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Consisting of two pyramids placed base to base; having a pyramid at each of the extremities of a prism, as in quartz crystals.

An aspect of the planets when they are distant from each other by twice the fifth part of a great circle -- that is, twice 72 degrees.

8 m. 46 s.) above 365 days. But one day added every four years is equivalent to six hours each year, which is 11 m. 14 s. more than the excess of the real year. Hence, it is necessary to suppress the bissextile day at the end of every century which is not divisible by 400, while it is retained at the end of those which…

ud. [Colloq.] The baser methods of getting money by fraud and bite, by deceiving and overreaching. Humorist.

A friar of the Dominican order; -- called also predicant and preaching friar; in France, Jacobin. Also, sometimes, a Benedictine.

ccurred, as: In England, December 6, 1745, when the news of the landing of the Pretender reached London, or May 11, 1866, when a financial panic commenced. In the United States, September 24, 1869, and September 18, 1873, on which financial panics began.

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

An instrument for measuring the bleaching power of chloride of lime and potash; a chlorometer. Ure.

To blanch; to make blank; to damp the spirits of; to dispirit or confuse. [Obs.] Each opposite that blanks the face of joy. Shak.

One who blasphemes. And each blasphemer quite escape the rod, Because the insult's not on man, but God Pope.

enseless 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.

To blazon. [Obs.] Peacham.

rt or act of describing or depicting heraldic bearings in the proper language or manner. Peacham.

Same as Blazon, 3. The principles of blazonry. Peacham.

r The common growth of earth, the foodful ear. Wordsworth. At daybreak, on the bleak sea beach. Longfellow.

To mingle; to mix; to unite intimately; to pass or shade insensibly into each other, as colors. There is a tone of solemn and sacred feeling that blends with our conviviality. Irving.

d of laying on different tints so that they may mingle together while wet, and shade into each other insensibly. Weale.

k, a. -- Blind level (Mining), a level or drainage gallery which has a vertical shaft at each end, and acts as an inverted siphon. Knight. -- Blind nettle (Bot.), dead nettle. See Dead nettle, under Dead. -- Blind shell (Gunnery), a shell containing no charge, or one that does not explode. -- Blind side, the side w…

vided into separate houses or shops, or a number of houses or shops built in contact with each other so as to form one building; a row of houses or shops.

To stain, smear or wet, with blood. [Archaic] Reach out their spears afar, And blood their points. Dryden.