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One whose employment it is to catch birds; a fowler.

One who, or that which, frightens away or turns aside. [Obs.] And Gynecia, a blancher, which kept the dearest deer from her. Sir P. Sidney. And so even now hath he divers blanchers belonging to the market, to let and stop the light of the gospel. Latimer.

One who uses blandishments.

The hollow globe or sphere formed by the arrangement of the blastomeres on the periphery of an impregnated ovum.

To talk foolishly, or nonsensically. G. Eliot.

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

One who whitens, or whose occupation is to whiten, by bleaching.

A place or an establishment where bleaching is done.

One who, or that which, scares another; specifically, a person stationed to prevent the escape of the deer, at a hunt. See Blancher. [Obs.]

A kind of half boot, named from the Prussian general Blücher. Thackeray.

One that blushes.

A play among children, in which a cherry, hung so as to bob against the mouth, is to be caught with the teeth.

One who mends or patches, esp. a tailor or cobbler. Shak.

Bungling; awkward. [R.]

A botching, or that which is done by botching; clumsy or careless workmanship.

To annoy; to trouble; to worry; to perplex. See Pother.

The act of bothering, or state of being bothered; cause of trouble; perplexity; annoyance; vexation. [Colloq.]

One who bothers.

Vexatious; causing bother; causing trouble or perplexity; troublesome.

To impregnate with a preservative solution of copper sulphate, as timber, railroad ties, etc.