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A spreading thorny shrub or small tree (Prunus spinosa), with blackish bark, and bearing little black plums, which are called sloes; the sloe.

A kind of linen cloth made in Normandy, the thread of which is partly blanches before it is woven.

of the indorser on the back of the bill. -- Blank line (Print.), a vacant space of the breadth of a line, on a printed page; a 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 i…

One who spreads reports or blazes matters abroad. "Blazers of crime." Spenser.

To deck; to embellish; to adorn. She blazons in dread smiles her hideous form. Garth.

The state of being blemished; blemish; disgrace; damage; impairment. For dread of blame and honor's blemishment. Spenser.

id fellow; a dolt; a person deficient in understanding. The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head. Pope.

To spread by report; to publish; to disclose. Through the court his courtesy was blown. Dryden. His language does his knowledge blow. Whiting.

entucky blue grass, a species of grass (Poa pratensis) which has running rootstocks and spreads rapidly. It is valuable as a pasture grass, as it endures both winter and drought better than other kinds, and is very nutritious.

A piece of timber sawed thin, and of considerable length and breadth as compared with the thickness, -- used for building, etc.

r, 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 figure that has length, breadth, and thickness; any solid figure.

palled with thoughts of bog, or caverned pit, Of treacherous earth, subsiding where they tread. R. Jago.

. See Bohemian, n., 3. She knew every one who was any one in the land of Bohemia. Compton Reade.

To make bold; to encourage; to embolden. Ready speakers, being boldened with their present abilities to say more, . . . use less help of diligence and study. Ascham.

r baseness. Drayton. Shoddy inventions designed to bolster up a factitious pride. Compton Reade.

al, used to fasten or hold something in place, often having a head at one end and screw thread cut upon the other end.

f bone, consisting chiefly of phosphate of calcium. -- Bone lace, a lace made of linen thread, so called because woven with bobbins of bone. -- Bone oil, an oil obtained by, heating bones (as in the manufacture of bone black), and remarkable for containing the nitrogenous bases, pyridine and quinoline, and their deri…

of the bonnet varies greatly at different times; formerly the front part projected, and spread outward, like the mouth of a funnel.

ked for the valedictory. [Colloq.] Here I am booked for three days more in Paris. Charles Reade.