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Of pertaining to, or resembling, the family of plants of which the trumpet flower is an example.

nt of opinions which conflict with his own, as in politics or morals; one obstinately and blindly devoted to his own church, party, belief, or opinion. To doubt, where bigots had been content to wonder and believe. Macaulay.

Obstinately and blindly attached to some creed, opinion practice, or ritual; unreasonably devoted to a system or party, and illiberal toward the opinions of others. "Bigoted to strife." Byron.

In Australia, a blind channel leading out from a river; -- sometimes called an anabranch. This is the sense of the word as used in the Public Works Department; but the term has also been locally applied to mere back-waters forming stagnant pools and to certain water channels arising from a source.

An ornament in Norman work, resembling a billet of wood either square or round.

taining to billows; swelling or swollen into large waves; full of billows or surges; resembling billows. And whitening down the many-tinctured stream, Descends the billowy foam. Thomson.

Marked with spots resembling bird's eyes; as, bird's-eye diaper; bird's-eye maple.

Resembling a bird.

Having a double beak, or two processes resembling beaks. The capsule is bilocular and birostrated. Ed. Encyc.

Resembling two bucklers placed side by side.

Resembling a bishop; belonging to a bishop. Fulke.

Purblind; blinding. [Obs.] "Bisson rheum." Shak.

In the manner of or resembling a blackguard; abusive; scurrilous; ruffianly.

Having bladders; also, resembling a bladder.

line of quadrats. -- Blank tire (Mech.), a tire without a flange. -- Blank tooling. See Blind tooling, under Blind. -- Blank verse. See under Verse. -- Blank wall, a wall in which there is no opening; a dead wall.

to dim, or blur, as the sight. Figuratively: To obscure (mental or moral perception); to blind; to hoodwink. That tickling rheums Should ever tease the lungs and blear the sight. Cowper. To blear the eye of, to deceive; to impose upon. [Obs.] Chaucer.

To make blind, literally or figuratively; to dazzle; to deceive. [Obs.] Chaucer.

To blink; to shine; to look. [Obs.]

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, the blennies.

Blinded. Also (Chaucer), 3d sing. pres. Blindeth. [Obs.]