Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter B - Page 52
Blast (v. i.) To blow; to blow on a trumpet. [Obs.]
Toke his blake trumpe faste And gan to puffen and to blaste. -- Chaucer.
Blast (n.) A very long fly ball.
Blast (n.) A sudden very loud noise [syn: bang, clap, eruption, blast, bam].
Blast (n.) A strong current of air; "the tree was bent almost double by the gust" [syn: gust, blast, blow].
Blast (n.) An explosion (as of dynamite).
Blast (n.) A highly pleasurable or exciting experience; "we had a good time at the party"; "celebrating after the game was a blast" [syn: good time, blast].
Blast (n.) Intense adverse criticism; "Clinton directed his fire at the Republican Party"; "the government has come under attack"; "don't give me any flak" [syn: fire, attack, flak, flack, blast].
Blast (v.) Make a strident sound; "She tended to blast when speaking into a microphone" [syn: blast, blare].
Blast (v.) Hit hard; "He smashed a 3-run homer" [syn: smash, nail, boom, blast].
Blast (v.) Use explosives on; "The enemy has been shelling us all day" [syn: blast, shell].
Blast (v.) Apply a draft or strong wind to to; "the air conditioning was blasting cold air at us".
Blast (v.) Create by using explosives; "blast a passage through the mountain" [syn: blast, shell].
Blast (v.) Make with or as if with an explosion; "blast a tunnel through the Alps".
Blast (v.) Fire a shot; "the gunman blasted away" [syn: blast, shoot].
Blast (v.) Criticize harshly or violently; "The press savaged the new President"; "The critics crucified the author for plagiarizing a famous passage" [syn: savage, blast, pillory, crucify].
Blast (v.) Shatter as if by explosion [syn: blast, knock down].
Blast (v.) Shrivel or wither or mature imperfectly.
BLAST, () Bell Labs Layered Space Time.
BLAST () BLocked ASynchronous Transmission.
Blast (v., n.) Synonym for BLT, used esp. for large data sends over a network or comm line. Opposite of snarf. Usage: uncommon. The variant ?blat? has been reported.
Blast (v. t.) [HP/Apollo] Synonymous with nuke (sense 3). Sometimes the message Unable to kill all processes. Blast them (y/ n)? would appear in the command window upon logout.
Blast, () BLT, used especially for large data sends over a network or comm line. Opposite of snarf. Usage: uncommon. The variant "blat" has been reported.
Blast, () [HP/ Apollo] Synonymous with nuke. Sometimes the message "Unable to kill all processes. Blast them (y/ n)?" would appear in the command window upon logout.
Blasted (a.) Blighted; withered.
Upon this blasted heath. -- Shak.
Blasted (a.) Confounded; accursed; detestable.
Some of her own blasted gypsies. -- Sir W. Scott.
Blasted (a.) Rent open by an explosive.
The blasted quarry thunders, heard remote. -- Wordsworth.
Blasted (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].
Blastemata (n. pl. ) of Blastema
Blastema (n.) (Biol.) The structureless, protoplasmic tissue of the embryo; the primitive basis of an organ yet unformed, from which it grows.
Blastemal (a.) (Biol.) Relating to the blastema; rudimentary.
Blastemal (a.) Of or relating to blastemata [syn: blastemal, blastematic, blastemic].
Blastematic (a.) (Biol.) Connected with, or proceeding from, the blastema; blastemal.
Blastematic (a.) Of or relating to blastemata [syn: blastemal, blastematic, blastemic].
Blaster (n.) One who, or that which, blasts or destroys.
Blaster (n.) A workman employed to blast with explosives [syn: blaster, chargeman].
Blastide (n.) (Biol.) 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.
I have smitten you with blasting and mildew. -- Amos iv. 9.
Blasting (n.) The act or process of one who, or that which, blasts; the business of one who blasts.
Blasting (a.) Causing injury or blight; especially affecting with sudden violence or plague or ruin; "the blasting effects of the intense cold on the budding fruit"; "the blasting force of the wind blowing sharp needles of sleet in our faces"; "a ruinous war" [syn: blasting, ruinous].
Blasting (a.) Unpleasantly loud and penetrating; "the blaring noise of trumpets"; "shut our ears against the blasting music from his car radio" [syn: blaring, blasting].
Blastment (n.) A sudden stroke or injury produced by some destructive cause. [Obs.] -- Shak.
Blastocarpous (a.) (Bot.) Germinating inside the pericarp, as the mangrove. -- Brande & C. Blastocoele Blastocoel.
Blastocoele (n.) (Biol.) The cavity of the blastosphere, -- also called segmentation cavity.
Blastocoele (n.) The fluid-filled cavity inside a blastula [syn: blastocoel, blastocoele, blastocele, segmentation cavity, cleavage cavity].
Blastocyst (n.) (Biol.) The germinal vesicle.
Blastocyst (n.) The blastula of a placental mammal in which some differentiation of cells has occurred [syn: blastocyst, blastodermic vessicle].
Blastoderm (n.) (Embryology) The early stage of an embryo after the first cleavages of the ovum; also, the layer of cells of which the early embryo is composed; specifically:
Blastoderm (n.) (a) The early embryo developing from a blastodisc, after the blastocoel has formed.
Blastoderm (n.) (b) In an insect embryo, the layer of cells that surrounds the internal mass of the yolk. Blastodermatic
Blastoderm (n.) A layer of cells on the inside of the blastula [syn: blastoderm, germinal disc, blastodisc, germinal area].
Blastoderm (n.) 胚盤 The germinal membrane in an ovum, from which the embryo is developed.
Blastoderm (n.) [Embryology] The layer of embryonic tissue that forms prior to the development of the embryonic axis.
‘Early development is essentially two-dimensional; patterning occurs mainly in the blastoderm, the superficial layer of the embryo that consists first of nuclei and later of cells.’
Blastoderm (n.) The outer layer of cells that forms the wall of a blastula.
‘When the membranes surrounding the peripheral nuclei fuse to form the 6000 cells of the cellular blastoderm, they enclose 175-225 polyploid yolk nuclei within a large syncytial yolk cell.’
Blastodermatic (a.) Alt. of Blastodermic
Blastodermic (a.) Of or pertaining to the blastoderm.
Blastodermatic (a.) Of or relating to a blastoderm [syn: blastodermatic, blastodermic].
Blastogenesis (n.) (Biol.) Multiplication or increase by gemmation or budding.
Blastogenesis (n.) Asexual reproduction by budding.
Blastogenesis (n.) Theory that inherited characteristics are transmitted by germ plasm.
Blastoid (n.) (Zool.) One of the Blastoidea.
Blastoidea (n. pl.) (Zool.) One of the divisions of Crinoidea found fossil in paleozoic rocks; pentremites. They are so named on account of their budlike form.
Blastomere (n.) (Biol.) One of the segments first formed by the division of the ovum. -- Balfour.
Blastomere (n.) Any cell resulting from cleavage of a fertilized egg.
Blastophoral (a.) Alt. of Blastophoric
Blastophoric (a.) Relating to the blastophore.
Blastophore (n.) (Biol.) That portion of the spermatospore which is not converted into spermatoblasts, but carries them.
Blastopore (n.) (Biol.) The pore or opening leading into the cavity of invagination, or archenteron.
Note: [See Illust. of Invagination.] -- Balfour.
Blastopore (n.) The opening into the archenteron.
Morula (n.; pl.) Morulae. (Biol.) The sphere or globular mass of cells (blastomeres), formed by the clevage of the ovum or egg in the first stages of its development; -- called also mulberry mass, segmentation sphere, and blastosphere. See Segmentation.
Blastosphere (n.) (Biol.) The hollow globe or sphere formed by the arrangement of the blastomeres on the periphery of an impregnated ovum.
Note: [See Illust. of Invagination.]
Blastosphere (n.) Early stage of an embryo produced by cleavage of an ovum; a liquid-filled sphere whose wall is composed of a single layer of cells; during this stage (about eight days after fertilization) implantation in the wall of the uterus occurs [syn: blastula, blastosphere].
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.) 喧囂的，吵鬧的，俗麗的，炫耀的 Bellowing, as a calf; bawling; brawling; clamoring; disagreeably clamorous; sounding loudly and harshly.
Blatant (a.) Without any attempt at concealment; completely obvious; "blatant disregard of the law"; "a blatant appeal to vanity"; "a blazing indiscretion" [syn: {blatant}, {blazing}, {conspicuous}]
Blatant (a.) Conspicuously and offensively loud; given to vehement outcry; "blatant radios"; "a clamorous uproar"; "strident demands"; "a vociferous mob" [syn: {blatant}, {clamant}, {clamorous}, {strident}, {vociferous}]
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.) [C] 火焰；火災；熊熊燃燒；強烈的光，光輝；鮮明的色彩，燦爛 A stream of gas or vapor emitting light and heat in the process of combustion; a bright flame. "To heaven the blaze uprolled." -- Croly.
Blaze (n.) Intense, direct light accompanied with heat; as, to seek shelter from the blaze of the sun.
O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon! -- Milton.
Blaze (n.) A bursting out, or active display of any quality; an outburst; a brilliant display. "Fierce blaze of riot." "His blaze of wrath." -- Shak.
For what is glory but the blaze of fame? -- Milton.
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.
Three blazes in a perpendicular line on the same tree indicating a legislative road, the single blaze a settlement or neighborhood road. -- Carlton.
In a blaze, on fire; burning with a flame; filled with, giving, or reflecting light; excited or exasperated.
Like blazes, furiously; rapidly. [Low] "The horses did along like blazes tear." -- Poem in Essex dialect.
Note: In low language in the U. S., blazes is frequently used of something extreme or excessive, especially of something very bad; as, blue as blazes. -- Neal.
Syn: Blaze, Flame.
Usage: A blaze and a flame are both produced by burning gas.
In blaze the idea of light rapidly evolved is prominent, with or without heat; as, the blaze of the sun or of a meteor. Flame includes a stronger notion of heat; as, he perished in the flames.
Blazed (imp. & p. p.) of Blaze
Blazing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Blaze
Blaze (v. i.) 燃燒；閃耀；炫示 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.
And far and wide the icy summit blazed. -- Wordsworth.
Blaze (v. i.) To be
resplendent. -- Macaulay.
To blaze away, to
discharge a firearm, or to continue firing; -- said esp. of a number
of persons, as a line of soldiers. Also used (fig.) of speech or
action. [Colloq.]
Blaze (v. t.) To mark (a tree) by chipping off a piece of the bark.
I found my way by the blazed trees. -- Hoffman.
Blaze (v. t.) To designate by blazing; to mark out, as by blazed trees; as, to blaze a line or path.
Champollion died in 1832, having done little more than blaze out the road to be traveled by others. -- Nott.
Blaze (v. t.) To make public far and wide; to make known; to render conspicuous.
On charitable lists he blazed his name. -- Pollok.
To blaze those virtues which the good would hide. -- Pope.
Blaze (v. t.) (Her.) To blazon. [Obs.] -- Peacham.
Blaze (n.) A strong flame that burns brightly; "the blaze spread rapidly" [syn: blaze, blazing].
Blaze (n.) A cause of difficulty and suffering; "war is hell"; "go to blazes" [syn: hell, blaze].
Blaze (n.) Noisy and unrestrained mischief; "raising blazes" [syn: hell, blaze].
Blaze (n.) A light within the field of vision that is brighter than the brightness to which the eyes are adapted; "a glare of sunlight" [syn: glare, blaze, brilliance].
Blaze (n.) A light-colored marking; "they chipped off bark to mark the trail with blazes"; "the horse had a blaze between its eyes".
Blaze (v.) Shine brightly and intensively; "Meteors blazed across the atmosphere".
Blaze (v.) Shoot rapidly and repeatedly; "He blazed away at the men" [syn: blaze away, blaze].
Blaze (v.) Burn brightly and intensely; "The summer sun alone can cause a pine to blaze".
Blaze (v.) Move rapidly and as if blazing; "The spaceship blazed out into space" [syn: blaze, blaze out].
Blaze (v.) Indicate by marking trees with blazes; "blaze a trail".
Blaze, () A single assignment language for parallel processing.
["The BLAZE Language: A Parallel Language for Scientific Programming", P. Mehrotra et al, J Parallel Comp 5(3):339-361 (Nov 1987)].
Blazer (n.) One who spreads reports or blazes matters abroad. "Blazers of crime." -- Spenser.
Blazer (n.) Anything that blazes or glows, as with heat or flame.
Blazer (n.) A light jacket, usually of wool or silk and of a bright color, for wear at tennis, cricket, or other sport.
Blazer (n.) The dish used when cooking directly over the flame of a chafing-dish lamp, or the coals of a brasier.
Blazer (n.) Lightweight single-breasted jacket; often striped in the colors of a club or school [syn: blazer, sport jacket, sport coat, sports jacket, sports coat].
Blazing (a.) Burning with a blaze; as, a blazing fire; blazing torches. -- Sir W. Scott.
Blazing star. (a) A comet. [Obs.]
Blazing star. (b) A brilliant center of attraction.
Blazing star. (c) (Bot.) A name given to several plants; as, to Cham[ae]lirium luteum of the Lily family; Liatris squarrosa; and Aletris farinosa, called also colicroot and star grass.
Blazing (a.) Shining intensely; "the blazing sun"; "blinding headlights"; "dazzling snow"; "fulgent patterns of sunlight"; "the glaring sun" [syn: blazing, blinding, dazzling, fulgent, glaring, glary].
Blazing (a.) Without any attempt at concealment; completely obvious; "blatant disregard of the law"; "a blatant appeal to vanity"; "a blazing indiscretion" [syn: blatant, blazing, conspicuous].
Blazing (n.) A strong flame that burns brightly; "the blaze spread rapidly" [syn: blaze, blazing].
Blazon (n.) A shield. [Obs.]
Blazon (n.) An heraldic shield; a coat of arms, or a bearing on a coat of arms; armorial bearings.
Their blazon o'er his towers displayed. -- Sir W. Scott.
Blazon (n.) The art or act of describing or depicting heraldic bearings in the proper language or manner. --Peacham.
Blazon (n.) Ostentatious display, either by words or other means; publication; show; description; record.
Obtrude the blazon of their exploits upon the company. -- Collier.
Thy tongue, thy face, thy limbs, actions, and spirit, Do give thee fivefold blazon. -- Shak.
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.
Thyself thou blazon'st. -- Shak.
There pride sits blazoned on th' unmeaning brow. -- Trumbull.
To blazon his own worthless name. -- Cowper.
Blazon (v. t.) To deck; to embellish; to adorn.
She blazons in dread smiles her hideous form. -- Garth.
Blazon (v. t.) (Her.) To describe in proper terms (the figures of heraldic devices); also, to delineate (armorial bearings); to emblazon.
The coat of, arms, which I am not herald enough to blazon into English. -- Addison.
Blazon (v. i.) To shine; to be conspicuous. [R.]
Blazon (n.) The official symbols of a family, state, etc. [syn: coat of arms, arms, blazon, blazonry].
Blazon (v.) Decorate with heraldic arms [syn: emblazon, blazon].
Blazoner (n.) One who gives publicity, proclaims, or blazons; esp., one who blazons coats of arms; a herald. -- Burke.
Blazonment (n.) The act of blazoning; blazoning; emblazonment.
Blazonry (n.) Same as Blazon, 3.
The principles of blazonry. -- Peacham.
Blazonry (n.) A coat of arms; an armorial bearing or bearings.
The blazonry of Argyle. -- Lord Dufferin.
Blazonry (n.) Artistic representation or display.
Blazonry (n.) The official symbols of a family, state, etc. [syn: coat of arms, arms, blazon, blazonry].
Blea (n.) The part of a tree which lies immediately under the bark; the alburnum or sapwood.
Bleaberry (n.) (Bot.) See Blaeberry.
Bleached (imp. & p. p.) of Bleach
Bleaching (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bleach color, or stains, from; to blanch; to whiten.
Bleach (v. t.) 將……漂白；將……曬得褪色；使脫色，使變淡 To make white, or whiter; to remove the
The destruction of the coloring matters attached to the bodies to be bleached is effected either by the action of the air and light, of chlorine, or of sulphurous acid. -- Ure.
Immortal liberty, whose look sublime Hath bleached the tyrant's cheek in every varying clime. -- Smollett.
Bleach (v. i.) 變白；脫色，變淡 To grow white or lose color; to whiten.
Bleach (n.) The whiteness that results from removing the color from something; "a complete bleach usually requires several applications".
Bleach (n.) An agent that makes things white or colorless [syn: bleaching agent, bleach, blanching agent, whitener].
Bleach (n.) The act of whitening something by bleaching it (exposing it to sunlight or using a chemical bleaching agent).
Bleach (v.) Remove color from; "The sun bleached the red shirt" [syn: bleach, bleach out, decolor, decolour, decolorize, decolourize, decolorise, decolourise, discolorize, discolourise, discolorise].
Bleach (v.) Make whiter or lighter; "bleach the laundry".
Bleach (n.) [U] 漂白劑 A strong chemical used for cleaning things or removing colour from things.
Bleached (a.) Whitened; make white.
Let their bleached bones, and blood's unbleaching stain, Long mark the battlefield with hideous awe. -- Byron.
Compare: Dyed
Dyed (a.) Colored or impregnated with dye. [Narrower terms: dyed-in-the-wool, yarn-dyed; hennaed] undyed.
Syn: tinted.
Dyed (a.) Having a new color imparted by impregnation with dye; having an artificially produced color; not naturally colored. [Narrower terms: bleached].
Syn: colored.
Bleached (a.) Having lost freshness or brilliance of color; "sun-bleached deck chairs"; "faded jeans"; "a very pale washed-out blue"; "washy colors" [syn: bleached, faded, washed-out, washy].
Bleached (a.) (Used of color) Artificially produced; not natural; "a bleached blonde" [syn: bleached, colored, coloured, dyed].
Bleacher (n.) One who whitens, or whose occupation is to whiten, by bleaching.
Bleacher (n.) A worker who bleaches (cloth or flour etc.)
Bleacheries (n. 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. --Ure.
Bleaching powder, a powder for bleaching, consisting of
chloride of lime, or some other chemical or chemicals.
Bleak (a.) Without color; pale; pallid. [Obs.]
When she came out she looked as pale and as bleak as one that were laid out dead. -- Foxe.
Bleak (a.) Desolate and exposed; swept by cold winds.
Wastes too bleak to rear The common growth of earth, the foodful ear. -- Wordsworth.
At daybreak, on the bleak sea beach. -- Longfellow.
Bleak (a.) Cold and cutting; cheerless; as, a bleak blast. -- Bleak"ish, a. -- Bleak"ly, adv. -- Bleak"ness, n.
Bleak (a.) (Zool.) A small European river fish ({Leuciscus alburnus), of the family Cyprinidae; the blay. [Written also blick.]
Note: The silvery pigment lining the scales of the bleak is used in the manufacture of artificial pearls. -- Baird.
Bleak (a.) Offering little or no hope; "the future looked black"; "prospects were bleak"; "Life in the Aran Islands has always been bleak and difficult"- J.M.Synge; "took a dim view of things" [syn: black, bleak, dim].
Bleak (a.) Providing no shelter or sustenance; "bare rocky hills"; "barren lands"; "the bleak treeless regions of the high Andes"; "the desolate surface of the moon"; "a stark Landscape" [syn: bare, barren, bleak, desolate, stark].
Bleak (a.) Unpleasantly cold and damp; "bleak winds of the North Atlantic" [syn: bleak, cutting, raw].
Bleaky (a.) Bleak. [Obs.] -- Dryden.
Blear (a.) Dim or sore with water or rheum; -- said of the eyes.
His blear eyes ran in gutters to his chin. -- Dryden.
Blear (a.) Causing or caused by dimness of sight; dim.
Power to cheat the eye with blear illusion. -- Milton.
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.
That tickling rheums Should ever tease the lungs and blear the sight. -- Cowper.
To blear the eye of, to deceive; to impose upon. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Blear (a.) Tired to the point of exhaustion [syn: bleary, blear, bleary-eyed, blear-eyed].
Blear (v.) Make dim or indistinct; "The fog blurs my vision" [syn: blur, blear] [ant: focalise, focalize, focus, sharpen].