Blotchy (a.) Having blotches.
Bloted (imp. & p. p.) of Blote
Bloting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Blote
Blote (v. t.) To cure, as herrings, by salting and smoking them; to bloat.
Blotless (a.) Without blot.
Blotter (n.) One who, or that which, blots; esp. a device for absorbing superfluous ink.
Blotter (n.) A wastebook, in which entries of transactions are made as they take place.
Blottesque (a.) Characterized by blots or heavy touches; coarsely depicted; wanting in delineation.
Blotting paper () A kind of thick, bibulous, unsized paper, used to absorb superfluous ink from freshly written manuscript, and thus prevent blots.
Blouse (n.) A light, loose over-garment, like a smock frock, worn especially by workingmen in France; also, a loose coat of any material, as the undress uniform coat of the United States army.
Blew (imp.) of Blow
Blown (p. p.) of Blow
Blowing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Blow
Blow (v. i.) To flower; to blossom; to bloom.
Blow (v. t.) To cause to blossom; to put forth (blossoms or flowers).
Blow (n.) A blossom; a flower; also, a state of blossoming; a mass of blossoms.
Blow (n.) A forcible stroke with the hand, fist, or some instrument, as a rod, a club, an ax, or a sword.
Blow (n.) A sudden or forcible act or effort; an assault.
Blow (n.) The infliction of evil; a sudden calamity; something which produces mental, physical, or financial suffering or loss (esp. when sudden); a buffet.
Blew (imp.) of Blow
Blown (p. p.) of Blow
Blowing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Blow
Blow (v. i.) To produce a current of air; to move, as air, esp. to move rapidly or with power; as, the wind blows.
Blow (v. i.) To send forth a forcible current of air, as from the mouth or from a pair of bellows.
Blow (v. i.) To breathe hard or quick; to pant; to puff.
Blow (v. i.) To sound on being blown into, as a trumpet.
Blow (v. i.) To spout water, etc., from the blowholes, as a whale.
Blow (v. i.) To be carried or moved by the wind; as, the dust blows in from the street.
Blow (v. i.) To talk loudly; to boast; to storm.
Blow (v. t.) To force a current of air upon with the mouth, or by other means; as, to blow the fire.
Blow (v. t.) To drive by a current air; to impel; as, the tempest blew the ship ashore.
Blow (v. t.) To cause air to pass through by the action of the mouth, or otherwise; to cause to sound, as a wind instrument; as, to blow a trumpet; to blow an organ.
Blow (v. t.) To clear of contents by forcing air through; as, to blow an egg; to blow one's nose.
Blow (v. t.) To burst, shatter, or destroy by an explosion; -- usually with up, down, open, or similar adverb; as, to blow up a building.
Blow (v. t.) To spread by report; to publish; to disclose.
Blow (v. t.) To form by inflation; to swell by injecting air; as, to blow bubbles; to blow glass.
Blow (v. t.) To inflate, as with pride; to puff up.
Blow (v. t.) To put out of breath; to cause to blow from fatigue; as, to blow a horse.
Blow (v. t.) To deposit eggs or larvae upon, or in (meat, etc.).
Blow (n.) A blowing, esp., a violent blowing of the wind; a gale; as, a heavy blow came on, and the ship put back to port.
Blow (n.) The act of forcing air from the mouth, or through or from some instrument; as, to give a hard blow on a whistle or horn; to give the fire a blow with the bellows.
Blow (n.) The spouting of a whale.
Blow (n.) A single heat or operation of the Bessemer converter.
Blow (n.) An egg, or a larva, deposited by a fly on or in flesh, or the act of depositing it.
Blowball (n.) The downy seed head of a dandelion, which children delight to blow away.
Blowen (n.) Alt. of Blowess
Blowess (n.) A prostitute; a courtesan; a strumpet.
Blower (n.) One who, or that which, blows.
Blower (n.) A device for producing a current of air; as: (a) A metal plate temporarily placed before the upper part of a grate or open fire. (b) A machine for producing an artificial blast or current of air by pressure, as for increasing the draft of a furnace, ventilating a building or shaft, cleansing gram, etc.
Blower (n.) A blowing out or excessive discharge of gas from a hole or fissure in a mine.
Blower (n.) The whale; -- so called by seamen, from the circumstance of its spouting up a column of water.
Blower (n.) A small fish of the Atlantic coast (Tetrodon turgidus); the puffer.
Blower (n.) A braggart, or loud talker.
Blowfly (n.) Any species of fly of the genus Musca that deposits its eggs or young larvae (called flyblows and maggots) upon meat or other animal products.
Blowgun (n.) A tube, as of cane or reed, sometimes twelve feet long, through which an arrow or other projectile may be impelled by the force of the breath. It is a weapon much used by certain Indians of America and the West Indies; -- called also blowpipe, and blowtube. See Sumpitan.
Blowhole (n.) A cavern in a cliff, at the water level, opening to the air at its farther extremity, so that the waters rush in with each surge and rise in a lofty jet from the extremity.
Blowhole (n.) A nostril or spiracle in the top of the head of a whale or other cetacean.
Blowhole (n.) A hole in the ice to which whales, seals, etc., come to breathe.
Blowhole (n.) An air hole in a casting.
Blown (p. p. & a.) Swollen; inflated; distended; puffed up, as cattle when gorged with green food which develops gas.
Blown (p. p. & a.) Stale; worthless.
Blown (p. p. & a.) Out of breath; tired; exhausted.
Blown (p. p. & a.) Covered with the eggs and larvae of flies; fly blown.
Blown (p. p. & a.) Opened; in blossom or having blossomed, as a flower.
Blow-off (n.) A blowing off steam, water, etc.;
Blow-off (adj.) as, a blow-off cock or pipe.
Blow-off (adj.) An outburst of temper or excitement.
Blow-out (n.) The cleaning of the flues of a boiler from scale, etc., by a blast of steam.
Blowpipe (n.) A tube for directing a jet of air into a fire or into the flame of a lamp or candle, so as to concentrate the heat on some object.
Blowpipe (n.) A blowgun; a blowtube.
Blowpoint (n.) A child's game.
Blowse (n.) See Blowze.
Blowth (n.) A blossoming; a bloom.
Blowtube (n.) A blowgun.
Blowtube (n.) A similar instrument, commonly of tin, used by boys for discharging paper wads and other light missiles.
Blowtube (n.) A long wrought iron tube, on the end of which the workman gathers a quantity of "metal" (melted glass), and through which he blows to expand or shape it; -- called also blowing tube, and blowpipe.
Blow valve () See Snifting valve.
Blowy (a.) Windy; as, blowy weather; a blowy upland.
Blowze (n.) A ruddy, fat-faced woman; a wench.
Blowzed (a.) Having high color from exposure to the weather; ruddy-faced; blowzy; disordered.
Blowzy (a.) Coarse and ruddy-faced; fat and ruddy; high colored; frowzy.
Blub (v. t. & i.) To swell; to puff out, as with weeping.
Blubber (n.) A bubble.
Blubber (n.) The fat of whales and other large sea animals from which oil is obtained. It lies immediately under the skin and over the muscular flesh.
Blubber (n.) A large sea nettle or medusa.
Blubbered (imp. & p. p.) of Blubber
Blubbering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Blubber
Blubber (v. i.) To weep noisily, or so as to disfigure the face; to cry in a childish manner.
Blubber (v. t.) To swell or disfigure (the face) with weeping; to wet with tears.
Blubber (v. t.) To give vent to (tears) or utter (broken words or cries); -- with forth or out.
Blubbered (p. p. & a.) Swollen; turgid; as, a blubbered lip.
Blubbering (n.) The act of weeping noisily.
Blubbery (a.) Swollen; protuberant.
Blubbery (a.) Like blubber; gelatinous and quivering; as, a blubbery mass.
Blucher (n.) A kind of half boot, named from the Prussian general Blucher.
Bludgeon (n.) A short stick, with one end loaded, or thicker and heavier that the other, used as an offensive weapon.
Blue (superl.) Having the color of the clear sky, or a hue resembling it, whether lighter or darker; as, the deep, blue sea; as blue as a sapphire; blue violets.
Blue (superl.) Pale, without redness or glare, -- said of a flame; hence, of the color of burning brimstone, betokening the presence of ghosts or devils; as, the candle burns blue; the air was blue with oaths.
Blue (superl.) Low in spirits; melancholy; as, to feel blue.
Blue (superl.) Suited to produce low spirits; gloomy in prospect; as, thongs looked blue.