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To confound by a loud blast or din. Trumpeters, With brazen din blast you the city's ear. Shak.

One who gives publicity, proclaims, or blazons; esp., one who blazons coats of arms; a herald. Burke.

Enjoying, or pertaining to, spiritual happiness, or heavenly felicity; as, the blessed in heaven. Reverenced like a blessed saint. Shak. Cast out from God and blessed vision. Milton.

The state of being blessed; happiness; felicity; bliss; heavenly joys; the favor of God. The assurance of a future blessedness. Tillotson. Single blessedness, the unmarried state. "Grows, lives, and dies in single blessedness." Shak.

blithesomeness; gladness; now, the highest degree of happiness; blessedness; exalted felicity; heavenly joy. An then at last our bliss Full and perfect is. Milton.

Full of, characterized by, or causing, joy and felicity; happy in the highest degree. "Blissful solitude." Milton. -- Bliss"ful*ly, adv. -- Bliss"ful*ness, n.

A square, or portion of a city inclosed by streets, whether occupied by buildings or not. The new city was laid out in rectangular blocks, each block containing thirty building lots. Such an average block, comprising 282 houses and covering nine acres of ground, exists in Oxford Street. Lond. Quart. Rev.…

king; a bluff sea captain. "Bluff King Hal." Sir W. Scott. There is indeed a bluff pertinacity which is a proper defense in a moment of surprise. I. Taylor.

A city of Italy which has given its name to various objects.

eat bombards, wherewith they threw huge stones into the air, which, falling down into the city, might break down the houses. Knolles.

) made by a government or a corporation for purpose of borrowing money; as, a government, city, or railway bond.

In England, an incorporated town that is not a city; also, a town that sends members to parliament; in Scotland, a body corporate, consisting of the inhabitants of a certain district, erected by the sovereign, with a certain jurisdiction; in America, an incorporated town or village, as in Pennsylvania and Connecticut.…

eet occupying the site of demolished fortifications. Hence: A broad avenue in or around a city.

A frequenter of a city boulevard, esp. in Paris. F. Harrison.

st; unlimited. "The boundless sky." Bryant. "The boundless ocean." Dryden. "Boundless rapacity." "Boundless prospect of gain." Macaulay.

Characteristic of the street called the Bowery, in New York city; swaggering; flashy.

A man who uses a bow; an archer. The whole city shall flee for the noise of the horsemen and bowmen. Jer. iv. 29. Bowman's root. (Bot.) See Indian physic, under Indian.

To make a breach or opening in; as, to breach the walls of a city.

The act of breathing naturally or freely; the power or capacity to breathe freely; as, I am out of breath.

Utterance; communication or publicity by words. I am sorry to give breathing to my purpose. Shak.