Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter B - Page 54
Blessed thistle () See under Thistle.
Blessed thistle (n.) Tall Old World biennial thistle with large clasping white-blotched leaves and purple flower heads; naturalized in California and South America [syn: milk thistle, lady's thistle, Our Lady's mild thistle, holy thistle, blessed thistle, Silybum marianum].
Blessed thistle (n.) Annual of Mediterranean to Portugal having hairy stems and minutely spiny-toothed leaves and large heads of yellow flowers [syn: blessed thistle, sweet sultan, Cnicus benedictus].
Blesser (n.) One who blesses; one who bestows or invokes a blessing.
Blessing (n.) The act of one who blesses.
Blessing (n.) A declaration of divine favor, or an invocation imploring divine favor on some or something; a benediction; a wish of happiness pronounces.
This is the blessing, where with Moses the man of God blessed the children of Israel. -- Deut. xxxiii. 1.
Blessing (n.) A means of happiness; that which promotes prosperity and welfare; a beneficent gift.
Nature's full blessings would be well dispensed. -- Milton.
Blessing (n.) (Bib.) A gift. [A Hebraism] -- Gen. xxxiii. 11.
Blessing (n.) Grateful praise or worship.
Blessing (n.) The formal act of approving; "he gave the project his blessing"; "his decision merited the approval of any sensible person" [syn: blessing, approval, approving] [ant: disapproval].
Blessing (n.) A desirable state; "enjoy the blessings of peace"; "a spanking breeze is a boon to sailors" [syn: blessing, boon].
Blessing (n.) A short prayer of thanks before a meal; "their youngest son said grace" [syn: grace, blessing, thanksgiving].
Blessing (n.) A ceremonial prayer invoking divine protection [syn: benediction, blessing].
Blessing (n.) The act of praying for divine protection [syn: blessing, benediction].
Blessing, TX -- U.S. Census Designated Place in Texas
Population (2000): 861
Housing Units (2000): 334
Land area (2000): 2.031646 sq. miles (5.261940 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 2.031646 sq. miles (5.261940 sq. km)
FIPS code: 08668
Located within: Texas (TX), FIPS 48
Location: 28.871300 N, 96.220740 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 77419
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
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Blessing
Blest (a.) Blessed. "This patriarch blest." -- Milton.
White these blest sounds my ravished ear assail. -- Trumbull.
Blest (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]
Blet (n.) A form of decay in fruit which is overripe.
Blet (v. i.) [imp. & p. p. Bletted; p. pr. & vb. n. Bletting.] To decay internally when overripe; -- said of fruit.
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. -- Lindley.
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.) 使枯萎；使頹喪 To affect with blight; to blast; to prevent the growth and fertility of.
[This vapor] blasts vegetables, blights corn and fruit, and is sometimes injurious even to man. -- Woodward.
Blight (v. t.) Hence: To destroy the happiness of; to ruin; to mar essentially; to frustrate; as, to blight one's prospects.
Seared in heart and lone and blighted. -- Byron.
Blight (v. i.) 患枯萎病；枯萎；頹喪 To be affected by blight; to blast; as, this vine never blights.
Blight (n.) （植物）枯萎病 [U]；導致毀滅的事物；破壞希望（或計畫）的因素；禍害 [C] 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.
A blight seemed to have fallen over our fortunes. -- Disraeli.
Blight (n.) (Zool.) 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.) pl. A rashlike eruption on the human skin. [U. S.]
Blight (n.) A state or condition being blighted.
Blight (n.) Any plant disease resulting in withering without rotting.
Blight (v.) Cause to suffer a blight; "Too much rain may blight the garden with mold" [syn: blight, plague].
Blight (n.) A disease that makes plants dry up and die.
Blight (n.) Something that causes harm or damage like a disease.
Blight (n.) A damaged condition.
Blight (n.) a : A disease or injury of plants marked by the formation of lesions, withering, and death of parts (as leaves and tubers). b : An organism (as an insect or a fungus) that causes blight.
Blight (n.) Something that frustrates plans or hopes.
Blight (n.) Something that impairs or destroys.
Blight (v.) To damage (plants) with a disease.
Blight (v.) To damage (a thing or place).
Blight (v. t.) To affect (as a plant) with blight.
Blight (v. t.) To impair the quality or effect of <the condition that has blighted his son's life - Patricia Guthrie>.
Blight (v. i.) To suffer from or become affected with blight.
Blight (n.) A disease that makes parts of plants dry up and die.
Blight (v.) To injure or destroy by or as if by a blight <Huge signs blighted the landscape.>. - blighted ,- blighting.
Blight (n.) Australian : An inflammation of the eye in which the eyelids discharge a thick mucous substance that often seals them up for days and minute granular pustules develop inside the lid called also sandy blight.
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.
He that is strucken blind can not forget The precious treasure of his eyesight lost. -- Shak.
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.
But hard be hardened, blind be blinded more, That they may stumble on, and deeper fall. -- Milton.
Blind (a.) Undiscerning; undiscriminating; inconsiderate.
This plan is recommended neither to blind approbation nor to blind reprobation. -- Jay.
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.
The blind mazes of this tangled wood. -- Milton.
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.) (Hort.) Abortive; failing to produce flowers or fruit; as, blind buds; blind flowers.
Blind alley, An alley closed at one end; a cul-de-sac.
Blind axle, An axle which turns but does not communicate motion. -- Knight.
Blind beetle, One of the insects apt to fly against people, esp. at night.
Blind cat (Zool.), A species of catfish ({Gronias nigrolabris), nearly destitute of eyes, living in caverns in Pennsylvania.
Blind coal, Coal that burns without flame; anthracite coal. -- Simmonds.
Blind door, Blind window, An imitation of a door or window, without an opening for passage or light. See Blank door or Blank window, under Blank, a.
Blind level (Mining), A level or drainage gallery which has a vertical shaft at each end, and acts as an inverted siphon. -- Knight.
Blind nettle (Bot.), Dead nettle. See Dead nettle, under Dead.
Blind shell (Gunnery), A shell containing no charge, or one that does not explode.
Blind side, The side which is most easily assailed; a weak or unguarded side; the side on which one is least able or disposed to see danger. -- Swift.
Blind snake (Zool.), A small, harmless, burrowing snake, of the family Typhlopid[ae], with rudimentary eyes.
Blind spot (Anat.), The point in the retina of the eye where the optic nerve enters, and which is insensible to light.
Blind tooling, In bookbinding and leather work, the indented impression of heated tools, without gilding; -- called also blank tooling, and blind blocking.
Blind wall, A wall without an opening; a blank wall.
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. "To blind the truth and me." -- Tennyson.
A blind guide is certainly a great mischief; but a guide that blinds those whom he should lead is . . . a much greater. -- South.
Blind (v. t.) To deprive partially of vision; to make vision difficult for and painful to; to dazzle.
Her beauty all the rest did blind. -- P. Fletcher.
Blind (v. t.) To darken; to obscure to the eye or understanding; to conceal; to deceive.
Such darkness blinds the sky. -- Dryden.
The state of the controversy between us he endeavored, with all his art, to blind and confound. -- Stillingfleet.
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.) (Mil.) A blindage. See Blindage.
Blind (n.) A halting place. [Obs.] -- Dryden. Blind
Blind (n.) Alt. of Blinde.
Blinde (n.) See Blende.
Blind (a.) Unable to see; "a person is blind to the extent that he must devise alternative techniques to do efficiently those things he would do with sight if he had normal vision" -- Kenneth Jernigan [syn: blind, unsighted] [ant: sighted].
Blind (a.) Unable or unwilling to perceive or understand; "blind to a lover's faults"; "blind to the consequences of their actions".
Blind (a.) Not based on reason or evidence; "blind hatred"; "blind faith"; "unreasoning panic" [syn: blind, unreasoning].
Blind (n.) People who have severe visual impairments, considered as a group; "he spent hours reading to the blind".
Blind (n.) A hiding place sometimes used by hunters (especially duck hunters); "he waited impatiently in the blind".
Blind (n.) A protective covering that keeps things out or hinders sight; "they had just moved in and had not put up blinds yet" [syn: blind, screen].
Blind (n.) Something intended to misrepresent the true nature of an activity; "he wasn't sick--it was just a subterfuge"; "the holding company was just a blind" [syn: subterfuge, blind].
Blind (v.) Render unable to see.
Blind (v.) Make blind by putting the eyes out; "The criminals were punished and blinded".
Blind (v.) Make dim by comparison or conceal [syn: blind, dim].
Blindage (n.) (Mil.) 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.) (Saddlery) One of the leather screens on a bridle, to hinder a horse from seeing objects at the side; a blinker.
Blinder (n.) Blind consisting of a leather eyepatch sewn to the side of the halter that prevents a horse from seeing something on either side [syn: winker, blinker, blinder].
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.
And when they had blindfolded him, they struck him on the face. -- Luke xxii. 64.
Blindfold (a.) Having the eyes covered; blinded; having the mental eye darkened. Hence: Heedless; reckless; as, blindfold zeal; blindfold fury.
Fate's blindfold reign the atheist loudly owns. -- Dryden.
Blindfold (a.) Wearing a blindfold [syn: blindfold, blindfolded].
Blindfold (n.) A cloth used to cover the eyes.
Blindfold (v.) Cover the eyes of (someone) to prevent him from seeing; "the hostage was blindfolded and driven away".
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.
Blinding (a.) Shining intensely; "the blazing sun"; "blinding headlights"; "dazzling snow"; "fulgent patterns of sunlight"; "the glaring sun" [syn: blazing, blinding, dazzling, fulgent, glaring, glary].
Blindly (adv.) Without sight, discernment, or understanding; without thought, investigation, knowledge, or purpose of one's own.
By his imperious mistress blindly led. -- Dryden. Blindman's buff
Blindly (adv.) Without seeing or looking; "he felt around his desk blindly".
Blindly (adv.) Without preparation or reflection; without a rational basis; "they bought the car blindly"; "he picked a wife blindly".
Blindman's buff, Blind man's buff, () [See Buff a buffet.] A game in which one person is blindfolded, and tries to catch some one of the other players, and tell who it is.
Surely he fancies I play at blindman's buff with him, for he thinks I never have my eyes open. -- Stillingfleet.
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. [Humorous]
Blindness (n.) State or condition of being
blind, literally or figuratively. -- Darwin.
Color blindness, inability to distinguish certain color.
See Daltonism.
Blindness (n.) The state of being blind or lacking sight [syn: blindness, sightlessness, cecity].
Blindstory (n.) (Arch.) The triforium as opposed to the clearstory.
Blindworm (n.) (Zool.) A small, burrowing, snakelike, limbless lizard ({Anguis fragilis), with minute eyes, popularly believed to be blind; the slowworm; -- formerly a name for the adder.
Newts and blindworms do no wrong. -- Shak.
Blindworm (n.) Small burrowing legless European lizard with tiny eyes; popularly believed to be blind [syn: blindworm, slowworm, Anguis fragilis].
Blindworm (n.) Any of the small slender limbless burrowing wormlike amphibians of the order Gymnophiona; inhabit moist soil in tropical regions [syn: caecilian, blindworm].
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.
One eye was blinking, and one leg was lame. -- Pope
Blink (v. i.) To see with the eyes half shut, or indistinctly and with frequent winking, as a person with weak eyes.
Show me thy chink, to blink through with mine eyne. -- Shak.
Blink (v. i.) To shine, esp. with intermittent light; to twinkle; to flicker; to glimmer, as a lamp.
The dew was falling fast, the stars began to blink. -- Wordsworth.
The sun blinked fair on pool and stream . -- Sir W. Scott.
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. [Scot.] -- Jamieson.
Blink (n.) A glimpse or glance.
This is the first blink that ever I had of him. -- Bp. Hall.
Blink (n.) Gleam; glimmer; sparkle. -- Sir W. Scott.
Not a blink of light was there. -- Wordsworth.
Blink (n.) (Naut.) The dazzling whiteness about the horizon caused by the reflection of light from fields of ice at sea; ice blink.
Blink (n. pl.) (Sporting) Boughs cast where deer are to pass, to turn or check them. [Prov. Eng.]
Blink (n.) A reflex that closes and opens the eyes rapidly [syn: blink, eye blink, blinking, wink, winking, nictitation, nictation].
Blink (v.) Briefly shut the eyes; "The TV announcer never seems to blink" [syn: blink, wink, nictitate, nictate].
Blink (v.) Force to go away by blinking; "blink away tears" [syn: wink, blink, blink away].
Blink (v.) Gleam or glow intermittently; "The lights were flashing" [syn: flash, blink, wink, twinkle, winkle].
Blinkard (n.) One who blinks with, or as with, weak eyes.
Among the blind the one-eyed blinkard reigns. -- Marvell.
Blinkard (n.) That which twinkles or glances, as a dim star, which appears and disappears. -- Hakewill.
Blink beer () Beer kept unbroached until it is sharp. -- Crabb.
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.
Nor bigots who but one way see, through blinkers of authority. -- M. Green.
Blinker (n. pl.) A kind of goggles, used to protect the eyes form glare, etc.
Blinker (n.) A light that flashes on and off; used as a signal or to send messages [syn: blinker, flasher].
Blinker (n.) A blinking light on a motor vehicle that indicates the direction in which the vehicle is about to turn [syn: blinker, turn signal, turn indicator, trafficator].
Blinker (n.) Blind consisting of a leather eyepatch sewn to the side of the halter that prevents a horse from seeing something on either side [syn: winker, blinker, blinder].
Blinker (v.) Put blinders on (a horse).
Blink-eyed (a.) Habitually winking. -- Marlowe.
Blirt (n.) (Naut.) A gust of wind and rain. -- Ham. Nav. Encyc.
Blisses (n. pl. ) of Bliss.
Bliss (n.) Orig., blithesomeness; gladness; now, the highest degree of happiness; blessedness; exalted felicity; heavenly joy.
An then at last our bliss Full and perfect is. -- Milton.
Syn: Blessedness; felicity; beatitude; happiness; joy; enjoyment. See Happiness.
Bliss (n.) A state of extreme happiness [syn: bliss, blissfulness, cloud nine, seventh heaven, walking on air].
Basic Language for Implementation of System Software.
BLISS
(BLISS, or allegedly, "System Software Implementation Language, Backwards") A language designed by W.A. Wulf at CMU around 1969.
BLISS is an expression language. It is block-structured, and typeless, with exception handling facilities, coroutines, a macro system, and a highly optimising compiler. It was one of the first non-{assembly languages} for operating system implementation. It gained fame for its lack of a goto and also lacks implicit dereferencing: all symbols stand for addresses, not values.
Another characteristic (and possible explanation for the backward acronym) was that BLISS fairly uniformly used backward keywords for closing blocks, a famous example being ELUDOM to close a MODULE. An exception was BEGIN...END though you could use (...) instead.
DEC introduced the NOVALUE keyword in their dialects to allow statements to not return a value.
Versions: CMU BLISS-10 for the PDP-10; CMU BLISS-11, BLISS-16, DEC BLISS-16C, DEC BLISS-32, BLISS-36 for VAX/{VMS">VAX/{VMS, BLISS-36C.
["BLISS: A Language for Systems Programming", CACM 14(12):780-790, Dec 1971].
[Did the B stand for "Better"?]
(1997-03-01)
Bliss, ID -- U.S. city in Idaho
Population (2000): 275
Housing Units (2000): 147
Land area (2000): 0.517141 sq. miles (1.339388 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.517141 sq. miles (1.339388 sq. km)
FIPS code: 08470
Located within: Idaho (ID), FIPS 16
Location: 42.926123 N, 114.948697 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 83314
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
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Bliss
Blissful (a.) Full of, characterized by, or causing, joy and felicity; happy in the highest degree. "Blissful solitude." -- Milton. -- Bliss"ful*ly, adv. -- Bliss"ful*ness, n.
Blissful (a.) Completely happy and contented; "blissful young lovers"; "in blissful ignorance".
Blissless (a.) Destitute of bliss. -- Sir P. Sidney.
Blissom (v. i.) To be lustful; to be lascivious. [Obs.]
Blissom (a.) Lascivious; also, in heat; -- said of ewes.
Blister (n.) [C] （皮膚上的）水泡；（金屬的）砂眼；（玻璃的）氣泡；（飛機，汽車的）泡形罩 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.
And painful blisters swelled my tender hands. -- Grainger.
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. -- Dunglison.
Blister beetle, A beetle used to raise blisters, esp. the Lytta vesicatoria (or Cantharis vesicatoria), called Cantharis or Spanish fly by druggists. See Cantharis.
Blister fly, A blister beetle.
Blister plaster, A plaster designed to raise a blister; -- usually made of Spanish flies.
Blister steel, Crude steel formed from wrought iron by cementation; -- so called because of its blistered surface. Called also blistered steel.
Blood blister. See under Blood.
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.
Let my tongue blister. -- Shak.
Blister (v. t.) 使起水泡（或氣泡）；猛烈抨擊；痛打 To raise a blister or blisters upon.
My hands were blistered. -- Franklin.