Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter B - Page 50
Blackleg (n.) A notorious gambler. [Colloq.]
Blackleg (n.) A disease among calves and sheep, characterized by a settling of gelatinous matter in the legs, and sometimes in the neck. [Eng.]
Blackleg (n.) Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike [syn: scab, strikebreaker, blackleg, rat].
Blackleg (v.) Take the place of work of someone on strike [syn: fink, scab, rat, blackleg].
Black letter (n.) 【印】黑體字的；倒楣的 The old English or Gothic letter, in which the Early English manuscripts were written, and the first English books were printed. It was conspicuous for its blackness. See Type.
Black letter (n.) A heavy typeface in use from 15th to 18th centuries [syn: Gothic, black letter].
Black-letter (a.) Written or printed in black letter; as, a black-letter manuscript or book.
Black-letter (a.) Given to the study of books in black letter; that is, of old books; out of date.
Kemble, a black-letter man! -- J. Boaden.
Black-letter (a.) Of or pertaining to the days in the calendar not marked with red letters as saints' days ; -- compare red-letter.
Hence: Unlucky; inauspicious.
Black letter (n.) An early, ornate, bold style of type, typically resembling Gothic.
Blacklist (v. t.) To put in a black list as deserving of suspicion, censure, or punishment; esp. to put in a list of persons stigmatized as insolvent or untrustworthy, -- as tradesmen and employers do for mutual protection; as, to blacklist a workman who has been discharged. See Black list, under Black, a.
If you blacklist us, we will boycott you. -- John Swinton. Black lung.
Blacklist (n.) A list of people who are out of favor [syn: blacklist, black book, shitlist].
Blacklist (v.) Put on a blacklist so as to banish or cause to be boycotted; "many books were blacklisted by the Nazis".
Blackly (adv.) In a black manner; darkly, in color; gloomily; threateningly; atrociously. "Deeds so blackly grim and horrid." -- Feltham.
Blackmail (n.) 敲詐；勒索；敲詐勒索所得的錢財；（舊時蘇格蘭邊界上人們為免遭劫掠）付給盜匪的保護費 A certain rate of money, corn, cattle, or other thing, anciently paid, in the north of England and south of Scotland, to certain men who were allied to robbers, or moss troopers, to be by them protected from pillage. -- Sir W. Scott.
Blackmail (n.) Payment of money exacted by means of intimidation; also, extortion of money from a person by threats of public accusation, exposure, or censure.
Blackmail (n.) (Eng. Law) Black rent, or rent paid in corn, flesh, or the lowest coin, a opposed to "white rent", which paid in silver.
{To levy blackmail}, To extort money by threats, as of injury to one's reputation.
Blackmailed (imp. & p. p.) of Blackmail
Blackmailing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Blackmail
Blackmail (v. t.) 敲詐；勒索；脅迫 [（+into）] To extort money from by exciting fears of injury other than bodily harm, as injury to reputation, distress of mind, etc.; as, to blackmail a merchant by threatening to expose an alleged fraud. [U. S.]
Blackmail (n.) Extortion of money by threats to divulge discrediting information.
Blackmail (v.) Exert pressure on someone through threats [syn: {blackmail}, {blackjack}, {pressure}].
Blackmail (v.) Obtain through threats.
Blackmailer (n.) 敲詐者；勒索者 [C] One who extorts, or endeavors to extort, money, by black mailing.
Blackmailer (n.) A criminal who extorts money from someone by threatening to expose embarrassing information about them [syn: {blackmailer}, {extortioner}, {extortionist}]
Blackmailing (n.) The act or practice of extorting money by exciting fears of injury other than bodily harm, as injury to reputation.
Black Monday (n.) Easter Monday, so called from the severity of that day in 1360, which was so unusual that many of Edward III.'s soldiers, then before Paris, died from the cold. -- Stow.
Then it was not for nothing that my nose fell a bleeding on Black Monday last. -- Shak.
Black Monday (n.) The first Monday after the holidays; -- so called by English schoolboys. -- Halliwell.
Black monk () A Benedictine monk.
Compare: Benedictine
Benedictine (a.) 聖本篤修會的 Pertaining to the monks of St. Benedict, or St. Benet.
Benedictine (n.) (Eccl. Hist.) One of a famous order of monks, established by St. Benedict of Nursia in the sixth century. This order was introduced into the United States in 1846.
Note: The Benedictines wear black clothing, and are sometimes called Black Monks. The name Black Fr????rs which belongs to the Dominicans, is also sometimes applied to the Benedictines.
Benedictine (a.) Of or relating to Saint Benedict or his works
Benedictine (a.) Of or relating to the Benedictines
Benedictine (n.) A monk or nun belonging to the order founded by Saint Benedict.
Benedictine (n.) A French liqueur originally made by Benedictine monks.
Blackmoor (n.) See Blackamoor.
Black-mouthed (a.) Using foul or scurrilous language; slanderous.
Blackness (n.) [U] 黑；黑色；黑暗；邪惡；陰險；陰鬱；生氣 The quality or state of being black; black color; atrociousness or enormity in wickedness.
They're darker now than blackness. -- Donne.
Blackness (n.) The quality or state of the achromatic color of least lightness (bearing the least resemblance to white) [syn: {black}, {blackness}, {inkiness}] [ant: {white}, {whiteness}].
Blackness (n.) Total absence of light; "they fumbled around in total darkness"; "in the black of night" [syn: {total darkness}, {lightlessness}, {blackness}, {pitch blackness}, {black}].
Blackout (n.) 燈火管制；燈暗；熄燈；停電；暫時性眼前昏黑；突然發昏 A period when all lights must be turned out or covered to prevent them being seen by the enemy during an air raid.
‘People found it difficult to travel in the blackout.’
[As modifier] ‘She peered out through the blackout curtains.’
Blackout (n.) (Usually blackouts) (British) Dark curtains put up in windows to cover lights during an air raid.
Blackout (n.) A failure of an electrical power supply.
‘Due to a power blackout their hotel was in total darkness.’
Blackout (n.) A moment in the theatre when the lights on stage are suddenly dimmed.
Blackout (n.) A suppression of information, especially one imposed on the media by government.
‘The total information blackout on the series of meetings.’
Blackout (n.) A temporary loss of consciousness.
‘She was suffering from blackouts.’
Blackout (n.) A suspension of radio or tv broadcasting.
Blackout (n.) Any darkness resulting from the extinction of lights.
Blackout (n.) The failure of electric power for a general region sufficient to extinguish all normal lighting.
Syn: brownout, dimout.
Blackout (n.) A momentary loss of consciousness.
Blackout (n.) Partial or total loss of memory. he has a total blackout for events of the evening
Syn: amnesia, memory loss.
Blackout (n.) A period during which artificial lighting is forbidden, as in a city as a precaution against an air raid.
Blackout (n.) (Theater) the darkening of all stage lights, as at then end of a performance or between acts.
Blackout (n.) Suppression of information distribution; as, there was a blackout on news from the military for the first day of the Gulf War.
Blackout (n.) The prohibition of the broadcasting of a sports event, such as a boxing match or football game, sometimes confined to one particular area. It is usually done to encourage sales of tickets to the event.
Blackout (n.) A suspension of radio or tv broadcasting.
Blackout (n.) Darkness resulting from the extinction of lights (as in a city invisible to enemy aircraft) [syn: {blackout}, {brownout}, {dimout}].
Blackout (n.) The failure of electric power for a general region.
Blackout (n.) A momentary loss of consciousness.
Blackout (n.) Partial or total loss of memory; "he has a total blackout for events of the evening" [syn: {amnesia}, {memory loss}, {blackout}].
Blackpoll (n.) (Zool.) A warbler of the United States ({Dendroica striata).
Blackpoll (n.) North American warbler having a black-and-white head [syn: blackpoll, Dendroica striate].
Black pudding () A kind of sausage made of blood, suet, etc., thickened with meal.
And fat black puddings, -- proper food, For warriors that delight in blood. -- Hudibras.
Black pudding (n.) A black sausage containing pig's blood and other ingredients [syn: blood sausage, blood pudding, black pudding].
Compare: Rod
Rod (n.) [The same word as rood. See Rood.] A straight and slender stick; a wand; hence, any slender bar, as of wood or metal (applied to various purposes). Specifically:
Rod (n.) An instrument of punishment or correction; figuratively, chastisement.
He that spareth his rod hateth his son. -- Prov. xiii. 24.
Rod (n.) A kind of sceptor, or badge of office; hence, figuratively, power; authority; tyranny; oppression. "The rod, and bird of peace." -- Shak.
Rod (n.) A support for a fishing line; a fish pole. -- Gay.
Rod (n.) (Mach. & Structure) A member used in tension, as for sustaining a suspended weight, or in tension and compression, as for transmitting reciprocating motion, etc.; a connecting bar.
Rod (n.) An instrument for measuring.
Rod (n.) A measure of length containing sixteen and a half feet; -- called also perch, and pole.
Black rod. See in the Vocabulary.
Rods and cones (Anat.), The elongated cells or elements of the sensory layer of the retina, some of which are cylindrical, others somewhat conical.
Black Rod () The usher to the Chapter of the Garter, so called from the black rod which he carries. He is of the king's chamber, and also usher to the House of Lords. [Eng.]
Black Rod () An usher in the legislature of British colonies. -- Cowell.
Committed to the custody of the Black Rod. -- Macaulay.
Blackroot (n.) (Bot.) See Colicroot.
Compare: Colicroot
Colicroot (n.) A bitter American herb of the Bloodwort family, with the leaves all radical, and the small yellow or white flowers in a long spike ({Aletris farinosa and Aletris aurea). Called sometimes star grass, blackroot, blazing star, and unicorn root.
Blacks (n. pl.) The name of a kind of in used in copperplate printing, prepared from the charred husks of the grape, and residue of the wine press.
Blacks (n. pl.) Soot flying in the air. [Eng.]
Blacks (n. pl.) Black garments, etc. See Black, n., 4.
Blacksalter (n.) One who makes crude potash, or black salts.
Black salts () Crude potash. -- De Colange.
Blacksmith (n.) A smith who works in iron with a forge, and makes iron utensils, horseshoes, etc.
The blacksmith may forge what he pleases. -- Howell.
Blacksmith (n.) (Zool.) A fish of the Pacific coast ({Chromis punctipinnis, or Heliastes punctipinnis), of a blackish color. Black snake
Blacksmith (n.) A smith who forges and shapes iron with a hammer and anvil.
Black snake (n.) Alt. of Blacksnake
Blacksnake (n.) (Zool.) A snake of a black color, of which two species are common in the United States, the Bascanium constrictor, or racer, sometimes six feet long, and the Scotophis Alleghaniensis, seven or eight feet long.
Note: The name is also applied to various other black serpents, as Natrix atra of Jamaica.
Blackstrap (n.) A mixture of spirituous liquor (usually rum) and molasses.
No blackstrap to-night; switchel, or ginger pop. -- Judd.
Blackstrap (n.) Bad port wine; any common wine of the Mediterranean; -- so called by sailors.
Ruff, Ruffe (n.) (Zool.) A small freshwater European perch ({Acerina vulgaris); -- called also pope, blacktail, and stone perch, or striped perch.
Blacktail (n.) (Zool.) A fish; the ruff or pope.
Blacktail (n.) (Zool.) The black-tailed deer ({Cervus Columbianus or Cariacus Columbianus) of California and Oregon; also, the mule deer of the Rocky Mountains. See Mule deer.
Blacktail (n.) Mule deer of western Rocky Mountains [syn: black-tailed deer, blacktail deer, blacktail, Odocoileus hemionus columbianus].
Blackthorn (n.) (Bot.) A spreading thorny shrub or small tree (Prunus spinosa), with blackish bark, and bearing little black plums, which are called sloes; the sloe.
Blackthorn (n.) A species of Crat[ae]gus or hawthorn ({Crat[ae]gus tomentosa). Both are used for hedges.
Blackthorn (n.) A thorny Eurasian bush with plumlike fruits [syn: blackthorn, sloe, Prunus spinosa].
Blackthorn (n.) Erect and almost thornless American hawthorn with somewhat pear-shaped berries [syn: blackthorn, pear haw, pear hawthorn, Crataegus calpodendron, Crataegus tomentosa].
Vomit (n.) Matter that is vomited; esp., matter ejected from the stomach through the mouth.
Like vomit from his yawning entrails poured. -- Sandys.
Vomit (n.) (Med.) That which excites vomiting; an emetic.
He gives your Hollander a vomit. -- Shak.
Black vomit. (Med.) See in the Vocabulary.
Vomit nut, nux vomica.
Black vomit () (Med.) A copious vomiting of dark-colored matter; or the substance so discharged; -- one of the most fatal symptoms in yellow fever. Black wash
Black vomit (n.) Caused by a flavivirus transmitted by a mosquito [syn: yellow jack, yellow fever, black vomit].
Black wash (n.) Alt. of Blackwash
Blackwash (n.) (Med.) A lotion made by mixing calomel and lime water.
Blackwash (n.) A wash that blackens, as opposed to whitewash; hence, figuratively, calumny.
To remove as far as he can the modern layers of black wash, and let the man himself, fair or foul, be seen. -- C. Kingsley.
Blackwood (n.) A name given to several dark-colored timbers. The East Indian black wood is from the tree Dalbergia latifolia. -- Balfour.
Blackwood (n.) Very dark wood of any of several blackwood trees.
Blackwood (n.) Any of several hardwood trees yielding very dark-colored wood [syn: blackwood, blackwood tree].
Blackwood, NJ -- U.S. Census Designated Place in New Jersey
Population (2000): 4692
Housing Units (2000): 1840
Land area (2000): 1.240579 sq. miles (3.213084 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.011688 sq. miles (0.030271 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.252267 sq. miles (3.243355 sq. km)
FIPS code: 06040
Located within: New Jersey (NJ), FIPS 34
Location: 39.795981 N, 75.062304 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Blackwood, NJ
Blackwood
Blackwork (n.) Work wrought by blacksmiths; -- so called in distinction from that wrought by whitesmiths. -- Knight.
Bladder (n.) (pl. Bladders) [C] (Anat.) 【解】膀胱；水生植物的氣囊；脹大的果皮；囊狀物；可充氣的囊袋 A bag or sac in animals, which serves as the receptacle of some fluid; as, the urinary bladder; the gall bladder; -- applied especially to the urinary bladder, either within the animal, or when taken out and inflated with air.
Bladder (n.) Any vesicle or blister, especially if filled with air, or a thin, watery fluid.
Bladder (n.) (Bot.) A distended, membranaceous pericarp.
Bladder (n.) Anything inflated, empty, or unsound. "To swim with bladders of philosophy." -- Rochester.
Bladder nut, or Bladder tree (Bot.), A genus of plants ({Staphylea) with bladderlike seed pods.
Bladder+pod+(Bot.),+a+genus+of+low+herbs+({Vesicaria">Bladder pod (Bot.), A genus of low herbs ({Vesicaria) with inflated seed pods.
Bladdor+senna+(Bot.),+a+genus+of+shrubs+({Colutea">Bladdor senna (Bot.), A genus of shrubs ({Colutea), with membranaceous, inflated pods.
Bladder worm (Zool.), The larva of any species of tapeworm ({T[ae]nia), found in the flesh or other parts of animals. See Measle, Cysticercus.
Bladder wrack (Bot.), The common black rock weed of the seacoast ({Fucus nodosus and Fucus vesiculosus) -- called also bladder tangle. See Wrack.
Bladder (n.) A distensible membranous sac (usually containing liquid or gas) [syn: bladder, vesica].
Bladder (n.) A bag that fills with air.
Bladdered (imp. & p. p.) of Bladder.
Bladdering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bladder.
Bladder (v. t.) To swell out like a bladder with air; to inflate. [Obs.] -- G. Fletcher.
Bladder (v. t.) To put up in bladders; as, bladdered lard.
Bladder (n.) A distensible membranous sac (usually containing liquid or gas) [syn: {bladder}, {vesica}].
Bladder (n.) A bag that fills with air.
Bladderwort (n.) (Bot.) A genus ({Utricularia) of aquatic or marshy plants, which usually bear numerous vesicles in the divisions of the leaves. These serve as traps for minute animals. See Ascidium.
Bladderwort (n.) Any of numerous aquatic carnivorous plants of the genus-Utricularia some of whose leaves are modified as small urn- shaped bladders that trap minute aquatic animals .
Bladdery (a.) Having bladders; also, resembling a bladder.
Bladdery (a.) Resembling a bladder [syn: bladdery, bladderlike]
Blade (n.) Properly, the leaf, or flat part of the leaf, of any plant, especially of gramineous plants. The term is sometimes applied to the spire of grasses.
The crimson dulse . . . with its waving blade. -- Percival.
First the blade, then ear, after that the full corn in the ear. -- Mark iv. 28.
Blade (n.) The cutting part of an instrument; as, the blade of a knife or a sword.
Blade (n.) The broad part of an oar; also, one of the projecting arms of a screw propeller.
Blade (n.) The scapula or shoulder blade.
Blade (n.) pl. (Arch.) The principal rafters of a roof. -- Weale.
Blade (n.) pl. (Com.) The four large shell plates on the sides, and the five large ones of the middle, of the carapace of the sea turtle, which yield the best tortoise shell. -- De Colange.
Blade (n.) A sharp-witted, dashing, wild, or reckless, fellow; -- a word of somewhat indefinite meaning.
He saw a turnkey in a trice Fetter a troublesome blade. -- Coleridge.
Blade (n.) The flat part of the tongue immediately behind the tip, or point.
"Lower blade" implies, of course, the lower instead of the upper surface of the tongue. -- H. Sweet.
Blade (v. t.) To furnish with a blade.
Blade (v. i.) To put forth or have a blade.
As sweet a plant, as fair a flower, is faded As ever in the Muses' garden bladed. -- P. Fletcher.
Blade (n.) Especially a leaf of grass or the broad portion of a leaf as distinct from the petiole [syn: blade, leaf blade].
Blade (n.) A dashing young man; "gay young blades bragged of their amorous adventures".
Blade (n.) Something long and thin resembling a blade of grass; "a blade of lint on his suit".
Blade (n.) A cutting or thrusting weapon that has a long metal blade and a hilt with a hand guard [syn: sword, blade, brand, steel].
Blade (n.) A cut of beef from the shoulder blade.
Blade (n.) A broad flat body part (as of the shoulder or tongue).
Blade (n.) The part of the skate that slides on the ice.
Blade (n.) Flat surface that rotates and pushes against air or water [syn: blade, vane].
Blade (n.) The flat part of a tool or weapon that (usually) has a cutting edge.
BLADE, () Basic Linear Algebra for Distributed Environments.
Blade, () Applied to the glittering point of a spear (Job 39:23) or sword (Nah. 3:3), the blade of a dagger (Judg. 3:22); the "shoulder blade" (Job 31:22); the "blade" of cereals (Matt. 13:26).
Bladebone (n.) The scapula. See Blade, 4.
Bladed (a.) Having a blade or blades; as, a two-bladed knife.
Decking with liquid pearl the bladed grass. -- Shak.
Bladed (a.) Divested of blades; as, bladed corn.
Bladed (a.) (Min.) Composed of long and narrow plates, shaped like the blade of a knife.
Bladed (a.) Bearing or characterized by a blade or sword; often used in combination; "he fought on, broken-bladed but unbowed".
Bladed (a.) Having a blade or blades; often used in combination; "a single-bladed leaf"; "narrow-bladed grass".
Bladed (a.) Composed of thin flat plates resembling a knife blade; "bladed arsenopyrite".
Compare: Hairtail
Hairtail (n.) (Zool.) Any species of marine fishes of the genus Trichiurus; esp., Trichiurus lepturus of Europe and America. They are long and like a band, with a slender, pointed tail. Called also bladefish.
Bladefish (n.) (Zool.) A long, thin, marine fish of Europe (Trichiurus lepturus); the ribbon fish.
Bladesmith (n.) A sword cutler. [Obs.]
Blady (a.) Consisting of blades.
Blae (a.) Dark blue or bluish gray; lead-colored. [Scot.]
Blae (a.) Of bluish-black or grey-blue.
Blaeberry (n.) The bilberry. [North of Eng. & Scot.]
Blaeberry (n.) Erect European blueberry having solitary flowers and blue-black berries [syn: bilberry, whortleberry, whinberry, blaeberry, Viccinium myrtillus].
Blague (n.) Mendacious boasting; falsehood; humbug.
Blain (n.) An inflammatory swelling or sore; a bulla, pustule, or blister.
Blotches and blains must all his flesh emboss. -- Milton.
Blain (n.) (Far.) A bladder growing on the root of the tongue of a horse, against the windpipe, and stopping the breath.
Blain (n.) An inflammatory swelling or sore.
Blain, PA -- U.S. borough in Pennsylvania
Population (2000): 252
Housing Units (2000): 102
Land area (2000): 0.352879 sq. miles (0.913952 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.352879 sq. miles (0.913952 sq. km)
FIPS code: 06824
Located within: Pennsylvania (PA), FIPS 42
Location: 40.337233 N, 77.510525 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 17006
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Blain, PA
Blain
Blamable (a.) 可責備的，有過失的 Deserving of censure; faulty; culpable; reprehensible; censurable; blameworthy. -- Blam"a*ble*ness, n. -- Blam"a*bly, adv.
Blamable (a.) Deserving blame or censure as being wrong or evil or injurious; "blameworthy if not criminal behavior"; "censurable misconduct"; "culpable negligence" [syn: blameworthy, blamable, blameable, blameful, censurable, culpable].
Blamableness (n.) The state of being blamable.
Blamed (imp. & p. p.) of Blame
Blaming (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Blame
Blame (v. t.) To censure; to express disapprobation of; to find fault with; to reproach.
We have none to blame but ourselves. -- Tillotson.
Blame (v. t.) To bring reproach upon; to blemish. [Obs.]
She . . . blamed her noble blood. -- Spenser.
To blame, to be blamed, or deserving blame; In fault; as, the conductor was to blame for the accident.
You were to blame, I must be plain with you. -- Shak.
Blame (n.) An expression of disapprobation fir something deemed to be wrong; imputation of fault; censure.
Let me bear the blame forever. -- Gen. xiiii. 9.
Blame (n.) That which is deserving of censure or disapprobation; culpability; fault; crime; sin.
Holy and without blame before him in love. -- Eph. i.
Blame (n.) Hurt; injury. [Obs.] -- Spenser.
Syn: Censure; reprehension; condemnation; reproach; fault; sin; crime; wrongdoing.
Blame (a.) Expletives used informally as intensifiers; "he's a blasted idiot"; "it's a blamed shame"; "a blame cold winter"; "not a blessed dime"; "I'll be damned (or blessed or darned or goddamned) if I'll do any such thing"; "he's a damn (or goddam or goddamned) fool"; "a deuced idiot"; "an infernal nuisance" [syn: blasted, blame, blamed, blessed, damn, damned, darned, deuced, goddam, goddamn, goddamned, infernal].
Blame (n.) An accusation that you are responsible for some lapse or misdeed; "his incrimination was based on my testimony"; "the police laid the blame on the driver" [syn: incrimination, inculpation, blame].
Blame (n.) A reproach for some lapse or misdeed; "he took the blame for it"; "it was a bum rap" [syn: blame, rap].
Blame (v.) Put or pin the blame on [syn: blame, fault] [ant: absolve, free, justify].
Blame (v.) Harass with constant criticism; "Don't always pick on your little brother" [syn: blame, find fault, pick].
Blame (v.) Attribute responsibility to; "We blamed the accident on her"; "The tragedy was charged to her inexperience" [syn: blame, charge].
Blame (v.) [ T ] (B1) 責備；責怪；歸咎於 To say or think that someone or something did something wrong or is responsible for something bad happening.
// Don't blame me (= it is not my fault) if you miss the bus!
// Hugh blames his mother for his lack of confidence.
// Hugh blames his lack of confidence on his mother.
I don't blame sb (C2) 我不會怪你的；我理解你的心情 Said in order to tell someone that you understand why they are doing something and that you agree with the reason for doing it.
// I don't blame him for getting angry - she's being really annoying.
// "I decided to leave." "I don't blame you!"
Be to blame (C1) 是…的原因 To be the reason for something that happens.
// The hot weather is partly to blame for the water shortage.
Idiom:
A bad workman blames his tools (UK saying) 拙匠埋怨工具差；人笨怪刀鈍 Said when someone has blamed a mistake or failure on the things that they use to work.
Blame (n.) [ U ] (B2) 責備；怪罪；歸咎於 The situation in which people say or think that someone or something did something wrong or is responsible for something bad happening.
// Health officials put the blame for the disease on (= say that the reason for the disease is) poor housing conditions.
// They tried to pin (= put) the blame for the killing on an innocent army officer.
// We want to find out what happened, not to apportion blame (= to say someone or something was wrong).
Take the blame, 引咎；認錯；對…負責 If you take the blame for something, you say that you did it or that it is your fault.
// If anything goes wrong, I'll take the blame.
Blameful (a.) Faulty; meriting blame. -- Shak.
Blameful (a.) Attributing blame or fault; implying or conveying censure; faultfinding; censorious. -- Chaucer. -- Blame"ful*ly, adv. -- Blame"ful*ness, n.
Blameful (a.)Deserving blame or censure as being wrong or evil or injurious; "blameworthy if not criminal behavior"; "censurable misconduct"; "culpable negligence" [syn: blameworthy, blamable, blameable, blameful, censurable, culpable].
Blameless (a.) Free from blame; without fault; innocent; guiltless; -- sometimes followed by of.
A bishop then must be blameless. -- 1 Tim. iii. 2.
Blameless still of arts that polish to deprave. -- Mallet.
We will be blameless of this thine oath. -- Josh. ii. 17.
Syn: Irreproachable; sinless; unblemished; inculpable.
Usage: Blameless, Spotless, Faultless, Stainless. We speak of a thing as blameless when it is free from blame, or the just imputation of fault; as, a blameless life or character. The others are stronger.
We speak of a thing as faultless, stainless, or spotless, only when we mean that it is absolutely without fault or blemish; as, a spotless or stainless reputation; a faultless course of conduct. The last three words apply only to the general character, while blameless may be used in reverence to particular points; as, in this transaction he was wholly blameless. We also apply faultless to personal appearance; as, a faultless figure; which can not be done in respect to any of the other words.
Blameless (a.) Free of guilt; not subject to blame; "has lived a blameless life"; "of irreproachable character"; "an unimpeachable reputation" [syn: blameless, inculpable, irreproachable, unimpeachable].
Blamelessly (adv.) In a blameless manner.
Blamelessly (adv.) In an irreproachable and blameless manner; "she had lived blamelessly until she met this man" [syn: irreproachably, blamelessly].
Blamelessness (n.) The quality or state of being blameless; innocence.
Blamelessness (n.) A state of innocence [syn: blamelessness, inculpability, inculpableness, guiltlessness].
Blamer (n.) One who blames. -- Wyclif.
Blameworthy (a.) Deserving blame; culpable; reprehensible. -- Blame"wor`thi*ness, n.
Blameworthy (a.) Deserving blame or censure as being wrong or evil or injurious; "blameworthy if not criminal behavior"; "censurable misconduct"; "culpable negligence" [syn: blameworthy, blamable, blameable, blameful, censurable, culpable].
Blancard (n.) A kind of linen cloth made in Normandy, the thread of which is partly blanches before it is woven.
Blanched (imp. & p. p.) of Blanch
Blanching (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Blanch
Blanch (v. t.) To take the color out of, and make white; to bleach; as, to blanch linen; age has blanched his hair.
Blanch (v. t.) (Gardening) To bleach by excluding the light, as the stalks or leaves of plants, by earthing them up or tying them together.
Blanch (v. t.) (Confectionery & Cookery) To make white by removing the skin of, as by scalding; as, to blanch almonds.