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.

Of a fair color; light-colored; as, blond hair; a blond complexion.

The state of being blond.

Gray; bluish gray.

To bleed.

Having the hair matted with clotted blood.

having any of numerous bright or strong colors reminiscent of the color of cherries or tomatoes or rubies or blood.

related by blood, i.e. by a common genetic heritage.

Bloodshot.

a European deciduous shrub (Cornus sanguinea) turning red in autumn having dull white flowers.

Indiscriminate slaughter; the killing of multiple persons.

An Australian honeysucker (Myzomela sanguineolata); -- so called from the bright red color of the male bird.

causing sudden intense fear due to an apprehension of imminent bodily harm, to oneself or others.

Having pure blood, or a large admixture or pure blood; of approved breed; of the best stock.

A genus of bulbous plants, natives of Southern Africa, named H/manthus, of the Amaryllis family. The juice of H/manthus toxicarius is used by the Hottentots to poison their arrows.

Guilty of murder or bloodshed.

A breed of large and powerful dogs, with long, smooth, and pendulous ears, and remarkable for acuteness of smell. It is employed to recover game or prey which has escaped wounded from a hunter, and for tracking criminals. Formerly it was used for pursuing runaway slaves. Other varieties of dog are often used for the same purpose and go by the same name. The Cuban bloodhound is said to be a variety of the mastiff.

Covered with blood.

In a bloody manner; cruelly; with a disposition to shed blood.

The state of being bloody.

Destitute of blood, or apparently so; as, bloodless cheeks; lifeless; dead.

bleed; to let blood.

One who, or that which, lets blood; a phlebotomist.

The act or process of letting blood or bleeding, as by opening a vein or artery, or by cupping or leeches; -- esp. applied to venesection.

a desire for bloodshed.

a motor vehicle equipped to collect blood donations.

A plant (Sanguinaria Canadensis), with a red root and red sap, and bearing a pretty, white flower in early spring; -- called also puccoon, redroot, bloodwort, tetterwort, turmeric, and Indian paint. It has acrid emetic properties, and the rootstock is used as a stimulant expectorant. See Sanguinaria.

The shedding or spilling of blood; slaughter; the act of shedding human blood, or taking life, as in war, riot, or murder.

One who sheds blood; a manslayer; a murderer.

Bloodshed.

Red and inflamed; suffused with blood, or having the vessels turgid with blood, as when the conjunctiva is inflamed or irritated.

stained with blood; as, a bloodstained shirt; a bloodstained carpet; a bloodstained sidewalk.

A piece of hard wood loaded at one end with lead, and used to strike the fleam into the vein.

thoroughbred horses (collectively).

A green siliceous stone sprinkled with red jasper, as if with blood; hence the name; -- called also heliotrope. Hematite, an ore of iron yielding a blood red powder or /streak./

Loss of sensation and motion from hemorrhage or congestion in the brain.

Any animal that sucks blood; esp., the leech (Hirudo medicinalis), and related species.

drawing blood from the body of another; as, a plague of bloodsucking insects.

Eager to shed blood; cruel; sanguinary; murderous; having a bloodlust.

The European bullfinch.

A fine or amercement paid as part of a settlement for the shedding of blood; also, a riot wherein blood was spilled.

A tree having the wood or the sap of the color of blood.

A plant, Rumex sanguineus, or bloody-veined dock. The name is applied also to bloodroot (Sanguinaria Canadensis), and to an extensive order of plants (H/modorace/), the roots of many species of which contain a red coloring matter useful in dyeing.

To stain with blood.

Having a cruel, ferocious disposition; bloodthirsty.

A terrible bugbear.

A mass of wrought iron from the Catalan forge or from the puddling furnace, deprived of its dross, and shaped usually in the form of an oblong block by shingling. A large bar of steel formed directly from an ingot by hammering or rolling, being a preliminary shape for further working.

See Bloomery.

A costume for women, consisting of a short dress, with loose trousers gathered round ankles, and (commonly) a broad-brimmed hat.

A furnace and forge in which wrought iron in the form of blooms is made directly from the ore, or (more rarely) from cast iron.

Opening in blossoms; flowering.

In a blooming manner.

A blooming condition.

Without bloom or flowers.

Full of bloom; flowery; flourishing with the vigor of youth; as, a bloomy spray.

Bloom; a blossoming.

The act of blowing; a roaring wind; a blast.

Blossomy.

To put forth blossoms or flowers; to bloom; to blow; to flower.

the process of budding and unfolding of blossoms.

Without blossoms.

Full of blossoms; flowery.

An exposure of a single man to be taken up. A single man left on a point, exposed to be taken up.

A blot or spot, as of color or of ink; especially a large or irregular spot. Also Fig.; as, a moral blotch.

Marked or covered with blotches.