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etc. -- To bind to, to contract; as, to bind one's self to a wife. -- To bind up in, to cause to be wholly engrossed with; to absorb in.

To revolve or cause to revolve; to spin. [Scot.] Sir W. Scott.

A salt of metasilicic acid; -- so called because the ratio of the oxygen of the silica to the oxygen of the base is as two to one. The bisilicates include many of the most common and important minerals.

To cause sharp pain, or smarting, to; to hurt or injure, in a literal or a figurative sense; as, pepper bites the mouth. "Frosts do bite the meads." Shak.

Causing, or fitted to cause, pain or distress to the mind; calamitous; poignant. It is an evil thing and bitter, that thou hast forsaken the Lord thy God. Jer. ii. 19.

A common name of dolomite; -- so called because it contains magnesia, the soluble salts of which are bitter. See Dolomite.

To cause to turn aside or back; as, to blanch a deer.

To cause to sound like the blare of a trumpet; to proclaim loudly. To blare its own interpretation. Tennyson.

One who blasphemes. And each blasphemer quite escape the rod, Because the insult's not on man, but God Pope.

To injure, as by a noxious wind; to cause to wither; to stop or check the growth of, and prevent from fruit-bearing, by some pernicious influence; to blight; to shrivel. Seven thin ears, and blasted with the east wind. Gen. xii. 6.

st pipe of a steam engine, or any pipe delivering steam or air, when so constructed as to cause a blast.

A blast; destruction by a blast, or by some pernicious cause. I have smitten you with blasting and mildew. Amos iv. 9.

A sudden stroke or injury produced by some destructive cause. [Obs.] Shak.

Causing or caused by dimness of sight; dim. Power to cheat the eye with blear illusion. Milton.

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.

So as to cause blight.

The dazzling whiteness about the horizon caused by the reflection of light from fields of ice at sea; ice blink.

s. -- 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.

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.

Any obstruction, or cause of obstruction; a stop; a hindrance; an obstacle; as, a block in the way.