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.
Anything that blazes or glows, as with heat or flame.
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.
The state of being blessed; happiness; felicity; bliss; heavenly joys; the favor of God.
One who blesses; one who bestows or invokes a blessing.
The act of one who blesses.
Blessed.
To decay internally when overripe; -- said of fruit.
The supposed faculty of perceiving subterraneous springs and currents by sensation; -- so called from one Bleton, of France.
A form of decay seen in fleshy, overripe fruit.
imp. of Blow.
an edible agaric (Tricholoma personatum) that is pale lilac when young.
same as blewit.
An inflammation in the foot of a horse, between the sole and the bone.
imp. of Blench.
A tin dinner pail.
small genus of West African evergreen trees and shrubs bearing fleshy capsular three-seeded fruits edible when neither unripe nor overripe.
Mildew; decay; anything nipping or blasting; -- applied as a general name to various injuries or diseases of plants, causing the whole or a part to wither, whether occasioned by insects, fungi, or atmospheric influences.
Causing blight.
So as to cause blight.
See Bilimbi, etc.
any elderly pompous reactionary.
pompously ultraconservative and nationalistic.
Cessation; end.
a thin buckwheat pancake made with yeast and usually filled with sour cream and folded over. See also blini.
Something to hinder sight or keep out light; a screen; a cover; esp. a hinged screen or shutter for a window; a blinder for a horse.
A cover or protection for an advanced trench or approach, formed of fascines and earth supported by a framework.
See Blende.
deprived of one's sight; rendered blind.
One who, or that which, blinds.
A small fish (Amblyopsis spel/us) destitute of eyes, found in the waters of the Mammoth Cave, in Kentucky. Related fishes from other caves take the same name.
Having the eyes covered; blinded; having the mental eye darkened. Hence: Heedless; reckless; as, blindfold zeal; blindfold fury.
a flexible object placed over the eyes to prevent seeing; usually a strip of cloth wrapped around the head so as to cover the eyes.
having a blindfold placed over the eyes; -- done to prevent the wearer from seeing.
A thin coating of sand and fine gravel over a newly paved road. See Blind, v. t., 4.
Without sight, discernment, or understanding; without thought, investigation, knowledge, or purpose of one's own.
State or condition of being blind, literally or figuratively.
to attack a person from his blind side; metaphorically, to give a person an unpleasant suprise.
The triforium as opposed to the clearstory.
A small, burrowing, snakelike, limbless lizard (Anguis fragilis), with minute eyes, popularly believed to be blind; the slowworm; -- formerly a name for the adder.
Russian pancakes of buckwheat flour and yeast, sometimes made from white flour; they are usually served folded over, with caviar and sour cream on the inside; -- properly, it is a plural word (from the Russian plural of blin) but in America, often used as singular; thus the common plural blinis.
A glimpse or glance.
Habitually winking.
One who blinks with, or as with, weak eyes.
One who, or that which, blinks.
a typ of small Indian lettuce (Montia lamprosperma) of northern regions.
a thin wheat pancake folded around a filling (such as cheese or fruit) and sauteed, fried, or baked.