Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter B - Page 53
Bleared (a.) Dimmed, as by a watery humor; affected with rheum. -- Blear"ed*ness, n.
Dardanian wives, With bleared visages, come forth to view The issue of the exploit. -- Shak.
Bleareye (n.) (Med.) A disease of the eyelids, consisting in chronic inflammation of the margins, with a gummy secretion of sebaceous matter. -- Dunglison.
Blear-eyed (a.) Having sore eyes; having the eyes dim with rheum; dim-sighted.
The blear-eyed Crispin. -- Drant.
Blear-eyed (a.) Lacking in perception or penetration; short-sighted; as, a blear-eyed bigot.
Blear-eyed (a.) Tired to the point of exhaustion [syn: bleary, blear, bleary-eyed, blear-eyed].
Bleareyedness (n.) The state of being blear-eyed.
Bleary (a.) Somewhat blear.
Bleary (a.) Tired to the point of exhaustion [syn: bleary, blear, bleary-eyed, blear-eyed].
Bleary (a.) Indistinct or hazy in outline; "a landscape of blurred outlines"; "the trees were just blurry shapes" [syn: bleary, blurred, blurry, foggy, fuzzy, hazy, muzzy].
Bleated (imp. & p. p.) of Bleat
Bleating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bleat
Bleat (v. i.) To make the noise of, or one like that of, a sheep; to cry like a sheep or calf.
Then suddenly was heard along the main, To low the ox, to bleat the woolly train. -- Pope
The ewe that will not hear her lamb when it baas, will never answer a calf when he bleats. -- Shak.
Bleat (n.) A plaintive cry of, or like that of, a sheep.
The bleat of fleecy sheep. -- Chapman's Homer.
Bleat (n.) The sound of sheep or goats (or any sound resembling this).
Bleat (v.) Talk whiningly.
Bleat (v.) Cry plaintively; "The lambs were bleating" [syn: bleat, blate, blat, baa].
Bleater (n.) One who bleats; a sheep.
In cold, stiff soils the bleaters oft complain Of gouty ails. -- Dyer.
Bleating (a.) Crying as a sheep does.
Then came the shepherd back with his bleating flocks from the seaside. -- Longfellow.
Bleating (n.) The cry of, or as of, a sheep. -- Chapman.
Bleb (n.) A large vesicle or bulla, usually containing a serous fluid; a blister; a bubble, as in water, glass, etc.
Arsenic abounds with air blebs. -- Kirwan.
Bleb (n.) (Pathology) An elevation of the skin filled with serous fluid [syn: blister, bulla, bleb].
Blebby (a.) Containing blebs, or characterized by blebs; as, blebby glass.
Syn: blebbed. Bleck
Blebby (a.) Covered with small blisters [syn: blebby, blistery].
Blebby (a.) (Of glass or quartzite) Marred by small bubbles or small particles of foreign material [syn: blebbed, blebby].
Bleck (v. t.) Alt. of Blek
Blek (v. t.) To blacken; also, to defile. [Obs. or Dial.] -- Wyclif.
Bled (imp. & p. p.) of Bleed.
Blee (n.) Complexion; color; hue; likeness; form.
Bled (imp. & p. p.) of Bleed
Bleeding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bleed
Bleed (v. i.) To emit blood; to lose blood; to run with blood, by whatever means; as, the arm bleeds; the wound bled freely; to bleed at the nose.
Bleed (v. i.) To withdraw blood from the body; to let blood; as, Dr. A. bleeds in fevers.
Bleed (v. i.) To lose or shed one's blood, as in case of a violent death or severe wounds; to die by violence. "C[ae]sar must bleed." -- Shak.
The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day. -- Pope.
Bleed (v. i.) To issue forth, or drop, as blood from an incision.
For me the balm shall bleed. -- Pope.
Bleed (v. i.) To lose sap, gum, or juice; as, a tree or a vine bleeds when tapped or wounded.
Bleed (v. i.) To pay or lose money; to have money drawn or extorted; as, to bleed freely for a cause. [Colloq.]
To make the heart bleed, To cause extreme pain, as from sympathy or pity.
Bleed (v. t.) To let blood from; to take or draw blood from, as by opening a vein.
Bleed (v. t.) To lose, as blood; to emit or let drop, as sap.
A decaying pine of stately size, bleeding amber. -- H. Miller.
Bleed (v. t.) To draw money from (one); to induce to pay; as, they bled him freely for this fund. [Colloq.]
Bleed (v.) Lose blood from one's body [syn: shed blood, bleed, hemorrhage].
Bleed (v.) Draw blood; "In the old days, doctors routinely bled patients as part of the treatment" [syn: bleed, leech, phlebotomize, phlebotomise].
Bleed (v.) Get or extort (money or other possessions) from someone; "They bled me dry--I have nothing left!".
Bleed (v.) Be diffused; "These dyes and colors are guaranteed not to run" [syn: run, bleed].
Bleed (v.) Drain of liquid or steam; "bleed the radiators"; "the mechanic bled the engine".
Bleeder (n.) (Med.) One who, or that which, draws blood.
Bleeder (n.) (Med.) One in whom slight wounds give rise to profuse or uncontrollable bleeding.
Bleeder (n.) Someone who has hemophilia and is subject to uncontrollable bleeding [syn: hemophiliac, haemophiliac, bleeder, hemophile, haemophile].
Bleeding (a.) Emitting, or appearing to emit, blood or sap, etc.; also, expressing anguish or compassion.
Bleeding (n.) A running or issuing of blood, as from the nose or a wound; a hemorrhage; the operation of letting blood, as in surgery; a drawing or running of sap from a tree or plant.
Bleeding (n.) The flow of blood from a ruptured blood vessel [syn: bleeding, hemorrhage, haemorrhage].
Blemished (imp. & p. p.) of Blemish
Blemishing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Blemish
Blemish (v. t.) To mark with deformity; to injure or impair, as anything which is well formed, or excellent; to mar, or make defective, either the body or mind.
Sin is a soil which blemisheth the beauty of thy soul. -- Brathwait.
Blemish (v. t.) To tarnish, as reputation or character; to defame.
There had nothing passed between us that might blemish reputation. -- Oldys.
Blemish (n.) A mark or flaw that spoils the appearance of something (especially on a person's body); "a facial blemish" [syn: blemish, defect, mar].
Blemish (v.) Mar or spoil the appearance of; "scars defaced her cheeks"; "The vandals disfigured the statue" [syn: deface, disfigure, blemish].
Blemish (v.) Mar or impair with a flaw; "her face was blemished" [syn: blemish, spot].
Blemish (v.) Add a flaw or blemish to; make imperfect or defective [syn: flaw, blemish].
Blemishes (n. pl. ) of Blemish
Blemish (n.) Any mark of deformity or injury, whether physical or moral; anything that diminishes beauty, or renders imperfect that which is otherwise well formed; that which impairs reputation.
He shall take two he lambs without blemish, and one ewe lamb of the first year without blemish. -- Lev. xiv. 10.
The reliefs of an envious man are those little blemishes and imperfections that discover themselves in an illustrious character. -- Spectator.
Syn: Spot; speck; flaw; deformity; stain; defect; fault; taint; reproach; dishonor; imputation; disgrace.
Blemishless (a.) Without blemish; spotless.
A life in all so blemishless. -- Feltham.
Blemishment (n.) The state of being blemished; blemish; disgrace; damage; impairment.
For dread of blame and honor's blemishment. -- Spenser.
Blenched (imp. & p. p.) of Blench
Blenching (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Blench
Blench (v. i.) To shrink; to start back; to draw back, from lack of courage or resolution; to flinch; to quail.
Blench not at thy chosen lot. -- Bryant.
This painful, heroic task he undertook, and never blenched from its fulfillment. -- Jeffrey.
Blench (v. i.) To fly off; to turn aside. [Obs.]
Though sometimes you do blench from this to that. -- Shak.
Blench (v. t.) To baffle; to disconcert; to turn away; -- also, to obstruct; to hinder. [Obs.]
Ye should have somewhat blenched him therewith, yet he might and would of likelihood have gone further. -- Sir T. More.
Blench (v. t.) To draw back from; to deny from fear. [Obs.]
He now blenched what before he affirmed. -- Evelyn.
Blench (n.) A looking aside or askance. [Obs.]
These blenches gave my heart another youth. -- Shak.
Blench (v. i. & t.) To grow or make pale. -- Barbour.
Blench (v.) Turn pale, as if in fear [syn: pale, blanch, blench].
Blencher (n.) One who, or that which, scares another; specifically, a person stationed to prevent the escape of the deer, at a hunt. See Blancher. [Obs.]
Blencher (n.) One who blenches, flinches, or shrinks back.
Blench holding () (Law) See Blanch holding.
Blended (imp. & p. p.) of Blend
Blent () of Blend
Blending (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Blend
Blend (v. t.) 使混和，使混雜；使交融 [（+with/ into）]；染黑（毛皮）的毛 To mix or mingle together; esp. to mingle, combine, or associate so that the separate things mixed, or the line of demarcation, can not be distinguished. Hence: To confuse; to confound.
Blending the grand, the beautiful, the gay. -- Percival.
Blend (v. t.) To pollute by mixture or association; to spoil or corrupt; to blot; to stain. [Obs.] -- Spenser.
Syn: To commingle; combine; fuse; merge; amalgamate; harmonize.
Blend (v. i.) 混和，混雜；交融 [（+into/ with）]；協調，相稱 [（+in/ into/ with）] To mingle; to mix; to unite intimately; to pass or shade insensibly into each other, as colors.
There is a tone of solemn and sacred feeling that blends with our conviviality. -- Irving.
Blend (n.) A thorough mixture of one thing with another, as color, tint, etc., into another, so that it cannot be known where one ends or the other begins.
Blend (v. t.) To make blind, literally or figuratively; to dazzle; to deceive. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Blend (n.) An occurrence of thorough mixing.
Blend (n.) A new word formed by joining two others and combining their meanings; "`smog' is a blend of `smoke' and `fog'"; "`motel' is a portmanteau word made by combining `motor' and `hotel'"; "`brunch' is a well-known portmanteau" [syn: {blend}, {portmanteau word}, {portmanteau}].
Blend (n.) The act of blending components together thoroughly [syn: {blend}, {blending}].
Blend (v.) Combine into one; "blend the nuts and raisins together"; "he blends in with the crowd"; "We don't intermingle much" [syn: {blend}, {intermix}, {immingle}, {intermingle}].
Blend (v.) Blend or harmonize; "This flavor will blend with those in your dish"; "This sofa won't go with the chairs" [syn: {blend}, {go}, {blend in}].
Blend (v.) Mix together different elements; "The colors blend well" [syn: {blend}, {flux}, {mix}, {conflate}, {commingle}, {immix}, {fuse}, {coalesce}, {meld}, {combine}, {merge}].
Blended (a.) Combined or mixed together so that the constituent parts are indistinguishable. Antonym of unblended. [Narrower terms: alloyed; emulsified; homogenized].
Syn: mingled, commingled.
Blended (a.) Homogeneous heterogeneous.
Blended (a.) Combined or mixed together so that the constituent parts are indistinguishable [ant: unblended].
Compare: Sphalerite
Sphalerite (n.) (Min.) 【礦】閃鋅礦 Zinc sulphide; -- called also {blende}, {black-jack}, {false galena}, etc. See {Blende} (a) .
Blende (n.) (Min.) 含金屬硫化物的礦物；閃鋅礦 A mineral, called also {sphalerite}, and by miners {mock lead}, {false galena}, and {black-jack}. It is a zinc sulphide, but often contains some iron. Its color is usually yellow, brown, or black, and its luster resinous.
Blende (n.) (Min.) A general term for some minerals, chiefly metallic sulphides which have a somewhat brilliant but nonmetallic luster.
Blende (n.) An ore that is the chief source of zinc; consists largely of zinc sulfide in crystalline form [syn: {zinc blende}, {blende}, {sphalerite}].
Blender (n.) One who, or that which, blends; an instrument, as a brush, used in blending. Specifically, an electrical device with a rapidly rotating spindle to which a specially designed container can be attached, so that the contents of the container are agitated by rotating blades at adjustable speeds, permitting various degrees of homogenization of the contents. container are.
Blender (n.) An electrically powered mixer with whirling blades that mix or chop or liquefy foods [syn: blender, liquidizer, liquidiser].
Blending (n.) The act of mingling.
Blending (n.) (Paint.) The method of laying on different tints so that they may mingle together while wet, and shade into each other insensibly. -- Weale.
Blending (n.) The act of blending components together thoroughly [syn: blend, blending].
Blending (n.) A gradation involving small or imperceptible differences between grades [syn: shading, blending].
Blendous (a.) Pertaining to, consisting of, or containing, blende.
Blendwater (n.) A distemper incident to cattle, in which their livers are affected. -- Crabb.
Blenheim spaniel (n.) A small variety of spaniel, kept as a pet.
Blenheim spaniel (n.) Red-and-white variety of English toy spaniel.
Blenk (v. i.) To blink; to shine; to look. [Obs.] Blennioid
Blennioid (a.) Alt. of Blenniid
Blenniid (a.) (Zool.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling, the blennies.
Blennogenous (a.) Generating mucus.
Blennorrhea (n.) (Med.) An inordinate secretion and discharge of mucus.
Blennorrhea (n.) (Med.) Gonorrhea. -- Dunglison.
Blennies (n. pl. ) of Blenny
Blenny (n.) (Zool.) A marine fish of the genus Blennius or family Blenniidae; -- so called from its coating of mucus. The species are numerous.
Blenny (n.) Small usually scaleless fishes with comb-like teeth living about rocky shores; are territorial and live in holes between rocks [syn: blenny, combtooth blenny].
Blent (imp. & p. p. of Blend to mingle) Mingled; mixed; blended; also, polluted; stained.
Rider and horse, friend, foe, in one red burial blent. -- Byron.
Blent (imp. & p. p. of Blend to blind) Blinded. Also (-- Chaucer), 3d sing. pres. Blindeth. [Obs.]
Blesbok (n.) (Zool.) A South African antelope ({Alcelaphus albifrons), having a large white spot on the forehead.
Blessed (imp. & p. p.) of Bless
Blest (imp. & p. p.) of Bless
Blessing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bless
Bless (v. t.) 為……祝福，為……祈神賜福；保佑，庇護；讚美（神）；感謝，對……感激 To make or pronounce holy; to consecrate.
And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it. -- Gen. ii. 3.
Bless (v. t.) To make happy, blithesome, or joyous; to confer prosperity or happiness upon; to grant divine favor to.
The quality of mercy is . . . twice blest; It blesseth him that gives and him that takes. -- Shak.
It hath pleased thee to bless the house of thy servant, that it may continue forever before thee. -- 1 Chron. xvii. 27 (R. V. )
Bless (v. t.) To express a wish or prayer for the happiness of; to invoke a blessing upon; -- applied to persons.
Bless them which persecute you. -- Rom. xii. 14.
Bless (v. t.) To invoke or confer beneficial attributes or qualities upon; to invoke or confer a blessing on, -- as on food.
Then he took the five loaves and the two fishes, and looking up to heaven, he blessed them. -- Luke ix.16.
Bless (v. t.) To make the sign of the cross upon; to cross (one's self). [Archaic] -- Holinshed.
Bless (v. t.) To guard; to keep; to protect. [Obs.]
Bless (v. t.) To praise, or glorify; to extol for excellences.
Bless the Lord, O my soul: and all that is within me, bless his holy name. -- Ps. ciii. 1.
Bless (v. t.) To esteem or account happy; to felicitate.
The nations shall bless themselves in him. -- Jer. iv. 3.
Bless (v. t.) To wave; to brandish. [Obs.]
And burning blades about their heads do bless. -- Spenser.
Round his armed head his trenchant blade he blest. -- Fairfax
Note: This is an old sense of the word, supposed by Johnson, Nares, and others, to have been derived from the old rite of blessing a field by directing the hands to all parts of it. "In drawing [their bow] some fetch such a compass as though they would turn about and bless all the field." -- Ascham.
Bless me! Bless us! An exclamation of surprise. -- Milton.
To bless from, To secure, defend, or preserve from. "Bless me from marrying a usurer." -- Shak.
To bless the doors from nightly harm. -- Milton.
To bless with, To be blessed with, To favor or endow with; to be favored or endowed with; as, God blesses us with health; we are blessed with happiness.
Bless (v.) Give a benediction to; "The dying man blessed his son" [ant: anathemise, anathemize, bedamn, beshrew, curse, damn, imprecate, maledict].
Bless (v.) Confer prosperity or happiness on.
Bless (v.) Make the sign of the cross over someone in order to call on God for protection; consecrate [syn: bless, sign].
Bless (v.) Render holy by means of religious rites [syn: consecrate, bless, hallow, sanctify] [ant: deconsecrate, desecrate, unhallow].
Bless, () God blesses his people when he bestows on them some gift temporal or spiritual (Gen. 1:22; 24:35; Job 42:12; Ps. 45:2; 104:24, 35).
Bless, () We bless God when we thank him for his mercies (Ps. 103:1, 2; 145:1, 2).
Bless, () A man blesses himself when he invokes God's blessing (Isa. 65:16), or rejoices in God's goodness to him (Deut. 29:19; Ps. 49:18).
Bless, () One blesses another when he expresses good wishes or offers prayer to God for his welfare (Gen. 24:60; 31:55; 1 Sam. 2:20). Sometimes blessings were uttered under divine inspiration, as in the case of Noah, Isaac, Jacob, and Moses (Gen. 9:26, 27; 27:28, 29, 40; 48:15-20; 49:1-28; Deut. 33). The priests were divinely authorized to bless the people (Deut. 10:8; Num. 6:22-27). We have many examples of apostolic benediction (2 Cor. 13:14; Eph. 6:23, 24; 2 Thess. 3:16, 18; Heb. 13:20, 21; 1 Pet. 5:10, 11).
Bless, () Among the Jews in their thank-offerings the master of the feast took a cup of wine in his hand, and after having blessed God for it and for other mercies then enjoyed, handed it to his guests, who all partook of it. Ps. 116:13 refers to this custom. It is also alluded to in 1 Cor. 10:16, where the apostle speaks of the "cup of blessing."
Blessed (a.) Hallowed; consecrated; worthy of blessing or adoration; heavenly; holy.
O, run; prevent them with thy humble ode, And lay it lowly at his blessed feet. -- Milton.
Blessed (a.) Enjoying happiness or bliss; favored with blessings; happy; highly favored.
All generations shall call me blessed. -- Luke i. 48.
Towards England's blessed shore. -- Shak.
Blessed (a.) Imparting happiness or bliss; fraught with happiness; blissful; joyful. "Then was a blessed time." "So blessed a disposition." -- Shak.
Blessed (a.) Enjoying, or pertaining to, spiritual happiness, or heavenly felicity; as, the blessed in heaven.
Reverenced like a blessed saint. -- Shak.
Cast out from God and blessed vision. -- Milton.
Blessed (a.) (R. C. Ch.) Beatified.
Blessed (a.) Used euphemistically, ironically, or intensively.
Not a blessed man came to set her [a boat] free. -- R. D. Blackmore.
Blessed (a.) Highly favored or fortunate (as e.g. by divine grace); "our blessed land"; "the blessed assurance of a steady income" [syn: blessed, blest] [ant: cursed, curst].
Blessed (a.) Worthy of worship; "the Blessed Trinity".
Blessed (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].
Blessed (a.) Roman Catholic; proclaimed one of the blessed and thus worthy of veneration [syn: beatified, blessed].
Blessed (a.) Enjoying the bliss of heaven.
Blessed (a.) Characterized by happiness and good fortune; "a blessed time".
Blessedly (adv.) Happily; fortunately; joyfully.
We shall blessedly meet again never to depart. -- Sir P. Sidney.
Blessedly (adv.) In a blessed manner.
Blessedness (n.) The state of being blessed; happiness; felicity; bliss; heavenly joys; the favor of God.
The assurance of a future blessedness. -- Tillotson.
Single blessedness, The unmarried state. "Grows, lives, and dies in single blessedness." -- Shak.
Syn: Delight; beatitude; ecstasy. See Happiness.
Blessedness (n.) A state of supreme happiness [syn: blessedness, beatitude, beatification].