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.

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.

same as blini.

a spot of light on a radar screen, showing the position of a reflecting surface, such as an airplane or ship.

A gust of wind and rain.

Orig., blithesomeness; gladness; now, the highest degree of happiness; blessedness; exalted felicity; heavenly joy.

Full of, characterized by, or causing, joy and felicity; happy in the highest degree.

Destitute of bliss.

Lascivious; also, in heat; -- said of ewes.

a genus comprising the chinch bugs. See chinch, 2.

To raise a blister or blisters upon.

harshly or corrosively critical in tone; -- of comments about people or their actions.

Full of blisters.

A genus of herbs (Blitum) with a fleshy calyx. Blitum capitatum is the strawberry blite.

Gay; merry; sprightly; joyous; glad; cheerful; as, a blithe spirit.

Gay; full of gayety; joyous.

In a blithe manner.

The state of being blithe.

same as blather.

talking incoherently; as, a blithering idiot.

Cheery; gay; merry.

a quick move by defensive players toward the passer on the offensive team, as soon as the ball is snapped; -- it is used when the defensive teams assumes that a pass will be attempted, and risks allowing substantial gains by the offensive team if other plays are in fact planned.

to fight a quick and surprising war.

Quickly; forthwith.

A gale of piercingly cold wind, usually accompanied with fine and blinding snow; a furious blast.

To dry (herrings) in smoke. See Blote.

Distended beyond the natural or usual size, as by the presence of water, serum, etc.; turgid; swollen; as, a bloated face. Also, puffed up with pride; pompous.

The state of being bloated.

The common herring, esp. when of large size, smoked, and half dried; -- called also bloat herring.

Something blunt and round; a small drop or lump of something viscid or thick; a drop; a bubble; a blister.

A bubble; blubber.

Having thick lips.

The roughest and cheapest sort of rubblework, in masonry.

To obstruct so as to prevent passage or progress; to prevent passage from, through, or into, by obstructing the way; -- used both of persons and things; -- often followed by up; as, to block up a road or harbor; to block an entrance.

To shut up, as a town or fortress, by investing it with troops or vessels or war for the purpose of preventing ingress or egress, or the introduction of supplies. See note under Blockade, n.

having access obstructed by emplacement of a barrier, or by threat of force.

One who blockades.

The act of blocking up; the state of being blocked up.

closed to traffic.

A stupid fellow; a dolt; a person deficient in understanding.

Stupid; dull.

That which characterizes a blockhead; stupidity.

An edifice or structure of heavy timbers or logs for military defense, having its sides loopholed for musketry, and often an upper story projecting over the lower, or so placed upon it as to have its sides make an angle wit the sides of the lower story, thus enabling the defenders to fire downward, and in all directions; -- formerly much used in America and Germany.

The act of obstructing, supporting, shaping, or stamping with a block or blocks.

Like a block; deficient in understanding; stupid; dull.

Like a block; stupid.

A hydrous sulphate of magnesium and sodium.

A shrub or small tree of southern Florida and the West Indies (Pisonia obtusata) with smooth oval leaves and a hard, 10-ribbed fruit. The rubiaceous shrub Chicocca racemosa, of the same region.

See Bloomery.

A person of very fair complexion, with light hair and light blue eyes.