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nything that binds; a bandage; the cover of a book, or the cover with the sewing, etc.; something that secures the edge of cloth from raveling.

Twice; -- a word showing that something is, or is to be, repeated; as a passage of music, or an item in accounts.

In the Methodist Episcopal and some other churches, one of the highest church officers or superintendents.

Somewhat; something, but not very great. My young companion was a bit of a poet. T. Hook.

To seize something forcibly with the teeth; to wound with the teeth; to have the habit of so doing; as, does the dog bite

An expression of disapprobation fir something deemed to be wrong; imputation of fault; censure. Let me bear the blame forever. Gen. xiiii. 9.

A piece of metal prepared to be made into something by a further operation, as a coin, screw, nuts.

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

A declaration of divine favor, or an invocation imploring divine favor on some or something; a benediction; a wish of happiness pronounces. This is the blessing, where with Moses the man of God blessed the children of Israel. Deut. xxxiii. 1.

Something to hinder sight or keep out light; a screen; a cover; esp. a hinged screen or shutter for a window; a blinder for a horse.

Something blunt and round; a small drop or lump of something viscid or thick; a drop; a bubble; a blister. Wright.

sheet of paper laid on the linked surface and rubbed with a brush. S. W. Williams. (b) A method of printing cotton cloth and paper hangings with colors, by pressing them upon an engraved surface coated with coloring matter. -- Block system on railways, a system by which the track is divided into sections of three or…

A blooming period or stage of development; something lovely that gives rich promise. In the blossom of my youth. Massinger.

An obliteration of something written or printed; an erasure. Dryden.

The infliction of evil; a sudden calamity; something which produces mental, physical, or financial suffering or loss (esp. when sudden); a buffet. A most poor man, made tame to fortune's blows. Shak. At a blow, suddenly; at one effort; by a single vigorous act. "They lose a province at a blow." Dryden. -- To come to b…

Something to give a bluish tint, as indigo, or preparations used by washerwomen.

) To find or reach as if by an accident involving more or less stupidity, -- applied to something desirable; as, to blunder on a useful discovery.

To grow red; to have a red or rosy color. The sun of heaven, methought, was loth to set, But stayed, and made the western welkin blush. Shak.

To foreshow something; to augur. Whatever now The omen proved, it boded well to you. Dryden.

The characteristic conduct or methods of a Bohemian. [Modern]