Bleeding – Blushing

Bleeding

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

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

Blemish

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.

Blemished

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

Blemishing

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

Blemishless

BLEM'ISHLESS, adjective Without blemish; spotless.

Blemishment

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

Blench

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.

Blencher

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

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.

Blended

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

Blender

BLEND'ER, noun One that mingles or confounds.

Blending

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

Blendous

BLEND'OUS, adjective Pertaining to blend.

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

Blenny

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

BLENT, the obsolete participle of blend.

Bless

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.

Blessed

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.

Blessedly

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

Blessedness

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

1. Sanctity.

Blesser

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

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

BLEST, participle passive of bless.

BLEST, adjective Made happy.

1. Making happy; cheering.

While these blest sounds my rafish'd ear assail.

Bletonism

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.

Bletonist

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

Blew

BLEW, preterit tense of blow.

Bleyme

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

Blicea

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

Blight

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

BLIN, verb transitive To stop or cease.

Blind

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

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

Blindfold

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

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

Blindfolding

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

Blinding

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

Blindly

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

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

Blindnettle

BLINDNETTLE, noun A plant.

Blinds

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

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

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

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.

Blinkard

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.

Blinking

BLINK'ING, participle present tense Winking; twinkling.

Bliss

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

Blissful

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

Blissfully

BLISS''FULLY, adverb In a blissful manner.

Blissfulness

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

Blissless

BLISS'LESS, adjective Destitute of bliss.

Blissom

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

Blister

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.

Blistered

BLIS'TERED, participle passive Having blisters or tumors.

Blistering

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

Blite

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

1. A species of amaranth, or flower gentle.

Blithe

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.

Blitheful

BLI'THEFUL, adjective Gay; full of gayeta.

Blithely

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

Blitheness

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

Blithesome

BLI'THESOME, adjective Gay; merry; cheerful.

Blithesomeness

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

Bloat

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

BLOATED, participle passive Swelled; grown turgid; inflated.

Bloatedness

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

Bloating

BLOATING, participle present tense Swelling; inflating.

Blobberlipped

BLOB'BERLIPPED, adjective Having thick lips.

Blobberllip

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

Blober

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

Block

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.

Block-Tin

BLOCK'-TIN, noun [block and tin.] Tin which is pure, unmixed, and unwrought.

Blockade

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.

Blockaded

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

Blockading

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

Blockhead

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

Blockheaded

BLOCK'HEADED, adjective Stupid; dull.

Blockheadly

BLOCK'HEADLY, adjective Like a blockhead.

Blockhouse

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

Blockish

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

Blockishly

BLOCK'ISHLY, adverb In a stupid manner.

Blockishness

BLOCK'ISHNESS, noun Stupidity; dullness.

Blocklike

BLOCK'LIKE, adjective Like a block; stupid.

Blomary

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

Blonket

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

Blood

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-Bespotted

BLOOD-BESPOT'TED, adjective Spotted with blood.

Blood-Boltered

BLOOD-BOLTERED, adjective [blood and bolter.] Sprinkled with blood. [Not used.]

Blood-Consuming

BLOOD-CONSU'MING, adjective Wasting the blood.

Blood-Frozen

BLOOD-FROZEN, adjective Having the blood chilled.

Blood-Hot

BLOOD-HOT, adjective [blood and hot.] As warm as blood in its natural temperature.

Blood-Hound

BLOOD-HOUND, noun [blood and hound.] A species of canis or dog, with long, smooth and pendulous ears, remarkable for the acuteness of its smell, and employed to recover game which had escaped wounded from the hunter, by tracing the lost animal by the blood it had spilt; whence the name of the dog.

Blood-Let

BLOOD-LET, verb transitive To bleed; to let blood.

Blood-Letter

BLOOD'-LETTER, noun One who lets blood, as in diseases; a phlebotomist.

Blood-Root

BLOOD'-ROOT, noun A plant so named from its color; a species of sanguinaria, called also puccoon, turmeric and red root.

Blood-Sucker

BLOOD'-SUCKER, noun [blood and suck.] Any animal that sucks blood, as a leech, a fly, etc. A cruel man; a murderer.

BLOOD'-SUCKING, adjective That sucks or draws blood.

Blood-Thirsty

BLOOD'-THIRSTY, adjective [blood and thirst.] Desirous to shed blood; murderous.

Blood-Vessel

BLOOD'-VESSEL, noun [blood and vessel.] Any vessel in which blood circulates in an animal body; an artery or a vein.

BLOOD'-WARM, adjective Warm as blood; luke warm.

BLOOD'-WITE, noun [blood and wite, a fine or penalty.]

In ancient law, a fine or amercement, paid as a composition for the shedding of blood.

BLOOD'-WOOD, noun [blood and wood.] A name given to log-wood, from its color.

BLOOD'-WORT, noun [blood and wort.] A plant, a species of Rumex.

Blooded

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.

Bloodguiltiness

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

Bloodiness

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

Blooding

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

Bloodless

BLOOD'LESS, adjective Without blood; dead.

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

2. Without spirit or activity.

Bloodletting

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

Bloodpudding

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

BLOOD'-RED, noun Red as blood.

Bloodshed

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

Bloodshedder

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

Bloodshedding

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

Bloodshot

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

Bloodsnake

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.

Bloodstone

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.]

Bloody

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.]

Bloody-Eyed

BLOOD'Y-EYED, adjective Having bloody or cruel eyes.

Bloody-Faced

BLOOD'Y-FACED, adjective Having a bloody face or appearance.

Bloody-Flux

BLOOD'Y-FLUX, noun [blood and flux.] The dysentery, a disease in which the discharges from the bowels have a mixture of blood.

Bloody-Hand

BLOOD'Y-HAND, noun [blood and hand.] A hand stained with the blood of a deer, which, in the old forest laws of England, was sufficient evidence of a man's trespass in the forest against venison.

Bloody-Hunting

BLOOD'Y-HUNTING, adjective Hunting for blood.

Bloody-Minded

BLOOD'Y-MINDED, adjective [blood and mind.] Having a cruel, ferocious disposition; barbarous; inclined to shed blood.

Bloody-Red

BLOOD'Y-RED, adjective Having the color blood.

Bloody-Sceptered

BLOODY-SCEP'TERED, adjective Having a scepter obtained by blood or slaughter.

Bloody-Sweat

BLOOD'Y-SWEAT, noun [blood and sweat.] A sweat, accompanied by a discharge of blood; also a disease, called sweating sickness, which formerly prevailed in England and other countries.

Bloom

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.

Blooming

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.

Bloomingly

BLOOM'INGLY, adverb In a blooming manner.

Bloomy

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

Blore

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

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

Blossom

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.

Blossoming

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

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

Blot

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

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

BLOTCH, verb transitive To blacken.

Blote

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

To dry and smoke; as, to blote herrings.

Bloted

BLO'TED, participle passive Smoked and dried.

Blotted

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

Blotter

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

Blotting

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

Blow

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.

Blow-Ball

BLOW-BALL, noun [blow and ball.] The flower of the dandelion.

Blow-Pipe

BLOW-PIPE, , noun [blow and pipe.] An instrument by which a blast or current of air is driven through the flame of a lamp or candle, and that flame directed upon a mineral substance, to fuse or vitrify it.

BLOW-PIPE of the artist, a conical tube of brass, glass or other substance, usually a quarter of an inch in diameter at one end, and capillary or nearly so at the other, where it is bent nearly to a right angle. This is used to propel a jet of air from the lungs, through the flame of a lamp or candle, upon substance to be fused.

BLOW-PIPE of the mineralogist, the same instrument substantially as the foregoing, but usually fitted with an ivory or silver mouth-piece, and with several movable jets to produce flames of different sizes. Its office is to produce instantly a furnace heat, on minute fragments of mineral substances, supported on charcoal, by platina forceps. etc.

Compound blow-pipe of Dr. Hare, invented in 1821, an instrument in which oxygen and hydrogen, propelled by hydrostatic or other pressure, coming from separate reservoirs, in the proportions requisite to form water, are made to unite in a capillary orifice, at the moment when they are kindled. The heat produced, when the focus is formed on charcoal or any non-conducting substance, is such as to melt every thing but the diamond, to burn the metals, and to dissipate in vapor, or in gaseous forms, most known substances.

The blow-pipe of Newman, Clark, etc. is the compound blow-pipe of Dr. Hare, with some unimportant modifications.

Blow-Point

BLOW-POINT, noun [blow and point.] A kind of play among children.

Blower

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

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

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

Blowth

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

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

A ruddy fat-faced woman.

Blowzy

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

Blub

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

Blubber

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.

Blubbered

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

Blubbering

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

Bludgeon

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

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.

Blue-Bird

BLU'E-BIRD, noun [blue and bird.] A small bird, a species of Motacilla, very common in the U. States. The upper part of the body is blue, and the throat and breast, of a dirty red. It makes its nest in the hole of a tree.

Blue-Bonnet

BLU'E-BONNET, noun [blue and bonnet.] A plant, a species of Centaurea.

Blue-Bottle

BLU'E-BOTTLE, an. [blue and bottle.] A plant, a species of Centaurea, called Cyanus, which grows among corn. This and the former plant receive their names from their blue funnel-shaped flowers.

1. A fly with a large blue belly.

Blue-Cap

BLU'E-CAP, noun [blue and cap.] A fish of the salmon kind, with blue spots on its head.

Blue-Eyed

BLU'E-EYED, adjective Having blue eyes.

Blue-Fish

BLU'E-FISH, noun [blue and fish.] A fish, a species of Coryphaena, of the order of thoracics, found about the Bahamas, and on the coast of Cuba.

Blue-Haired

BLU'E-HAIRED, adjective Having hair of a blue color.

Blue-John

BLU'E-JOHN, noun Among miners, fluor spar, a mineral, found in the mines of Derbyshire, and fabricated into vases and other ornamental figures.

Blue-Throat

BLU'E-THROAT, noun [blue and throat.] A bird with a tawny breast, marked with a sky-blue crescent, inhabiting the northern parts of Europe and Asia.

Blue-Veined

BLU'E-VEINED, adjective Having blue veins or streaks.

Bluely

BLU'ELY, adverb With a blue color.

Blueness

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

Bluff

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.

Bluffness

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

Bluish

BLU'ISH, adjective Blue in a small degree.

Bluishness

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

Blunder

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.

Blunderbuss

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.

Blunderer

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

Blunderhead

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

Blundering

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

Blunderingly

BLUN'DERINGLY, adverb In a blundering manner.

Blunt

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.

Blunted

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

Blunting

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

BLUNT'ING, noun Restraint.

Bluntly

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

Bluntness

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

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

Bluntwitted

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

Blur

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.

Blurred

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

Blurring

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

Blurt

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

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

Blushet

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

Blushing

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