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A salt having two equivalents of oxalic acid to one of the base; an acid oxalate.

Having two nucleoli.

Having two ocelli (eyelike spots); -- said of a wing, etc.

Having an eyelike spot on the wing, with two dots within it of a different color, as in some butterflies.

A kind of wood-turning lathe for making noncircular and irregular forms, as felloes, gun stocks, lasts, spokes, etc., after a given pattern. The pattern and work rotate on parallel spindles in the same direction with the same speed, and the work is shaped by a rapidly rotating cutter whose position is varied by the pat…

To utter inconsiderately. [Low] If I have anything on my mind, I have to blat it right out. W. D. Howells.

Blatant quality.

ng; brawling; clamoring; disagreeably clamorous; sounding loudly and harshly. "Harsh and blatant tone." R. H. Dana. A monster, which the blatant beast men call. Spenser. Glory, that blatant word, which haunts some military minds like the bray of the trumpet. W. Irving.

In a blatant manner.

To talk foolishly, or nonsensically. G. Eliot.

A blustering, talkative fellow. [Local slang, U. S.] Barllett.

To prate; to babble; to rail; to make a senseless noise; to patter. [Archaic] "The rain blattered." Jeffrey. They procured . . . preachers to blatter against me, . . . so that they had place and time to belie me shamefully. Latimer.

Blattering.

One who blatters; a babbler; a noisy, blustering boaster.

Senseless babble or boasting.

A senseless babbler or boaster. [Obs.] "I hate such blatteroons." Howell.

To hum; to buzz. [R.]

A humming sound; a booming. To . . . silence the bombilation of guns. Sir T. Browne.

A substance composed of ground bone, mineral matters, etc., hardened by pressure, and used for making billiard balls, boxes, etc.

A label, placed upon or in a book, showing its ownership or its position in a library.