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Blasty

Affected by blasts; gusty.

Blat

To utter inconsiderately.

Blatant

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

blate

bashful; timid; sheepish; -- chiefly Scottish.

Blather

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

Blatter

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

Blatterer

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

Blaubok

The blue buck. See Blue buck, under Blue.

Blay

A fish. See Bleak, n.

Blaze

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

Blazer

Anything that blazes or glows, as with heat or flame.

Blazing

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

blazing-star

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

Blazon

To shine; to be conspicuous.

Blazoner

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

Blazonment

The act of blazoning; blazoning; emblazonment.

Blea

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

Bleach

To grow white or lose color; to whiten.

Bleacher

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

Bleachery

A place or an establishment where bleaching is done.

Bleaching

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

Bleak

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

Blear

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.

Blear-eyed

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

Bleared

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

Bleareye

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

bleary-eyed

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

Bleat

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

Bleb

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

blebbed

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

Blebby

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

Bled

imp. p. p. of Bleed.

Blee

Complexion; color; hue; likeness; form.

Bleed

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

Bleeder

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

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.

bleep

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

Blemish

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.

Blemishment

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

Blencher

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

Blend

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

Blende

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.

blended

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

Blender

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.

Blendous

Pertaining to, consisting of, or containing, blende.

Blendwater

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

Blenk

To blink; to shine; to look.

Blennorrhea

An inordinate secretion and discharge of mucus. Gonorrhea.

Blenny

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

Blent

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

Blesbok

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

Bless

To make or pronounce holy; to consecrate

Blessed

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

Blessedness

The state of being blessed; happiness; felicity; bliss; heavenly joys; the favor of God.

Blesser

One who blesses; one who bestows or invokes a blessing.

Blet

To decay internally when overripe; -- said of fruit.

Bletonism

The supposed faculty of perceiving subterraneous springs and currents by sensation; -- so called from one Bleton, of France.

Bletting

A form of decay seen in fleshy, overripe fruit.

blewit

an edible agaric (Tricholoma personatum) that is pale lilac when young.

Bleyme

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

Blighia

small genus of West African evergreen trees and shrubs bearing fleshy capsular three-seeded fruits edible when neither unripe nor overripe.

Blight

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.

Blimp

any elderly pompous reactionary.

blimpish

pompously ultraconservative and nationalistic.

blin

a thin buckwheat pancake made with yeast and usually filled with sour cream and folded over. See also blini.

Blind

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.

Blindage

A cover or protection for an advanced trench or approach, formed of fascines and earth supported by a framework.

blinded

deprived of one's sight; rendered blind.

Blinder

One who, or that which, blinds.

Blindfish

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.

Blindfold

Having the eyes covered; blinded; having the mental eye darkened. Hence: Heedless; reckless; as, blindfold zeal; blindfold fury.

blindfold

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.

blindfolded

having a blindfold placed over the eyes; -- done to prevent the wearer from seeing.

Blinding

A thin coating of sand and fine gravel over a newly paved road. See Blind, v. t., 4.

Blindly

Without sight, discernment, or understanding; without thought, investigation, knowledge, or purpose of one's own.

Blindness

State or condition of being blind, literally or figuratively.

blindside

to attack a person from his blind side; metaphorically, to give a person an unpleasant suprise.

Blindstory

The triforium as opposed to the clearstory.

Blindworm

A small, burrowing, snakelike, limbless lizard (Anguis fragilis), with minute eyes, popularly believed to be blind; the slowworm; -- formerly a name for the adder.

blini

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.

Blink

A glimpse or glance.

Blinkard

One who blinks with, or as with, weak eyes.

Blinker

One who, or that which, blinks.

blinks

a typ of small Indian lettuce (Montia lamprosperma) of northern regions.

blintze blintz

a thin wheat pancake folded around a filling (such as cheese or fruit) and sauteed, fried, or baked.

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