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A mode of tenure by the payment of a small duty in white rent (silver) or otherwise.

ich no prize is indicated. In Fortune's lottery lies A heap of blanks, like this, for one small prize. Dryden.

A small, clear space in the segments of the ovum, the precursor of the nucleus.

A small European river fish (Leuciscus alburnus), of the family Cyprinidæ; the blay. [Written also blick.]

A small variety of spaniel, kept as a pet.

e on which one is least able or disposed to see danger. Swift. -- Blind snake (Zoöl.), a small, harmless, burrowing snake, of the family Typhlopidæ, with rudimentary eyes. -- Blind spot (Anat.), the point in the retina of the eye where the optic nerve enters, and which is insensible to light. -- Blind tooling, in bo…

A small fish (Amblyopsis spelæus) destitute of eyes, found in the waters of the Mammoth Cave, in Kentucky. Related fishes from other caves take the same name.

A small, burrowing, snakelike, limbless lizard (Anguis fragilis), with minute eyes, popularly believed to be blind; the slowworm; -- formerly a name for the adder. Newts and blindworms do no wrong. Shak.

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

A shrub or small tree of southern Florida and the West Indies (Pisonia obtusata) with smooth oval leaves and a hard, 10-ribbed fruit.

A small fish of the Atlantic coast (Tetrodon turgidus); the puffer.

dark blue color, almost black. -- Blue blood. See under Blood. -- Blue buck (Zoöl.), a small South African antelope (Cephalophus pygmæus); also applied to a larger species (Ægoceras leucophæus); the blaubok. -- Blue cod (Zoöl.), the buffalo cod. -- Blue crab (Zoöl.), the common edible crab of the Atlantic coast of…

a grasslike plant (Sisyrinchium anceps), with small flowers of a delicate blue color.

A small song bird (Sialia sialis), very common in the United States, and, in the north, one of the earliest to arrive in spring. The male is blue, with the breast reddish. It is related to the European robin. Pairy bluebird (Zoöl.), a brilliant Indian or East Indian bird of the genus Irena, of several species.…

A small European bird; the blue-throated warbler.

A small open vessel, or water craft, usually moved by cars or paddles, but often by a sail.

Navigable for boats, or small river craft. The boatable waters of the Alleghany. J. Morse.

A small piece of cork or light wood attached to a fishing line to show when a fish is biting; a float.

A small pin, or cylinder, formerly of bone, now most commonly of wood, used in the making of pillow lace. Each thread is wound on a separate bobbin which hangs down holding the thread at a slight tension.

A small Scotch coin worth about one sixth of an English penny. Sir W. Scott.