Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter B - Page 52

Blast (v. i.) To blow; to blow on a trumpet.

Blasted (a.) Blighted; withered.

Blasted (a.) Confounded; accursed; detestable.

Blasted (a.) Rent open by an explosive.

Blastemata (pl. ) of Blastema

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

Blastemal (a.) Relating to the blastema; rudimentary.

Blastematic (a.) Connected with, or proceeding from, the blastema; blastemal.

Blaster (n.) One who, or that which, blasts or destroys.

Blastide (n.) A small, clear space in the segments of the ovum, the precursor of the nucleus.

Blasting (n.) A blast; destruction by a blast, or by some pernicious cause.

Blasting (n.) The act or process of one who, or that which, blasts; the business of one who blasts.

Blastment (n.) A sudden stroke or injury produced by some destructive cause.

Blastocarpous (a.) Germinating inside the pericarp, as the mangrove.

Blastocoele (n.) The cavity of the blastosphere, or segmentation cavity.

Blastocyst (n.) The germinal vesicle.

Blastoderm (n.) The germinal membrane in an ovum, from which the embryo is developed.

Blastodermatic (a.) Alt. of Blastodermic

Blastodermic (a.) Of or pertaining to the blastoderm.

Blastogenesis (n.) Multiplication or increase by gemmation or budding.

Blastoid (n.) One of the Blastoidea.

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

Blastomere (n.) One of the segments first formed by the division of the ovum.

Blastophoral (a.) Alt. of Blastophoric

Blastophoric (a.) Relating to the blastophore.

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

Blastopore (n.) The pore or opening leading into the cavity of invagination, or archenteron.

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

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

Blast pipe () The exhaust pipe of a steam engine, or any pipe delivering steam or air, when so constructed as to cause a blast.

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

Blastule (n.) Same as Blastula.

Blasty (a.) Affected by blasts; gusty.

Blasty (a.) Causing blast or injury.

Blat (v. i.) To cry, as a calf or sheep; to bleat; to make a senseless noise; to talk inconsiderately.

Blat (v. t.) To utter inconsiderately.

Blatancy (n.) Blatant quality.

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

Blatantly (adv.) In a blatant manner.

Blatherskite (n.) A blustering, talkative fellow.

Blattered (imp. & p. p.) of Blatter

Blatter (v. i.) To prate; to babble; to rail; to make a senseless noise; to patter.

Blatteration (n.) Blattering.

Blatterer (n.) One who blatters; a babbler; a noisy, blustering boaster.

Blattering (n.) Senseless babble or boasting.

Blatteroon (n.) A senseless babbler or boaster.

Blaubok (n.) The blue buck. See Blue buck, under Blue.

Blay (a.) A fish. See Bleak, n.

Blaze (n.) A stream of gas or vapor emitting light and heat in the process of combustion; a bright flame.

Blaze (n.) Intense, direct light accompanied with heat; as, to seek shelter from the blaze of the sun.

Blaze (n.) A bursting out, or active display of any quality; an outburst; a brilliant display.

Blaze (n.) A white spot on the forehead of a horse.

Blaze (n.) A spot made on trees by chipping off a piece of the bark, usually as a surveyor's mark.

Blazed (imp. & p. p.) of Blaze

Blazing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Blaze

Blaze (v. i.) To shine with flame; to glow with flame; as, the fire blazes.

Blaze (v. i.) To send forth or reflect glowing or brilliant light; to show a blaze.

Blaze (v. i.) To be resplendent.

Blaze (v. t.) To mark (a tree) by chipping off a piece of the bark.

Blaze (v. t.) To designate by blazing; to mark out, as by blazed trees; as, to blaze a line or path.

Blaze (v. i.) To make public far and wide; to make known; to render conspicuous.

Blaze (v. i.) To blazon.

Blazer (n.) One who spreads reports or blazes matters abroad.

Blazing (a.) Burning with a blaze; as, a blazing fire; blazing torches.

Blazon (n.) A shield.

Blazon (n.) An heraldic shield; a coat of arms, or a bearing on a coat of arms; armorial bearings.

Blazon (n.) The art or act of describing or depicting heraldic bearings in the proper language or manner.

Blazon (n.) Ostentatious display, either by words or other means; publication; show; description; record.

Blazoned (imp. & p. p.) of Blazon

Blazoning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Blazon

Blazon (v. t.) To depict in colors; to display; to exhibit conspicuously; to publish or make public far and wide.

Blazon (v. t.) To deck; to embellish; to adorn.

Blazon (v. t.) To describe in proper terms (the figures of heraldic devices); also, to delineate (armorial bearings); to emblazon.

Blazon (v. i.) To shine; to be conspicuous.

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

Blazonment (n.) The act of blazoning; blazoning; emblazonment.

Blazonry (n.) Same as Blazon, 3.

Blazonry (n.) A coat of arms; an armorial bearing or bearings.

Blazonry (n.) Artistic representation or display.

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

Bleaberry (n.) See Blaeberry.

Bleached (imp. & p. p.) of Bleach

Bleaching (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bleach

Bleach (a.) To make white, or whiter; to remove the color, or stains, from; to blanch; to whiten.

Bleach (v. i.) To grow white or lose color; to whiten.

Bleached (a.) Whitened; make white.

Bleacher (n.) One who whitens, or whose occupation is to whiten, by bleaching.

Bleacheries (pl. ) of Bleachery

Bleachery (n.) A place or an establishment where bleaching is done.

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

Bleak (a.) Without color; pale; pallid.

Bleak (a.) Desolate and exposed; swept by cold winds.

Bleak (a.) Cold and cutting; cheerless; as, a bleak blast.

Bleak (a.) A small European river fish (Leuciscus alburnus), of the family Cyprinidae; the blay.

Bleaky (a.) Bleak.

Blear (v.) Dim or sore with water or rheum; -- said of the eyes.

Blear (v.) Causing or caused by dimness of sight; dim.

Bleared (imp. & p. p.) of Blear

Blearing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Blear

Blear (v. t.) 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.

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