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bladder; -- applied especially to the urinary bladder, either within the animal, or when taken out and inflated with air.

To take the color out of, and make white; to bleach; as, to blanch linen; age has blanched his hair.

To take the wind out of the sails of (another vessel) by sailing to windward of her. Blanket cattle. See Belted cattle, under Belted.

To let blood from; to take or draw blood from, as by opening a vein.

rs imperfect that which is otherwise well formed; that which impairs reputation. He shall take two he lambs without blemish, and one ewe lamb of the first year without blemish. Lev. xiv. 10. The reliefs of an envious man are those little blemishes and imperfections that discover themselves in an illustrious character.…

or to. The quality of mercy is . . . twice blest; It blesseth him that gives and him that takes. Shak. It hath pleased thee to bless the house of thy servant, that it may continue forever before thee. 1 Chron. xvii. 27 (R. V. )

es, found in the waters of the Mammoth Cave, in Kentucky. Related fishes from other caves take the same name.

The clouded appearance which varnish sometimes takes upon the surface of a picture.

To take a blot; as, this paper blots easily.

A wastebook, in which entries of transactions are made as they take place.

a wind instrument; as, to blow a trumpet; to blow an organ. Hath she no husband That will take pains to blow a horn before her Shak. Boy, blow the pipe until the bubble rise, Then cast it off to float upon the skies. Parnell.

te of Delaware; -- a popular sobriquet. It is said, though the story lacks proof, to have taken its origin from the insistence of a Delaware Revolutionary captain, named Caldwell, that no cock could be truly game unless the mother was a blue hen, whence Blue Hen's Chickens came to be a nickname for the people of Delawa…

To make a gross error or mistake; as, to blunder in writing or preparing a medical prescription. Swift.

The round hole in the furnace of a glass manufactory through which the fused glass is taken out. Craig.

on. Absent in body, but present in spirit. 1 Cor. v. 3 For of the soul the body form doth take. For soul is form, and doth the body make. Spenser.

esitate as if suddenly frightened, or in doubt, or impeded by unforeseen difficulties; to take alarm; to exhibit hesitancy and indecision. We start and boggle at every unusual appearance. Glanvill. Boggling at nothing which serveth their purpose. Barrow.

an eagle (Aquila audax), which destroys lambs and even the kangaroo. -- To make bold, to take liberties or the liberty; to venture.

as a nomination made by a party to which one has belonged or by a caucus in which one has taken part.

To steal; to take possession of. [Slang]

To take off the bonnet or cap as a mark of respect; to uncover. [Obs.] Shak.