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; to abuse. You do blaspheme the good in mocking me. Shak. Those who from our labors heap their board, Blaspheme their feeder and forget their lord. Pope.

f Crinoidea found fossil in paleozoic rocks; pentremites. They are so named on account of their budlike form.

An heraldic shield; a coat of arms, or a bearing on a coat of arms; armorial bearings. Their blazon o'er his towers displayed. Sir W. Scott.

Whitened; make white. Let their bleached bones, and blood's unbleaching stain, Long mark the battlefield with hideous awe. Byron.

A distemper incident to cattle, in which their livers are affected. Crabb.

To wave; to brandish. [Obs.] And burning blades about their heads do bless. Spenser. Round his armed head his trenchant blade he blest. Fairfax.

intellectual light; unable or unwilling to understand or judge; as, authors are blind to their own defects. But hard be hardened, blind be blinded more, That they may stumble on, and deeper fall. Milton.

The solid piece of wood on which condemned persons lay their necks when they are beheaded. Noble heads which have been brought to the block. E. Everett.

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

, of the Amaryllis family. The juice of H. toxicarius is used by the Hottentots to poison their arrows.

The flower of a plant, or the essential organs of reproduction, with their appendages; florescence; bloom; the flowers of a plant, collectively; as, the blossoms and fruit of a tree; an apple tree in blossom.

Marked or covered with blotches. To give their blotched and blistered bodies ease. Drayton.

carried or moved by the wind; as, the dust blows in from the street. The grass blows from their graves to thy own. M. Arnold.

Out of breath; tired; exhausted. "Their horses much blown." Sir W. Scott.

s after bluntly giving his opinions, he would quietly lay himself asleep until the end of their deliberations. Jeffrey.

l noise and violence, as of a storm; violent winds; boisterousness. To the winds they set Their corners, when with bluster to confound Sea, air, and shore. Milton.

nted with affairs than any other who sat then at that board. Clarendon. We may judge from their letters to the board. Porteus.

ity, or exultation, with a view to self-commendation; to extol. Lest bad men should boast Their specious deeds. Milton.

start and boggle at every unusual appearance. Glanvill. Boggling at nothing which serveth their purpose. Barrow.

Of or pertaining to Bohemia, or to the language of its ancient inhabitants or their descendants. See Bohemian, n., 2.