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So as to cause blight.

See Bilimbi, etc.

Making blind or as if blind; depriving of sight or of understanding; obscuring; as, blinding tears; blinding snow.

The act of obstructing, supporting, shaping, or stamping with a block or blocks.

The finishing course of a wall showing above a cornice.

The act or process of letting blood or bleeding, as by opening a vein or artery, or by cupping or leeches; -- esp. applied to venesection.

Bloodshed. Shak.

The process of making blooms from the ore or from cast iron.

In a blooming manner.

A blooming condition.

A kind of thick, bibulous, unsized paper, used to absorb superfluous ink from freshly written manuscript, and thus prevent blots.

The act of weeping noisily. He spake well save that his blubbering interrupted him. Winthrop.

A literary lady; a female pedant. [Colloq.]

The character or manner of a bluestocking; female pedantry. [Colloq.]

The blue-winged teal. See Teal.

The act of rendering blue; as, the bluing of steel. Tomlinson.

Characterized by blunders.

In a blundering manner.

The process of mixing clay in potteries with a blunger. Tomlinson.

Showing blushes; rosy red; having a warm and delicate color like some roses and other flowers; blooming; ruddy; roseate. The dappled pink and blushing rose. Prior.