a genus of mammals consisting of the shrews.

harshly or unpleasantly loud (in sound intensity); -- used mostly of electronic entertainment devices, such as TV, radio, or phonograph.

Smooth, wheedling talk; flattery.

To influence by blarney; to wheedle with smooth talk; to make or accomplish by blarney.

Having the sensibilities deadened by excess or frequency of enjoyment; sated or surfeited with pleasure; uninterested because of frequent exposure or indulgence; used up.

To utter blasphemy.

One who blasphemes.

Speaking or writing blasphemy; uttering or exhibiting anything impiously irreverent; profane; as, a blasphemous person; containing blasphemy; as, a blasphemous book; a blasphemous caricature.

In a blasphemous manner.

An indignity offered to God in words, writing, or signs; impiously irreverent words or signs addressed to, or used in reference to, God; speaking evil of God; also, the act of claiming the attributes or prerogatives of deity.

To be blighted or withered; as, the bud blasted in the blossom.

to begin ascending from the ground under rocket power; -- of a rocket.

Blighted; withered.

The structureless, protoplasmic tissue of the embryo; the primitive basis of an organ yet unformed, from which it grows.

Relating to the blastema; rudimentary.

Connected with, or proceeding from, the blastema; blastemal.

One who, or that which, blasts or destroys.

A small, clear space in the segments of the ovum, the precursor of the nucleus.

A blast; destruction by a blast, or by some pernicious cause.

A sudden stroke or injury produced by some destructive cause.

Germinating inside the pericarp, as the mangrove.

The cavity inside a blastula; -- also called segmentation cavity.

of or pertaining to a blastocoel.

The germinal vesicle.

an undifferentiated embryonic cell.

the early stage of an embryo after the first cleavages of the ovum; also, the layer of cells of which the early embryo is composed; the early embryo developing from a blastodisc, after the blastocoel has formed. in an insect embryo, the layer of cells that surrounds the internal mass of the yolk.

Of or pertaining to the blastoderm.

a disc-shaped layer of cells on the surface of the yolk mass of an egg (such as that of a bird) which develops to form the embryo.

the launching of a rocket, especially of a spacecraft, under its own power.

Multiplication or increase by gemmation or budding.

One of the Blastoidea.

One of the divisions of Crinoidea found fossil in paleozoic rocks; pentremites. They are so named on account of their budlike form.

One of the segments first formed by the division of the ovum.

any of various yeastlike budding fungi of the genus Blastomyces; -- they may cause disease in humans and other animals.

any of several fungal infections caused by blastomycetes; they are characterized by inflammatory lesions of skin and mucous membranes or internal organs.

of or pertaining to blastomycosis.

That portion of the spermatospore which is not converted into spermatoblasts, but carries them.

Relating to the blastophore.

The pore or opening leading into the cavity of invagination, or archenteron.

of or pertaining to a blastopore.

The hollow globe or sphere formed by the arrangement of the blastomeres on the periphery of an impregnated ovum.

In certain hydroids, an imperfect zooid, whose special function is to produce medusoid buds. See Hydroidea, and Athecata.

That stage in the development of the ovum in which the outer cells of the morula become more defined and form the blastoderm.

Same as Blastula.

Affected by blasts; gusty.

To utter inconsiderately.

Blatant quality.

Bellowing, as a calf; bawling; brawling; clamoring; disagreeably clamorous; sounding loudly and harshly.

In a blatant manner.

bashful; timid; sheepish; -- chiefly Scottish.

Voluble, foolish, or nonsensical talk; -- often in the pl.

A blustering, talkative fellow.

To prate; to babble; to rail; to make a senseless noise; to patter.

Blattering.

One who blatters; a babbler; a noisy, blustering boaster.

Senseless babble or boasting.

A senseless babbler or boaster.

The blue buck. See Blue buck, under Blue.

A fish. See Bleak, n.

To make public far and wide; to make known; to render conspicuous.

Burning with a blaze; as, a blazing fire; blazing torches.

any of various North American plants of the genus Liatris having racemes or panicles of small discoid flower heads.

To shine; to be conspicuous.

One who gives publicity, proclaims, or blazons; esp., one who blazons coats of arms; a herald.

The act of blazoning; blazoning; emblazonment.

Same as Blazon, 3.

The part of a tree which lies immediately under the bark; the alburnum or sapwood.

See Blaeberry.

To grow white or lose color; to whiten.

Whitened; make white.

One who whitens, or whose occupation is to whiten, by bleaching.

A place or an establishment where bleaching is done.

The act or process of whitening, by removing color or stains; esp. the process of whitening fabrics by chemical agents.

A small European river fish (Leuciscus alburnus), of the family Cyprinid/; the blay.

Bleak.

To make somewhat sore or watery, as the eyes; to dim, or blur, as the sight. Figuratively: To obscure (mental or moral perception); to blind; to hoodwink.

Having sore eyes; having the eyes dim with rheum; dim-sighted.

Dimmed, as by a watery humor; affected with rheum.

A disease of the eyelids, consisting in chronic inflammation of the margins, with a gummy secretion of sebaceous matter.

The state of being blear-eyed.

Somewhat blear.

having eyes sore or unfocused, due to weariness or excessive drinking; same as blear-eyed{1}.

A plaintive cry of, or like that of, a sheep.

One who bleats; a sheep.

The cry of, or as of, a sheep.

A large vesicle or bulla, usually containing a serous fluid; a blister; a bubble, as in water, glass, etc.

marred by small bubbles or small particles of foreign material; -- of glass or quartzite.

Containing blebs, or characterized by blebs; as, blebby glass.

imp. p. p. of Bleed.

Complexion; color; hue; likeness; form.

To let blood from; to take or draw blood from, as by opening a vein.

One who, or that which, draws blood. One in whom slight wounds give rise to profuse or uncontrollable bleeding.

A running or issuing of blood, as from the nose or a wound; a hemorrhage; the operation of letting blood, as in surgery; a drawing or running of sap from a tree or plant.

to to obscure or replace (an offensive word or phrase) by substituting a beeping sound while broadcasting.

same as bleep, v. t..

damned.

To blacken; also, to defile.

Any mark of deformity or injury, whether physical or moral; anything that diminishes beauty, or renders imperfect that which is otherwise well formed; that which impairs reputation.

Without blemish; spotless.

The state of being blemished; blemish; disgrace; damage; impairment.

To grow or make pale.

One who, or that which, scares another; specifically, a person stationed to prevent the escape of the deer, at a hunt. See Blancher.

To make blind, literally or figuratively; to dazzle; to deceive.

A mineral, called also sphalerite, and by miners mock lead, false galena, and black-jack. It is a zinc sulphide, but often contains some iron. Its color is usually yellow, brown, or black, and its luster resinous. A general term for some minerals, chiefly metallic sulphides which have a somewhat brilliant but nonmetallic luster.

combined or mixed together so that the constituent parts are indistinguishable. Antonym of unblended.

One who, or that which, blends; an instrument, as a brush, used in blending. an electrical device with a rapidly rotating spindle to which a specially designed container can be attached, so that the contents of the container are agitated by rotating blades at adjustable speeds, permitting various degrees of homogenization of the contents.

The act of mingling.

Pertaining to, consisting of, or containing, blende.

A distemper incident to cattle, in which their livers are affected.

To blink; to shine; to look.

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, the blennies.

Generating mucus.

An inordinate secretion and discharge of mucus. Gonorrhea.

A marine fish of the genus Blennius or family Blenniid/; -- so called from its coating of mucus. The species are numerous.

Blinded. Also (Chaucer), 3d sing. pres. Blindeth.

Inflammation of the eyelids.

A South African antelope (Alcelaphus albifrons), having a large white spot on the forehead.

To make or pronounce holy; to consecrate

Hallowed; consecrated; worthy of blessing or adoration; heavenly; holy.

Happily; fortunately; joyfully.