Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter B - Page 59
Blunt (v. t.) To repress or weaken, as any appetite, desire, or power of the mind; to impair the force, keenness, or susceptibility, of; as, to blunt the feelings.
Blunt (n.) A fencer's foil.
Blunt (n.) A short needle with a strong point. See Needle.
Blunt (n.) Money.
Bluntish (a.) Somewhat blunt.
Bluntly (adv.) In a blunt manner; coarsely; plainly; abruptly; without delicacy, or the usual forms of civility.
Bluntness (n.) Want of edge or point; dullness; obtuseness; want of sharpness.
Bluntness (n.) Abruptness of address; rude plainness.
Blunt-witted (n.) Dull; stupid.
Blurred (imp. & p. p.) of Blur.
Blurring (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Blur.
Blur (v. t.) 使模糊不清，使朦朧；弄髒；玷汙 To render obscure by making the form or outline of confused and uncertain, as by soiling; to smear; to make indistinct and confused; as, to blur manuscript by handling it while damp; to blur the impression of a woodcut by an excess of ink.
But time hath nothing blurred those lines of favor Which then he wore. -- Shak.
Blur (v. t.) To cause imperfection of vision in; to dim; to darken.
Her eyes are blurred with the lightning's glare. -- J . R. Drake.
Blur (v. t.) To sully; to stain; to blemish, as reputation.
Sarcasms may eclipse thine own, But can not blur my lost renown. -- Hudibras.
Syn: To spot; blot; disfigure; stain; sully.
Blur (n.) 模糊；模糊不清的事物 [S]；汙點，汙跡 [C] That which obscures without effacing; a stain; a blot, as upon paper or other substance.
As for those who cleanse blurs with blotted fingers, they make it worse. -- Fuller.
Blur (n.) A dim, confused appearance; indistinctness of vision; as, to see things with a blur; it was all blur.
Blur (n.) A moral stain or blot.
Lest she . . . will with her railing set a great blur on mine honesty and good name. -- Udall.
Blur (n.) A hazy or indistinct representation; "it happened so fast it was just a blur"; "he tried to clear his head of the whisky fuzz" [syn: blur, fuzz].
Blur (v.) Become glassy; lose clear vision; "Her eyes glazed over from lack of sleep" [syn: film over, glaze over, blur].
Blur (v.) To make less distinct or clear; "The haze blurs the hills" [ant: focus].
Blur (v.) Make unclear, indistinct, or blurred; "Her remarks confused the debate"; "Their words obnubilate their intentions" [syn: confuse, blur, obscure, obnubilate].
Blur (v.) Make a smudge on; soil by smudging [syn: smear, blur, smudge, smutch].
Blur (v.) Make dim or indistinct; "The fog blurs my vision" [syn: blur, blear] [ant: focalise, focalize, focus, sharpen].
Blur (v.) Become vague or indistinct; "The distinction between the two theories blurred" [syn: blur, dim, slur] [ant: focalise, focalize, focus].
Blurred (a.) 模糊不清的；難辨別的；blur 的動詞過去式、過去分詞 Unable to see or be seen clearly.
‘Blurred vision.’
Blurred (a.) Not clear or distinct; hazy.
‘The blurred distinctions between childhood and adulthood.’
Blurry (a.) Full of blurs; blurred.
Blurted (imp. & p. p.) of Blurt.
Blurting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Blurt.
Blurt (v. t.) To utter suddenly and unadvisedly; to divulge inconsiderately; to ejaculate; -- commonly with out.
Blushed (imp. & p. p.) of Blush.
Blushing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Blush.
Blush (v. i.) To become suffused with red in the cheeks, as from a sense of shame, modesty, or confusion; to become red from such cause, as the cheeks or face.
Blush (v. i.) To grow red; to have a red or rosy color.
Blush (v. i.) To have a warm and delicate color, as some roses and other flowers.
Blush (v. t.) To suffuse with a blush; to redden; to make roseate.
Blush (v. t.) To express or make known by blushing.
Blush (n.) A suffusion of the cheeks or face with red, as from a sense of shame, confusion, or modesty.
Blush (n.) A red or reddish color; a rosy tint.
Blush (v.) [ I ] (B2) （通常因尷尬而）臉紅 To become pink in the face, usually from embarrassment.
// I always blush when I speak in public.
// I blush to think of what a fool I made of myself.
Blusher (n.) One that blushes.
Blushet (n.) A modest girl.
Blushful (a.) Full of blushes.
Blushing (a.) Showing blushes; rosy red; having a warm and delicate color like some roses and other flowers; blooming; ruddy; roseate.
Blushing (n.) The act of turning red; the appearance of a reddish color or flush upon the cheeks.
Blushingly (adv.) In a blushing manner; with a blush or blushes; as, to answer or confess blushingly.
Blushless (a.) Free from blushes; incapable of blushing; shameless; impudent.
Blushy (a.) Like a blush; having the color of a blush; rosy.
Blustered (imp. & p. p.) of Bluster.
Blustering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bluster.
Bluster (v. i.) To blow fitfully with violence and noise, as wind; to be windy and boisterous, as the weather.
Bluster (v. i.) To talk with noisy violence; to swagger, as a turbulent or boasting person; to act in a noisy, tumultuous way; to play the bully; to storm; to rage.
Bluster (v. t.) To utter, or do, with noisy violence; to force by blustering; to bully.
Bluster (n.) Fitful noise and violence, as of a storm; violent winds; boisterousness.
Bluster (n.) Noisy and violent or threatening talk; noisy and boastful language.
Blusterer (n.) One who, or that which, blusters; a noisy swaggerer.
Blustering (a.) Exhibiting noisy violence, as the wind; stormy; tumultuous.
Blustering (a.) Uttering noisy threats; noisy and swaggering; boisterous.
Blusteringly (adv.) In a blustering manner.
Blusterous (a.) Inclined to bluster; given to blustering; blustering.
Blustrous (a.) Blusterous.
Bo (interj.) An exclamation used to startle or frighten.
Boas (n. pl. ) of Boa.
Boa (n.) A genus of large American serpents, including the boa constrictor, the emperor boa of Mexico (B. imperator), and the chevalier boa of Peru (B. eques).
Boa (n.) A long, round fur tippet; -- so called from its resemblance in shape to the boa constrictor.
Boa constrictor (n.) 紅尾蚺 A large and powerful serpent of tropical America, sometimes twenty or thirty feet long. See Illustration in Appendix.
Boanerges (n.) Any declamatory and vociferous preacher or orator.
Boar (n.) The uncastrated male of swine; specifically, the wild hog.
Board (n.) A piece of timber sawed thin, and of considerable length and breadth as compared with the thickness, -- used for building, etc.
Board (n.) A table to put food upon.
Board (n.) Hence: What is served on a table as food; stated meals; provision; entertainment; -- usually as furnished for pay; as, to work for one's board; the price of board.
Board (n.) A table at which a council or court is held. Hence: A council, convened for business, or any authorized assembly or meeting, public or private; a number of persons appointed or elected to sit in council for the management or direction of some public or private business or trust; as, the Board of Admiralty; a board of trade; a board of directors, trustees, commissioners, etc.
Board (n.) A square or oblong piece of thin wood or other material used for some special purpose, as, a molding board; a board or surface painted or arranged for a game; as, a chessboard; a backgammon board.
Board (n.) Paper made thick and stiff like a board, for book covers, etc.; pasteboard; as, to bind a book in boards.
Board (n.) The stage in a theater; as, to go upon the boards, to enter upon the theatrical profession.
Board (n.) The border or side of anything.
Board (n.) The side of a ship.
Board (n.) The stretch which a ship makes in one tack.
Boarded (imp. & p. p.) of Board.
Boarding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Board.
Board (v. t.) To cover with boards or boarding; as, to board a house.
Board (n.) To go on board of, or enter, as a ship, whether in a hostile or a friendly way.
Board (n.) To enter, as a railway car.
Board (n.) To furnish with regular meals, or with meals and lodgings, for compensation; to supply with daily meals.
Board (n.) To place at board, for compensation; as, to board one's horse at a livery stable.
Board (v. i.) To obtain meals, or meals and lodgings, statedly for compensation; as, he boards at the hotel.
Board (v. t.) To approach; to accost; to address; hence, to woo.
Boardable (a.) That can be boarded, as a ship.
Boarder (n.) One who has food statedly at another's table, or meals and lodgings in his house, for pay, or compensation of any kind.
Boarder (n.) One who boards a ship; one selected to board an enemy's ship.
Boarding (n.) The act of entering a ship, whether with a hostile or a friendly purpose.
Boarding (n.) The act of covering with boards; also, boards, collectively; or a covering made of boards.
Boarding (n.) The act of supplying, or the state of being supplied, with regular or specified meals, or with meals and lodgings, for pay.
Boarfish (n.) A Mediterranean fish (Capros aper), of the family Caproidae; -- so called from the resemblance of the extended lips to a hog's snout.
Boarfish (n.) An Australian percoid fish (Histiopterus recurvirostris), valued as a food fish.
Boarish (a.) Swinish; brutal; cruel.
Boasted (imp. & p. p.) of Boast.
Boasting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Boast.
Boast (v. i.) To vaunt one's self; to brag; to say or tell things which are intended to give others a high opinion of one's self or of things belonging to one's self; as, to boast of one's exploits courage, descent, wealth.
By grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: . . not of works, lest any man should boast. -- Eph. ii. 8, 9.
Boast (v. i.) To speak in exulting language of another; to glory; to exult.
In God we boast all the day long. -- Ps. xliv. 8
Syn: To brag; bluster; vapor; crow; talk big.
Boast (v. t.) To display in ostentatious language; to speak of with pride, vanity, or exultation, with a view to self-commendation; to extol.
Lest bad men should boast Their specious deeds. -- Milton.
Boast (v. t.) To display vaingloriously.
Boast (v. t.) To possess or have; as, to boast a name.
To boast one's self, to speak with unbecoming confidence in, and approval of, one's self; -- followed by of and the thing to which the boasting relates. [Archaic]
Boast not thyself of to-morrow. -- Prov. xxvii. 1
Boast (v. t.) (Masonry) To dress, as a stone, with a broad chisel.
Boast (v. t.) (Sculp.) To shape roughly as a preparation for the finer work to follow; to cut to the general form required.
Boast (n.) Act of boasting; vaunting or bragging.
Reason and morals? and where live they most, In Christian comfort, or in Stoic boast! -- Byron.
Boast (n.) The cause of boasting; occasion of pride or exultation, -- sometimes of laudable pride or exultation.
The boast of historians. -- Macaulay.
Boast (n.) Speaking of yourself in superlatives [syn: boast, boasting, self-praise, jactitation].
Boast (v.) Show off [syn: boast, tout, swash, shoot a line, brag, gas, blow, bluster, vaunt, gasconade].
Boast (v.) Wear or display in an ostentatious or proud manner; "she was sporting a new hat" [syn: sport, feature, boast].
Boastance (n.) Boasting. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Boaster (n.) One who boasts; a braggart.
Boaster (n.) A stone mason's broad-faced chisel.
Boaster (n.) A very boastful and talkative person [syn: bragger, braggart, boaster, blowhard, line-shooter, vaunter].