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The time between daylight and candle light. [Humorous]

State or condition of being blind, literally or figuratively. Darwin. Color blindness, inability to distinguish certain color. See Daltonism.

The triforium as opposed to the clearstory.

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.

To wink; to twinkle with, or as with, the eye. One eye was blinking, and one leg was lame. Pope

Beer kept unbroached until it is sharp. Crabb.

Habitually winking. Marlowe.

One who blinks with, or as with, weak eyes. Among the blind the one-eyed blinkard reigns. Marvell.

One who, or that which, blinks.

male is black and white; the female is brown; -- called also, ricebird, reedbird, and Boblincoln. The happiest bird of our spring is the bobolink. W. Irving.

Corporeality. Minsheu.

Heated to the point of bubbling; heaving with bubbles; in tumultuous agitation, as boiling liquid; surging; seething; swelling with heat, ardor, or passion. Boiling point, the temperature at which a fluid is converted into vapor, with the phenomena of ebullition. This is different for different liquids, and for the sam…

With boiling or ebullition. And lakes of bitumen rise boiling higher. Byron.

A tree from which the branches have been cut; a pollard.

A kind of muslin used for the covers of books.

The employment of selling books.

The act or the process of putting anything into bottles (as beer, mineral water, etc.) and corking the bottles.

used to keep the weather edge of the sail tight forward, when the ship is closehauled. Bowline bridles, the ropes by which the bowline is fastened to the leech of the sail. -- Bowline knot. See Illust. under Knot. -- On a bowline, close-hauled or sailing close to the wind; -- said of a ship.

The act of playing at or rolling bowls, or of rolling the ball at cricket; the game of bowls or of tenpins. Bowling alley, a covered place for playing at bowls or tenpins. -- Bowling green, a level piece of greensward or smooth ground for bowling, as the small park in lower Broadway, New York, where the Dutch of New A…

A method of going from one tack to another. See Boxhaul.