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A canvas for a portrait measuring 58 by 94 inches. The half bishop measures 45 of 56.

A line that touches a curve in two points.

The whole plant is poisonous, and has a taste at first sweetish and then bitter. The branches are the officinal dulcamara.

Smeared with bitumen. [R.] "The hatches caulked and bitumed." Shak.

Having two vaults or arches.

The art practiced by conjurers and witches; necromancy; conjuration; magic.

Anything inflated, empty, or unsound. "To swim with bladders of philosophy." Rochester. Bladder nut, or Bladder tree (Bot.), a genus of plants (Staphylea) with bladderlike seed pods. -- Bladder pod (Bot.), a genus of low herbs (Vesicaria) with inflated seed pods. -- Bladdor senna (Bot.), a genus of shrubs (Colutea),…

An inflammatory swelling or sore; a bulla, pustule, or blister. Blotches and blains must all his flesh emboss. Milton.

A kind of linen cloth made in Normandy, the thread of which is partly blanches before it is woven.

To grow or become white; as, his cheek blanched with fear; the rose blanches in the sun. [Bones] blanching on the grass. Tennyson.

One who, or that which, blanches or whitens; esp., one who anneals and cleanses money; also, a chemical preparation for this purpose.

Burning with a blaze; as, a blazing fire; blazing torches. Sir W. Scott. Blazing star. (a) A comet. [Obs.] (b) A brilliant center of attraction. (c) (Bot.) A name given to several plants; as, to Chamælirium luteum of the Lily family; Liatris squarrosa; and Aletris farinosa, called also colicroot and star grass.…

A looking aside or askance. [Obs.] These blenches gave my heart another youth. Shak.

One who blenches, flinches, or shrinks back.

es of aphis, or plant louse, destructive to fruit trees, infesting both the roots and branches; -- also applied to several other injurious insects.

process of letting blood or bleeding, as by opening a vein or artery, or by cupping or leeches; -- esp. applied to venesection.

f ink; especially a large or irregular spot. Also Fig.; as, a moral blotch. Spots and blotches . . . some red, others yellow. Harvey.

Marked or covered with blotches. To give their blotched and blistered bodies ease. Drayton.

Having blotches.

Characterized by blots or heavy touches; coarsely depicted; wanting in delineation. Ruskin.