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Affecting unfavorably by the supposed influence of the stars; baleful. "Sideral blast." Milton.

Planet-struck; blasted. [Obs.]

The state of being siderated, or planet-struck; esp., blast in plants; also, a sudden and apparently causeless stroke of disease, as in apoplexy or paralysis. [Obs.] Ray.

These changes in the heavens, though slow, produced Like change on sea and land, sidereal blast. Milton.

A match for firing a charge of powder, as in blasting; a fuse.

To blast; to destroy the life or vigor of, as by a stroke or by some visitation. The flax and the barely was smitten. Ex. ix. 31.

To nip; to blast; to blight. [Obs.] Biron is like an envious, sneaping frost. Shak.

The outer, or parietal, one of the two lamellæ into which the vertebrate blastoderm divides on either side of the notochord, and from which the walls of the body and the amnion are developed. See Splanchopleure.

Combining forms from Gr. seed, sperm, semen (of plants or animals); as, spermatoblast, spermoblast.

Same as Spermoblast.

asses in the seminal tubules. It divides into a mass (spermosphere) of small cells (spermoblast), which in turn give rise to spermatozoids.

A spermoblast. -- Sper`ma*to"al, a. Owen.

the repeated division of a male germinal cell (spermospore), each constituent cell (spermoblast) of which is converted into a spermatozoid; a spermatogemma.

The male germinal or seminal cell, from the breaking up of which the spermoblasts are formed and ultimately the spermatozoids; a spermatospore. Balfour.

A tube or fuse for communicating fire to the chargen in blasting.

The inner, or visceral, one of the two lamellæ into which the vertebrate blastoderm divides on either side of the notochord, and from which the walls of the enteric canal and the umbilical vesicle are developed. See Somatopleure. -- Splanch`no*pleu"ric, a.

ground, and to cause the bud of the tender herb to spring forth. Job xxxviii. 27. Do not blast my springing hopes. Rowe. O, spring to light; auspicious Babe, be born. Pope.

To ram, as clay, into a blasting hole.

A heavy wind; a wind that brings a storm; the blast of a storm. Longfellow.

of; to stint, to dwarf; as, to stunt a child; to stunt a plant. When, by a cold penury, I blast the abilities of a nation, and stunt the growth of its active energies, the ill or may do is beyond all calculation. Burke.