Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter B - Page 55
Blister (v. t.) To give pain to, or to injure, as if by a blister.
This tyrant, whose sole name blisters our tongue. -- Shak.
Blister (n.) A flaw on a surface resulting when an applied substance does not adhere (as an air bubble in a coat of paint).
Blister (n.) (Botany) A swelling on a plant similar to that on the skin.
Blister (n.) (Pathology) An elevation of the skin filled with serous fluid [syn: blister, bulla, bleb].
Blister (v.) Get blistered; "Her feet blistered during the long hike" [syn: blister, vesicate].
Blister (v.) Subject to harsh criticism; "The Senator blistered the administration in his speech on Friday"; "the professor scaled the students"; "your invectives scorched the community" [syn: blister, scald, whip].
Blister (v.) Cause blisters to form on; "the tight shoes and perspiration blistered her feet".
Blistered (a.) 起泡的；長水泡的；blister 的動詞過去式、過去分詞 Having blisters on the skin or another surface.
‘He had blistered feet.’
‘Blistered paintwork.’
Blistery (a.) Full of blisters.
Blite (n.) A genus of herbs (Blitum) with a fleshy calyx. Blitum capitatum is the strawberry blite.
Blithe (a.) Gay; merry; sprightly; joyous; glad; cheerful; as, a blithe spirit.
Blitheful (a.) Gay; full of gayety; joyous.
Blithely (adv.) In a blithe manner.
Blitheness (n.) The state of being blithe.
Blithesome (a.) Cheery; gay; merry.
Blive (adv.) Quickly; forthwith.
Blizzard (n.) [C] 大風雪，暴風雪；暴風雪似的一陣；大量（或大批）[S1] [（+of）] A gale of piercingly cold wind, usually accompanied with fine and blinding snow; a furious blast. [U. S.]
Blizzard (n.) A storm with widespread snowfall accompanied by strong winds [syn: blizzard, snowstorm].
Blizzard (n.) A series of unexpected and unpleasant occurrences; "a rash of bank robberies"; "a blizzard of lawsuits" [syn: rash, blizzard].
Bloated (imp. & p. p.) of Bloat.
Bloating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bloat.
Bloat (v. t.) To make turgid, as with water or air; to cause a swelling of the surface of, from effusion of serum in the cellular tissue, producing a morbid enlargement, often accompanied with softness.
Bloat (v. t.) To inflate; to puff up; to make vain.
Bloat (v. i.) To grow turgid as by effusion of liquid in the cellular tissue; to puff out; to swell.
Bloat (a.) Bloated.
Bloat (n.) A term of contempt for a worthless, dissipated fellow.
Bloat (v. t.) To dry (herrings) in smoke. See Blote.
Bloated (p. a.) Distended beyond the natural or usual size, as by the presence of water, serum, etc.; turgid; swollen; as, a bloated face. Also, puffed up with pride; pompous.
Bloatedness (n.) The state of being bloated.
Bloater (n.) The common herring, esp. when of large size, smoked, and half dried; -- called also bloat herring.
Blob (n.) Something blunt and round; a small drop or lump of something viscid or thick; a drop; a bubble; a blister.
Blob (n.) A small fresh-water fish (Uranidea Richardsoni); the miller's thumb.
Blobber (n.) A bubble; blubber.
Blobber-lipped (a.) Having thick lips.
Blocage (n.) The roughest and cheapest sort of rubblework, in masonry.
Block (v. t.) A piece of wood more or less bulky; a solid mass of wood, stone, etc., usually with one or more plane, or approximately plane, faces; as, a block on which a butcher chops his meat; a block by which to mount a horse; children's playing blocks, etc.
Block (v. t.) The solid piece of wood on which condemned persons lay their necks when they are beheaded.
Block (v. t.) The wooden mold on which hats, bonnets, etc., are shaped.
Block (v. t.) The pattern or shape of a hat.
Block (v. t.) A large or long building divided into separate houses or shops, or a number of houses or shops built in contact with each other so as to form one building; a row of houses or shops.
Block (v. t.) A square, or portion of a city inclosed by streets, whether occupied by buildings or not.
Block (v. t.) A grooved pulley or sheave incased in a frame or shell which is provided with a hook, eye, or strap, by which it may be attached to an object. It is used to change the direction of motion, as in raising a heavy object that can not be conveniently reached, and also, when two or more such sheaves are compounded, to change the rate of motion, or to exert increased force; -- used especially in the rigging of ships, and in tackles.
Block (v. t.) The perch on which a bird of prey is kept.
Block (v. t.) Any obstruction, or cause of obstruction; a stop; a hindrance; an obstacle; as, a block in the way.
Block (v. t.) A piece of box or other wood for engravers' work.
Block (v. t.) A piece of hard wood (as mahogany or cherry) on which a stereotype or electrotype plate is mounted to make it type high.
Block (v. t.) A blockhead; a stupid fellow; a dolt.
Block (v. t.) A section of a railroad where the block system is used. See Block system, below.
Blocked (imp. & p. p.) of Block.
Blocking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Block.
Block (n.) To obstruct so as to prevent passage or progress; to prevent passage from, through, or into, by obstructing the way; -- used both of persons and things; -- often followed by up; as, to block up a road or harbor.
Block (n.) To secure or support by means of blocks; to secure, as two boards at their angles of intersection, by pieces of wood glued to each.
Block (n.) To shape on, or stamp with, a block; as, to block a hat.
Blockade (v. t.) 封鎖；阻塞；擋住 To shut up, as a town or fortress, by investing it with troops or vessels or war for the purpose of preventing ingress or egress, or the introduction of supplies. See note under {Blockade}, n. "Blockaded the place by sea." -- Gilpin.
Blockade (v. t.) Hence, to shut in so as to prevent egress.
Till storm and driving ice blockade him there. -- Wordsworth.
Blockade (v. t.) To obstruct entrance to or egress from.
Huge bales of British cloth blockade the door -- Pope.
Blockade (n.) 封鎖；道路阻塞；障礙物，阻礙物 [（+to）] The shutting up of a place by troops or ships, with the purpose of preventing ingress or egress, or the reception of supplies; as, the blockade of the ports of an enemy.
Note: Blockade is now usually applied to an investment with ships or vessels, while siege is used of an investment by land forces. To constitute a blockade, the investing power must be able to apply its force to every point of practicable access, so as to render it dangerous to attempt to enter; and there is no blockade of that port where its force can not be brought to bear. -- Kent.
Blockade (n.) An obstruction to passage.
Blockade (n.) (Physiology) Interference with transmission of a physiological signal, or a physiological reaction.
{To raise a blockade}. See under {Raise}.
Blockade (n.) A war measure that isolates some area of importance to the enemy [syn: {blockade}, {encirclement}].
Blockade (n.) Prevents access or progress.
Blockade (v.) Hinder or prevent the progress or accomplishment of; "His brother blocked him at every turn" [syn: {obstruct}, {blockade}, {block}, {hinder}, {stymie}, {stymy}, {embarrass}].
Compare: Stymie
Stymie (n.)【高爾夫】妨礙球；困境 [Golf.] (On a putting green) An instance of a ball's lying on a direct line between the cup and the ball of an opponent about to putt.
Stymie (n.) A situation or problem presenting such difficulties as to discourage or defeat any attempt to deal with or resolve it.
Stymie (v.) (stymies, stymieing, stymied) [With object] [Informal] 【高爾夫】對……使出妨礙球；使陷困境；妨礙 Prevent or hinder the progress of.
‘The changes must not be allowed to stymie new medical treatments.’
Stymie (v. t.) To present an obstacle to : stand in the way of.
// stymied by red tape.
Stymie (v. t.) To hinder, block, or thwart.
Blockade (v.) Render unsuitable for passage; "block the way"; "barricade the streets"; "stop the busy road" [syn: {barricade}, {block}, {blockade}, {stop}, {block off}, {block up}, {bar}].
Blockade (v.) Obstruct access to [syn: {blockade}, {block off}].
Blockade (v.) Impose a blockade on [syn: {blockade}, {seal off}].
Blockaded (imp. & p. p.) of Blockade.
Blockading (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Blockade.
Blockader (n.) One who blockades.
Blockader (n.) A vessel employed in blockading.
Blockage (n.) The act of blocking up; the state of being blocked up.
Block book () A book printed from engraved wooden blocks instead of movable types.
Blockbuster (n.) 巨型炸彈 A large bomb used to demolish extensive areas (as a city block).
Blockbuster (n.) An unusually successful hit with widespread popularity and huge sales (especially a movie or play or recording or novel) [syn: {blockbuster}, {megahit}, {smash hit}].
Blockbuster (n.) [ C ] (Informal) （尤指因內容精彩而）非常成功的書（或影片） A book or film that is very successful.
// A blockbuster movie/ novel.
Blockhead (n.) A stupid fellow; a dolt; a person deficient in understanding.
Blockhead (n.) A stupid person.
Blockheaded (a.) Stupid; dull.
Blockheadism (n.) That which characterizes a blockhead; stupidity.
Blockhouse (n.) An edifice or structure of heavy timbers or logs for military defense, having its sides loopholed for musketry, and often an upper story projecting over the lower, or so placed upon it as to have its sides make an angle wit the sides of the lower story, thus enabling the defenders to fire downward, and in all directions; -- formerly much used in America and Germany.
Blockhouse (n.) A house of squared logs.
Blocking (n.) The act of obstructing, supporting, shaping, or stamping with a block or blocks.
Blocking (n.) Blocks used to support (a building, etc.) temporarily.
Blocking course () The finishing course of a wall showing above a cornice.
Blockish (a.) Like a block; deficient in understanding; stupid; dull.
Blocklike (a.) Like a block; stupid.
Block tin () See under Tin.
Bloedite (n.) A hydrous sulphate of magnesium and sodium.
Blog (n.) [ C ] (B1) 網路日誌，博客，部落格 A regular record of your thoughts, opinions, or experiences that you put on the internet for other people to read.
// She writes a food blog in which she shares recipes, tips, and restaurant reviews.
// I read about it in/ on a blog.
Blog (v.) [ I ] (B1) 寫部落格 To write or add material to a blog.
// She blogs about fashion.
Blogger (n.) [ C ] (B1) 寫部落格的人 Someone who writes a blog.
// Political bloggers.
Bloggable (a.) Suitable or sufficiently interesting as a topic for a blog.
// I started subscribing to the journal in the hope of finding bloggable material in there.
Bloggable (a.) Interesting, enjoyable, or entertaining enough to be a topic for a blog or blog post
Blomary (n.) See Bloomery.
Bloncket (a.) Alt. of Blonket.
Blonket (a.) Gray; bluish gray.
Blond (a.) Alt. of Blonde.
Blonde (a.) （人的毛髮）亞麻色的，金黃色的；（皮膚）白皙的 Of a fair color; light-colored; as, blond hair; a blond complexion.
Blonde (n.) [F.] 白膚金髮碧眼的人 [C] A person of very fair complexion, with light hair and light blue eyes. [Written also blond.]
Blonde (n.) [So called from its color.] A kind of silk lace originally of the color of raw silk, now sometimes dyed; -- called also blond lace.
Blond (a.) Being or having light colored skin and hair and usually blue or grey eyes; "blond Scandinavians"; "a house full of light-haired children" [syn: blond, blonde, light-haired] [ant: brunet, brunette].
Blond (n.) A person with fair skin and hair [syn: blond, blonde].
Blond (n.) A light grayish yellow to near white [syn: blond, blonde].
Blonde (a.) (Also blond) (A2) 有淺黃色（或金色）頭髮的 With pale yellow or gold hair.
// Blonde hair/ highlights.
// A blonde woman/ a blond man.
Blonde (n.) [ C ] 金髮女郎 A woman with pale yellow or gold hair.
// Who's the blonde talking to Bob?
Blond metal () A variety of clay ironstone, in Staffordshire, England, used for making tools.
Blondness (n.) The state of being blond.
Blood (n.) The fluid which circulates in the principal vascular system of animals, carrying nourishment to all parts of the body, and bringing away waste products to be excreted. See under Arterial.
Note: The blood consists of a liquid, the plasma, containing minute particles, the blood corpuscles. In the invertebrate animals it is usually nearly colorless, and contains only one kind of corpuscles; but in all vertebrates, except Amphioxus, it contains some colorless corpuscles, with many more which are red and give the blood its uniformly red color. See Corpuscle, Plasma.
Blood (n.) Relationship by descent from a common ancestor; consanguinity; kinship.
To share the blood of Saxon royalty. -- Sir W. Scott.
A friend of our own blood. -- Waller.
Half blood (Law), Relationship through only one parent.
Whole blood, Relationship through both father and mother.
In American Law, blood includes both half blood, and whole blood. -- Bouvier. -- Peters.
Blood (n.) Descent; lineage; especially, honorable birth; the highest royal lineage.
Give us a prince of blood, a son of Priam. -- Shak.
I am a gentleman of blood and breeding. -- Shak.
Blood (n.) (Stock Breeding) Descent from parents of recognized breed; excellence or purity of breed.
Note: In stock breeding half blood is descent showing one half only of pure breed. Blue blood, full blood, or warm blood, is the same as blood.
Blood (n.) The fleshy nature of man.
Nor gives it satisfaction to our blood. -- Shak.
Blood (n.) The shedding of blood; the taking of life, murder; manslaughter; destruction.
So wills the fierce, avenging sprite, Till blood for blood atones. -- Hood.
Blood (n.) A bloodthirsty or murderous disposition. [R.]
He was a thing of blood, whose every motion Was timed with dying cries. -- Shak.
Blood (n.) Temper of mind; disposition; state of the passions; -- as if the blood were the seat of emotions.
When you perceive his blood inclined to mirth. -- Shak.
Note: Often, in this sense, accompanied with bad, cold, warm, or other qualifying word. Thus, to commit an act in cold blood, is to do it deliberately, and without sudden passion; to do it in bad blood, is to do it in anger. Warm blood denotes a temper inflamed or irritated. To warm or heat the blood is to excite the passions. Qualified by up, excited feeling or passion is signified; as, my blood was up.
Blood (n.) A man of fire or spirit; a fiery spark; a gay, showy man; a rake.
Seest thou not . . . how giddily 'a turns about all the hot bloods between fourteen and five and thirty? -- Shak.
It was the morning costume of a dandy or blood. -- Thackeray.
Blood (n.) The juice of anything, especially if red.
He washed . . . his clothes in the blood of grapes. -- Gen. xiix. 11.
Note: Blood is often used as an adjective, and as the first part of self-explaining compound words; as, blood-bespotted, blood-bought, blood-curdling, blood-dyed, blood-red, blood-spilling, blood-stained, blood-warm, blood-won.
Blood baptism (Eccl. Hist.), The martyrdom of those who had not been baptized. They were considered as baptized in blood, and this was regarded as a full substitute for literal baptism.
Blood blister, A blister or bleb containing blood or bloody serum, usually caused by an injury.
Blood brother, Brother by blood or birth.
Blood clam (Zool.), A bivalve mollusk of the genus Arca and allied genera, esp. Argina pexata of the American coast.
So named from the color of its flesh.
Blood corpuscle. See Corpuscle.
Blood crystal (Physiol.), One of the crystals formed by the separation in a crystalline form of the h[ae]moglobin of the red blood corpuscles; h[ae]matocrystallin. All blood does not yield blood crystals.
Blood heat, Heat equal to the temperature of human blood, or about 981/2 [deg] Fahr.
Blood horse, A horse whose blood or lineage is derived from the purest and most highly prized origin or stock.
Blood money. See in the Vocabulary.
Blood orange, An orange with dark red pulp.
Blood poisoning (Med.), A morbid state of the blood caused by the introduction of poisonous or infective matters from without, or the absorption or retention of such as are produced in the body itself; tox[ae]mia.
Blood pudding, A pudding made of blood and other materials.
Blood relation, One connected by blood or descent.
Blood spavin. See under Spavin.
Blood vessel. See in the Vocabulary.
Blue blood, The blood of noble or aristocratic families, which, according to a Spanish prover, has in it a tinge of blue; -- hence, a member of an old and aristocratic family.
Flesh and blood. (a) A blood relation, esp. a child.
Flesh and blood. (b) Human nature.
In blood (Hunting), In a state of perfect health and vigor. -- Shak.
To let blood. See under Let.
Prince of the blood, The son of a sovereign, or the issue of a royal family. The sons, brothers, and uncles of the sovereign are styled princes of the blood royal; and the daughters, sisters, and aunts are princesses of the blood royal.
Blooded (imp. & p. p.) of Blood.
Blooding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Blood.
Blood (v. t.) To bleed. [Obs.] -- Cowper.
Blood (v. t.) To stain, smear or wet, with blood. [Archaic]
Reach out their spears afar, And blood their points. -- Dryden.
Blood (v. t.) To give (hounds or soldiers) a first taste or sight of blood, as in hunting or war.
It was most important too that his troops should be blooded. -- Macaulay.
Blood (v. t.) To heat the blood of; to exasperate. [Obs.]
The auxiliary forces of the French and English were much blooded one against another. -- Bacon.
Blood (n.) The fluid (red in vertebrates) that is pumped through the body by the heart and contains plasma, blood cells, and platelets; "blood carries oxygen and nutrients to the tissues and carries away waste products"; "the ancients believed that blood was the seat of the emotions".
Blood (n.) Temperament or disposition; "a person of hot blood".
Blood (n.) A dissolute man in fashionable society [syn: rake, rakehell, profligate, rip, blood, roue].
Blood (n.) The descendants of one individual; "his entire lineage has been warriors" [syn: lineage, line, line of descent, descent, bloodline, blood line, blood, pedigree, ancestry, origin, parentage, stemma, stock].
Blood (n.) People viewed as members of a group; "we need more young blood in this organization".
Blood (v.) Smear with blood, as in a hunting initiation rite, where the face of a person is smeared with the blood of the kill.
Blood, () As food, prohibited in Gen. 9:4, where the use of animal food is first allowed. Comp. Deut. 12:23; Lev. 3:17; 7:26; 17:10-14. The injunction to abstain from blood is renewed in the decree of the council of Jerusalem (Acts 15:29). It has been held by some, and we think correctly, that this law of prohibition was only ceremonial and temporary; while others regard it as still binding on all. Blood was eaten by the Israelites after the battle of Gilboa (1 Sam. 14:32-34).
Blood, () The blood of sacrifices was caught by the priest in a basin, and then sprinkled seven times on the altar; that of the passover on the doorposts and lintels of the houses (Ex. 12; Lev. 4:5-7; 16:14-19). At the giving of the law (Ex. 24:8) the blood of the sacrifices was sprinkled on the people as well as on the altar, and thus the people were consecrated to God, or entered into covenant with him, hence the blood of the covenant (Matt. 26:28; Heb. 9:19, 20; 10:29; 13:20).
Blood, () Human blood. The murderer was to be punished (Gen. 9:5). The blood of the murdered "crieth for vengeance" (Gen. 4:10). The "avenger of blood" was the nearest relative of the murdered, and he was required to avenge his death (Num. 35:24, 27). No satisfaction could be made for the guilt of murder (Num. 35:31).
Blood, () Blood used metaphorically to denote race (Acts 17:26), and as a symbol of slaughter (Isa. 34:3). To "wash the feet in blood" means to gain a great victory (Ps. 58:10). Wine, from its red colour, is called "the blood of the grape" (Gen. 49:11). Blood and water issued from our Saviour's side when it was pierced by the Roman soldier (John 19:34). This has led pathologists to the conclusion that the proper cause of Christ's death was rupture of the heart. (Comp. Ps. 69:20.)
BLOOD, () kindred. This word, in the law sense, is used to signify relationship, stock, or family; as, of the blood of the ancestor. 1 Roper on Leg. 103; 1 Supp. to Ves. jr. 365. In a more extended sense, it means kindred generally. Bac. Max. Reg. 18.
BLOOD, () Brothers and sisters are said to be of the whole blood, (q. v.) if they have the same father and mother of the half blood, (q. v.) if they have only one parent in common. 5 Whart. Rep. 477.
Bloodbird (n.) (Zool.) An Australian honeysucker ({Myzomela sanguineolata); -- so called from the bright red color of the male bird.
Bloodbird (n.) An Australian honeyeater ({Myzomela sanguinolenta) having the head, neck, breast, and back bright scarlet, the wings and tail black, and the under parts buff.
Blood-boltered (a.) Having the hair matted with clotted blood. [Obs. & R.]
The blood-boltered Banquo smiles upon me. -- Shak.
Bloodcurdling (a.) 恐怖的，令人毛骨悚然的 Cauasing a feeling of extreme fear. [syn: {hair-raising}].
// A bloodcurdling story/ scream.
Compare: Hair-raising
Hair-raising (a.) 令人毛骨悚然的，驚險的 Very frightening.
// She gave a hair-raising account of her escape through the desert.
Blooded (a.) Having pure blood, or a large admixture or pure blood; of approved breed; of the best stock.
Note: Used also in composition in phrases indicating a particular condition or quality of blood; as, cold-blooded; warm-blooded.
Blooded (a.) Of unmixed ancestry; "full-blooded Native American"; "blooded Jersies" [syn: full-blooded, full-blood, blooded].
Bloodflower (n.) (Bot.) A genus of bulbous plants, natives of Southern Africa, named H[ae]manthus, of the Amaryllis family. The juice of H[ae]manthus toxicarius is used by the Hottentots to poison their arrows.
Bloodguilty (a.) Guilty of murder or bloodshed. "A bloodguilty life." -- Fairfax. -- Blood"guilt`i*ness, n. -- Blood"guilt`less, a.
Bloodguilty (a.) Guilty of murder or bloodshed.
Bloodhound (n.) A breed of large and powerful dogs, with long, smooth, and pendulous ears, and remarkable for acuteness of smell. It is employed to recover game or prey which has escaped wounded from a hunter, and for tracking criminals. Formerly it was used for pursuing runaway slaves. Other varieties of dog are often used for the same purpose and go by the same name. The Cuban bloodhound is said to be a variety of the mastiff.
Bloodhound (n.) A breed of large powerful hound of European origin having very acute smell and used in tracking [syn: bloodhound, sleuthhound].
Bloodily (adv.) In a bloody manner; cruelly; with a disposition to shed blood.
Bloodily (adv.) Involving a great bloodshed [ant: bloodlessly].
Bloodiness (n.) The state of being bloody.