Blessed thistle () See under Thistle.
Blesser (n.) One who blesses; one who bestows or invokes a blessing.
Blessing (v. t.) The act of one who blesses.
Blessing (v. t.) A declaration of divine favor, or an invocation imploring divine favor on some or something; a benediction; a wish of happiness pronounces.
Blessing (v. t.) A means of happiness; that which promotes prosperity and welfare; a beneficent gift.
Blessing (v. t.) A gift.
Blessing (v. t.) Grateful praise or worship.
Blest (a.) Blessed.
Blet (n.) A form of decay in fruit which is overripe.
Bletonism (n.) The supposed faculty of perceiving subterraneous springs and currents by sensation; -- so called from one Bleton, of France.
Bletting (n.) A form of decay seen in fleshy, overripe fruit.
Blew () imp. of Blow.
Bleyme (n.) An inflammation in the foot of a horse, between the sole and the bone.
Bleynte () imp. of Blench.
Blickey (n.) A tin dinner pail.
Blighted (imp. & p. p.) of Blight
Blighting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Blight
Blight (v. t.) To affect with blight; to blast; to prevent the growth and fertility of.
Blight (v. t.) Hence: To destroy the happiness of; to ruin; to mar essentially; to frustrate; as, to blight one's prospects.
Blight (v. i.) To be affected by blight; to blast; as, this vine never blights.
Blight (n.) 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.
Blight (n.) The act of blighting, or the state of being blighted; a withering or mildewing, or a stoppage of growth in the whole or a part of a plant, etc.
Blight (n.) That which frustrates one's plans or withers one's hopes; that which impairs or destroys.
Blight (n.) A downy species of aphis, or plant louse, destructive to fruit trees, infesting both the roots and branches; -- also applied to several other injurious insects.
Blight (n.) A rashlike eruption on the human skin.
Blighting (a.) Causing blight.
Blightingly (adv.) So as to cause blight.
Blimbi (n.) Alt. of Blimbing
Blimbing (n.) See Bilimbi, etc.
Blin (v. t. & i.) To stop; to cease; to desist.
Blin (n.) Cessation; end.
Blind (a.) Destitute of the sense of seeing, either by natural defect or by deprivation; without sight.
Blind (a.) Not having the faculty of discernment; destitute of intellectual light; unable or unwilling to understand or judge; as, authors are blind to their own defects.
Blind (a.) Undiscerning; undiscriminating; inconsiderate.
Blind (a.) Having such a state or condition as a thing would have to a person who is blind; not well marked or easily discernible; hidden; unseen; concealed; as, a blind path; a blind ditch.
Blind (a.) Involved; intricate; not easily followed or traced.
Blind (a.) Having no openings for light or passage; as, a blind wall; open only at one end; as, a blind alley; a blind gut.
Blind (a.) Unintelligible, or not easily intelligible; as, a blind passage in a book; illegible; as, blind writing.
Blind (a.) Abortive; failing to produce flowers or fruit; as, blind buds; blind flowers.
Blinded (imp. & p. p.) of Blind
Blinding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Blind
Blind (v. t.) To make blind; to deprive of sight or discernment.
Blind (v. t.) To deprive partially of vision; to make vision difficult for and painful to; to dazzle.
Blind (v. t.) To darken; to obscure to the eye or understanding; to conceal; to deceive.
Blind (v. t.) To cover with a thin coating of sand and fine gravel; as a road newly paved, in order that the joints between the stones may be filled.
Blind (n.) 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.
Blind (n.) Something to mislead the eye or the understanding, or to conceal some covert deed or design; a subterfuge.
Blind (n.) A blindage. See Blindage.
Blind (n.) A halting place.
Blind (n.) Alt. of Blinde
Blinde (n.) See Blende.
Blindage (n.) A cover or protection for an advanced trench or approach, formed of fascines and earth supported by a framework.
Blinder (n.) One who, or that which, blinds.
Blinder (n.) One of the leather screens on a bridle, to hinder a horse from seeing objects at the side; a blinker.
Blindfish (n.) A small fish (Amblyopsis spelaeus) destitute of eyes, found in the waters of the Mammoth Cave, in Kentucky. Related fishes from other caves take the same name.
Blindfolded (imp. & p. p.) of Blindfold
Blindfolding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Blindfold
Blindfold (v. t.) To cover the eyes of, as with a bandage; to hinder from seeing.
Blindfold (a.) Having the eyes covered; blinded; having the mental eye darkened. Hence: Heedless; reckless; as, blindfold zeal; blindfold fury.
Blinding (a.) Making blind or as if blind; depriving of sight or of understanding; obscuring; as, blinding tears; blinding snow.
Blinding (n.) A thin coating of sand and fine gravel over a newly paved road. See Blind, v. t., 4.
Blindly (adv.) Without sight, discernment, or understanding; without thought, investigation, knowledge, or purpose of one's own.
Blindman's buff () A play in which one person is blindfolded, and tries to catch some one of the company and tell who it is.
Blindman's holiday () The time between daylight and candle light.
Blindness (n.) State or condition of being blind, literally or figuratively.
Blindstory (n.) The triforium as opposed to the clearstory.
Blindworm (n.) A small, burrowing, snakelike, limbless lizard (Anguis fragilis), with minute eyes, popularly believed to be blind; the slowworm; -- formerly a name for the adder.
Blinked (imp. & p. p.) of Blink
Blinking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Blink
Blink (v. i.) To wink; to twinkle with, or as with, the eye.
Blink (v. i.) To see with the eyes half shut, or indistinctly and with frequent winking, as a person with weak eyes.
Blink (v. i.) To shine, esp. with intermittent light; to twinkle; to flicker; to glimmer, as a lamp.
Blink (v. i.) To turn slightly sour, as beer, mild, etc.
Blink (v. t.) To shut out of sight; to avoid, or purposely evade; to shirk; as, to blink the question.
Blink (v. t.) To trick; to deceive.
Blink (v. i.) A glimpse or glance.
Blink (v. i.) Gleam; glimmer; sparkle.
Blink (v. i.) The dazzling whiteness about the horizon caused by the reflection of light from fields of ice at sea; ice blink.
Blink (pl.) Boughs cast where deer are to pass, to turn or check them.
Blinkard (n.) One who blinks with, or as with, weak eyes.
Blinkard (n.) That which twinkles or glances, as a dim star, which appears and disappears.
Blink beer () Beer kept unbroached until it is sharp.
Blinker (n.) One who, or that which, blinks.
Blinker (n.) A blinder for horses; a flap of leather on a horse's bridle to prevent him from seeing objects as his side hence, whatever obstructs sight or discernment.
Blinker (pl.) A kind of goggles, used to protect the eyes form glare, etc.
Blink-eyed (a.) Habitually winking.
Blirt (n.) A gust of wind and rain.
Blisses (pl. ) of Bliss
Bliss (n.) Orig., blithesomeness; gladness; now, the highest degree of happiness; blessedness; exalted felicity; heavenly joy.
Blissful (a.) Full of, characterized by, or causing, joy and felicity; happy in the highest degree.
Blissless (a.) Destitute of bliss.
Blissom (v. i.) To be lustful; to be lascivious.
Blissom (a.) Lascivious; also, in heat; -- said of ewes.
Blister (n.) A vesicle of the skin, containing watery matter or serum, whether occasioned by a burn or other injury, or by a vesicatory; a collection of serous fluid causing a bladderlike elevation of the cuticle.
Blister (n.) Any elevation made by the separation of the film or skin, as on plants; or by the swelling of the substance at the surface, as on steel.
Blister (n.) A vesicatory; a plaster of Spanish flies, or other matter, applied to raise a blister.
Blistered (imp. & p. p.) of Blister
Blistering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Blister
Blister (v. i.) To be affected with a blister or blisters; to have a blister form on.
Blister (v. t.) To raise a blister or blisters upon.