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A hearer or listener. Macaulay.

The act of listening or hearkening to. Hickes.

lace, or to keep back a crowd. No sooner were the barriers opened, than he paced into the lists. Sir W. Scott.

Resembling beads; small, round, and glistening. "Beady eyes." Thackeray.

Any vesicle or blister, especially if filled with air, or a thin, watery fluid.

An inflammatory swelling or sore; a bulla, pustule, or blister. Blotches and blains must all his flesh emboss. Milton.

To make public far and wide; to make known; to render conspicuous. On charitable lists he blazed his name. Pollok. To blaze those virtues which the good would hide. Pope.

A large vesicle or bulla, usually containing a serous fluid; a blister; a bubble, as in water, glass, etc. Arsenic abounds with air blebs. Kirwan.

blunt and round; a small drop or lump of something viscid or thick; a drop; a bubble; a blister. Wright.

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

To enter, write, or register in a book or list. Let it be booked with the rest of this day's deeds. Shak.

One who attends a pugilist in a prize fight; -- so called from the bottle of water of which he has charge.

A premium offered or given to induce men to enlist into the public service; or to encourage any branch of industry, as husbandry or manufactures. Bounty jumper, one who, during the latter part of the Civil War, enlisted in the United States service, and deserted as soon as possible after receiving the bounty. [Collog.]…

nged instruments. Bowing constitutes a principal part of the art of the violinist, the violist, etc. J. W. Moore.

One who boxes; a pugilist.

An ancient engine of war analogous to the crossbow and ballista.

A boxer; a pugilist. R. Browning. Like a new bruiser on Broughtonic aand, Amid the lists our hero takes his stand. T. Warton.

Appearing as if blistered; inflated; puckered. Bullate leaf (Bot.), a leaf, the membranous part of which rises between the veins puckered elevations convex on one side and concave on the other.

me property or properties of, by undue exposure to fire or heat; to scorch; to scald; to blister; to singe; to char; to sear; as, to burn steel in forging; to burn one's face in the sun; the sun burns the grass.

it teaches the methods of interpretation for ascertaining these occult meanings. The cabalists pretend even to foretell events by this means.