit, to express the smallest degree; as, he is not a bit wiser or better.

Bitch

BITCH, noun

1. The female of the canine kind, as of the dog, wolf, and fox.

2. A name of reproach for a woman.

Bite

BITE, verb transitive preterit tense bit; participle passive bit, bitten.

1. To break or crush with the teeth, as in eating; to pierce with the teeth, as a serpent; to seize with the teeth, as a dog.

2. To pinch or pain, as with cold; as a biting north wind; the frost bites.

3. To reproach with sarcasm; to treat with severity by words or writing; as, one poet praises, another bites.

4. To pierce, cut, or wound; as a biting falchion.

5. To make to smart, as acids bite the mouth.

6. To cheat; to trick.

The rogue was bit.

[Not elegant, but common.]

7. To enter the ground and hold fast, as the bill and palm of an anchor.

8. To injure by angry contention.

If ye bite and devour one another. Galatians 5:15.

BITE, noun The seizure of any thing by the teeth of an animal, as the bite of a dog; or with the mouth, as of a fish.

1. The wound made by the teeth.

2. A morsel; as much as is taken at once by biting; a mouthful.

3. A cheat; a trick; a fraud. [A low word.]

4. A sharper; one who cheats.

Biter

BI'TER, noun One who bites; that which bites; a fish apt to take bait.

1. One who cheats or defrauds.

Biternate

BITERN'ATE, adjective [Latin bis and ternus, three.] In botany, doubly ternate, as when a petiole has three ternate leaflets.

Biting

BI'TING, participle present tense Seizing, wounding, or crushing with the teeth; pinching, paining, causing to smart with cold; reproaching with severity, or treating sarcastically; chesting.

BI'TING, adjective Sharp; severe; sarcastic.

Bitingly

BI'TINGLY, adverb In a sarcastic or jeering manner.

Bitless

BIT'LESS, adjective Not having a bit or bridle.

Bitmouth

BIT'MOUTH, noun [bit and mouth.] The bit, or that part of a bridle which is put in a horse's mouth.

Bittacle

BIT'TACLE, noun The box for the compasses and lights on board a ship. [See Binacle.]

Bitten

BIT'TEN, participle passive of bite. bit'tn. Seized or wounded by the teeth; cheated.

Bitter

BIT'TER, adjective

1. Sharp, or biting to the taste; acrid; like wormwood.

2. Sharp; cruel; severe; as bitter enmity. Hebrews 1:1.

3. Sharp, as words, reproachful; sarcastic.

4. Sharp to the feeling; piercing; painful; that makes to smart; as a bitter cold day, or a bitter blast.

5. Painful to the mind; calamitous; poignant; as a bitter fate.

6. Afflicted; distressed.

The Egyptians made their lives bitter Exodus 1:14.

7. Hurtful; very sinful.

Is is an evil and bitter thing. Jeremiah 2:19.

8. Mournful; distressing; expressive of misory; as a bitter complaint or lamentation. Job 23:2. Jeremiah 6:26.

BIT'TER, noun A substance that is bitter [See bitter ]

BIT'TER, noun [See Bitts.] In marine language, a turn of the cable which is round the bitts.

Bitter-end, that part of a cable which is abaft the bitts, and therefore within board, when the ship rides at anchor.

Bitter-Gourd

BIT'TER-GOURD, noun [bitter and gourd.] A plant, a species of Cucumis, called Colocynthis, Colocynth, Coloquintada. The fruit is of the gourd kind, having a shell inclosing a bitter pulp, which is a very drastic purgative. It is brought from the Levant, and is the bitter apple of the shops.

Bitter-Salt

BIT'TER-SALT, noun Epsom salt.

Bitter-Spar

BIT'TER-SPAR, noun Rhombspar, a mineral that crystallizes in rhomboids. It is the crystallized variety of magnesian limestone.

Bitter-Sweet

BIT'TER-SWEET, noun [bitter and sweet.] A species of Solanum, a slender climbing plant, whose root, when chewed, produces first a bitter, then a sweet taste.

Bitter-Wort

BIT'TER-WORT, noun [bitter and wort.] The plant called gentian, Gentiana, which has a remarkable bitter taste.

Bitterish

BIT'TERISH, adjective Somewhat bitter; bitter in a moderate degree.

Bitterishness

BIT'TERISHNESS, noun The quality of being moderately bitter.

Bitterly

BIT'TERLY, adverb With a bitter taste.

1. In a severe manner; in a manner expressing poignant grief; as, to weep bitterly

2. In a manner severely reproachful; sharply; severely; angrily; as, to censure bitterly

Bittern

BIT'TERN, noun A fowl of the grallic order, the Ardea stellaris, a native of Europe. This fowl has long legs and neck, and stalks among reeds and sedge, feeding upon fish. It makes a singular noise, called by Dryden bumping, and by Goldsmith booming.

BIT'TERN, noun [from bitter.] In salt works, the brine remaining after the salt is concreted. This being laded off, and the salt taken out of the pan, is returned, and being again boiled, yields more salt. It is used in the preparation of Epsom salt, the sulphate of magnesia, and of Glauber's salt, the sulphate of soda.

Bitterness

BIT'TERNESS, noun [from bitter.] A bitter taste; or rather a quality in things which excites a biting disagreeable sensation in the tongue.

1. In a figurative sense, extreme enmity, grudge, hatred; or rather an excessive degree or implacableness of passions and emotions; as the bitterness of anger. Ephesians 4:31.

2. Sharpness; severity of temper.

3. Keenness of reproach; piquancy; biting sarcasm.

4. Keen sorrow; painful affliction; vexation; deep distress of mind.

Hannah was in bitterness of soul. 1 Samuel 1:10. Job 7:11.

In the gall of bitterness in a state of extreme impiety or enmity to God. Acts 8:23.

Root of bitterness a dangerous error, or schism, tending to draw persons to apostasy. Hebrews 12:15.

Bitters

BIT'TERS, noun A liquor in which bitter herbs or roots are steeped; generally a spirituous liquor, the bitter cause of intemperance, of disease, and of premature death!

Bittervetch

BIT'TERVETCH, noun [bitter and vetch.] A species of Ervum, or lentil, cultivated for fodder.

1. A genus of plants, known by the generic name Orobus, remarkable for their beautiful papilionaceous flowers. The tubercles of one species are in great esteem among the Highlanders of Scotland, who chew them, when dry, to give a better relish to their liquors.

Bittour

BIT'TOUR, or BIT'TOR, noun The bittern.

Bitts

BITTS, noun plural [from the same root as bite.] A frame of two strong pieces of timber fixed perpendicularly in the fore part of a ship, on which to fasten the cables, when she rides at anchor. There are also top-sail sheet bitts paul-bitts, carrick-bitts, etc.

BITTS, verb transitive To put round the bitts; as, to bitt the cable, in order to fasten it or to slacken it out gradually, which is called veering away.

Bitume

BITU'ME, noun Bitumen, so written for the sake of the rhyme.

Bitumen

BIT'UMEN

BITU'MEN, noun [Latin] This name is used to denote various inflammable substances, of a strong smell, and of different consistencies, which are found in the earth. There are several varieties, most of which evidently pass into each other, proceeding from Naphtha, the most fluid, to Petroleum, a viscid fluid, Maltha, more or less cohesive, elastic bitumen or mineral caoutchouc, and Asphalt, which is sometimes too hard to be scratched by the nail.

Bituminate

BITU'MINATE, verb transitive To impregnate with bitumen.

Bituminated

BITU'MINATED, adjective Impregnated with bitumen.

Bituminiferous

BITUMINIF'EROUS, adjective [bitumen and fero, to produce.]

Producing bitumen.

Bituminize

BITU'MINIZE, verb transitive To form into, or impregnate with bitumen.

Bituminous

BITU'MINOUS, adjective Having the qualities of bitumen; compounded with bitumen; containing bitumen.Limestone is of a lamellar structure, susceptible of polish, of a brown or black color, and when rubbed emitting an unpleasant smell. That of Dalmatia is so charged with bitumen, that it may be cut like soap.

Bivalve

BI'VALVE, noun [Latin bis, twice, and valve. Latin valva]

An animal having two valves, or a shell consisting of two parts which open and shut. Also a pericarp in which the seed-case opens or splits into two parts.

BI'VALVE

Bivalvous

BIVALV'OUS, adjective Having two shells or valves which open and shut, as the oyster and the seed cases of certain plants.

Bivalvular

BIVALV'ULAR

BIVAULT'ED, adjective [Latin bis, twice, and vault.] Having two vaults or arches.

Bivaulted

BIVAULT'ED, a. [L. bis, twice, and vault.] Having two vaults or arches.

Biventral

BIVENT'RAL, adjective [Latin bis and venter, belly.] Having two bellies; as a biventral muscle.

Bivious

BIV'IOUS, adjective [Latin bivius; bis and via, way.] Having two ways, or leading two ways.

Bivouac

BIVOUAC, noun [Latin vigilo.] The guard or watch of a whole army, as in cases of great danger of surprise or attack.

BIVOUAC, verb transitive To watch or be on guard, as a whole army.

[This word anglicized would be bewatch.]

Bixwort

BIX'WORT, noun A plant.

Biza

BIZA, noun A coin of Pegu, of the value of half a ducat; also, a weight.

Blaast

BLA'AST, noun [Eng. blaze, which is primarily a blowing or swelling.]

1. A gust or puff of wind; or a sudden gust of wind.

2. The sound made by blowing a wind instrument.

3. Any pernicious or destructive influence upon animals or plants.

4. The infection of any thing pestilential; a blight on plants.

5. A sudden compression of air, attended with a shock, caused by the discharge of cannon.

6. A forcible stream of air from the mouth, from a bellows or the like.

7. A violent explosion of gun powder, in splitting rocks, and the explosion of inflammable air in a mine.

8. The whole blowing of a forge necessary to melt one supply of ore; a common use of the word among workmen in forges in American.

Blab

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.

Blabber

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

Blabbing

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

Black

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-Bird

BLACK'-BIRD, noun [black and bird.] In England, the merula, a species of turdus, a singing bird with a fine note, but very loud. In America, this name is given to different birds, as to the gracula quiscula, or crow black-bird and to the oriolus phaeniceus, or red winged black-bird

BLACK-'BOOK, noun [black and book.] The Black Book of the Exchequer in England, is a book said to have been composed in 1175, by Gervais of Tilbury. It contains a description of the Court of Exchequer, its officers, their ranks and privileges, wages, perquisites and jurisdiction, with the revenues of the crown, in money, grain and cattle.

1. Any book which treats of necromancy.

2. A book compiled by order of the visitors of monasteries, under Henry VIII., containing a detailed account of the enormities practiced in religious houses, to blacken them and to hasten their dissolution.

Black-Browed

BLACK'-BROWED, adjective [black and brow.] Having black eye-brows; gloomy; dismal; threatening; as a black-browed gust.

Black-Bryony

BLACK-BRY'ONY, noun [black and bryony.] A plant, the Tamus.

Black-Cap

BLACK-CAP, noun [black and cap.] A bird, the Motacilla atricapilla, or mock-nightingale; so called from its black crown. It is common in Europe.

1. In cookery, an apple roasted till black, to be served up in a dish of boiled custard.

BLACK'-CATTLE, noun [black and cattle.] Cattle of the bovine genus, as bulls, oxen and cows. [English.]

Black-Chalk

BLACK-CHALK, noun A mineral of a bluish black color, of a slaty texture, and soiling the fingers when handled; a variety of argillaceous slate.

BLACK'-COCK, noun [black and cock.] A fowl, called also black-grous and black-game, the Tetrao tetrix of Linne.

BLACK'-EAGLE, noun [black and eagle.] In Scotland, a name given to the Falco fulvus, the white tailed eagle of Edwards.

BLACK'-EARTH, noun Mold; earth of a dark color.

Black-Faced

BLACK'-FACED, adjective Having a black face.

BLACK'-FISH, noun [black and fish.] A fish in the Orontes, about twenty inches long, in shape resembling the sheat-fish. Its eyes are placed near the corners of its mouth on the edge of the lower jaw.

1. In the U. States, a fish caught on the rocky shores of New England.

Black-Forest

BLACK-FOREST, noun [black and forest.] A forest in Germany, in Swabia; a part of the ancient Hercynian forest.

Black-Friar

BLACK-FRIAR, noun Black-friars is a name given to the Dominican Order, called also Predicants and preaching friars; in France, Jacobins.

BLACK'-GUARD, noun [said to be of black and guard; but is it not a corruption of black-ard, black-king?]

A vulgar term applied to a mean fellow, who uses abusive, scurrilous language, or treats others with foul abuse.

Black-Lead

BLACK'-LEAD, noun A mineral of a dark steel-gray color, and of a scaly texture, composed of carbon, with a small portion of iron. This name, black-lead is improper, as it contains no lead. It is called plumbago, and technically graphite, as it is used for pencils.

BLACK'-LEGS, noun In some parts of England, a disease among calves and sheep. It is a sort of jelly which settles in the legs and sometimes in the neck.

Blacked

BLACK'ED, participle passive Made black; soiled.

Blacken

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.

Blackener

BLACK'ENER, noun He that blackens.

BLACK'-EYED, adjective Having black eyes.

Blacking

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.

Blackish

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.

Blackly

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.

Blackness

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.

Blacksea

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.

Blacksmith

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.

Bladder

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.

Bladder-Nut

BLAD'DER-NUT, noun [bladder and nut.] A genus of plants, with the generic name of Staphyloea. They have three capsules, inflated and joined by a longitudinal suture.

1. The African bladder nut is the Royena.

2. The laurel-leaved bladder-nut is a species of Ilex, holm or holly.

Bladder-Senna

BLAD'DER-SENNA, or bastard-senna, a genus of plants, called in botany Colutea.

The jointed-podded bladder-senna is the Coronilla.

Bladdered

BLAD'DERED, adjective Swelled like a bladder.

Bladdery

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

Blade

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

Blade-Bone

BLA'DE-BONE, noun The scapula, or upper bone in the shoulder.

Blade-Smith

BLA'DE-SMITH, noun A sword cutler.

Bladed

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

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.

Blamable

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

Blamableness

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

Blamably

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

Blame

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.

Blamed

BLA'MED, participle passive Censured; disapproved.

Blameful

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

Blameless

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.

Blamelessly

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

Blamelessness

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

Blamer

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

Blameworthiness

BLA'MEWORTHINESS, noun The quality of deserving censure.

Blameworthy

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

Blaming

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

Blanc-Manger

BLANC-MANGER, pronoun blomonge. In cookery, a preparation of dissolved isinglass, milk, sugar, cinnamon, etc., boiled into a thick consistence, and garnished for the table with blanched almonds.

Blancard

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

Blanch

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

Blanched

BL'ANCHED, participle passive Whitened.

Blancher

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

Blanchimeter

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

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

Blanching

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

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

Blandiloquence

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

Fair, mild, flattering speech.

Blandish

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

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

Blandisher

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

Blandishing

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

BLAND'ISHING, noun Blandishment.

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

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.

Blanked

BLANK'ED, participle passive Confused; dispirited.

Blanket

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

Blanketing

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

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

1. Cloth for blankets.

Blankly

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

Blare

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.

Blaspheme

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.

Blasphemer

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

Blaspheming

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

Blasphemous

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

Blasphemously

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

Blasphemy

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.

Blast

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.

Blasted

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

Blaster

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

Blasting

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.

Blastment

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

Blatant

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

Blatter

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

To make a senseless noise.

Blatterer

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

Blay

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

Blaze

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.

Blazed

BLA'ZED, participle passive Published far and wide.

Blazer

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

Blazing

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

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

Blazing-Star

BLAZ'ING-STAR, noun A comet; a star that is accompanied with a coma or train of light.

Blazon

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.

Blazoned

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

Blazoner

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

Blazoning

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

Blazonry

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

Blea

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

Bleach

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.

Bleached

BLE'ACHED, participle passive Whitened; made white.

Bleacher

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

Bleachery

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

Bleaching

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

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

Bleak

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

BLEAKISH, adjective Moderately bleak.

Bleakness

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

Blear

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.

Blear-Eyed

BLE'AR-EYED, adjective Having sore eyes; having the eyes dim with rheum; dim-sighted.

Blearedness

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

Bleat

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.

Bleating

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

BLE'ATING, noun The cry of a sheep.

Bleb

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

A little tumor, vesicle or blister.

Arsenic abounds with air blebs.

Blebby

BLEBBY, adjective Full of blebs.

Bled

BLED, preterit tense and participle passive of bleed.

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.