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One who takes pleasure in rearing or collecting rare or curious birds.

A canvas for a portrait measuring 58 by 94 inches. The half bishop measures 45 of 56.

which advantage is taken of the fact that prepared bitumen is rendered insoluble by exposure to light, as in photolithography.

A book kept for the purpose of registering the names of persons liable to censure or punishment, as in the English universities, or the English armies.

To put in a black list as deserving of suspicion, censure, or punishment; esp. to put in a list of persons stigmatized as insolvent or untrustworthy, -- as tradesmen and employers do for mutual protection; as, to blacklist a workman who has been discharged. See Black list, under Black, a. If you blacklist us, we will b…

intimidation; also, extortion of money from a person by threats of public accusation, exposure, or censure.

Deserving of censure; faulty; culpable; reprehensible; censurable; blameworthy. -- Blam"a*ble*ness, n. -- Blam"a*bly (, adv.

To censure; to express disapprobation of; to find fault with; to reproach. We have none to blame but ourselves. Tillotson.

Attributing blame or fault; implying or conveying censure; faultfinding; censorious. Chaucer. -- Blame"ful*ly, adv. -- Blame"ful*ness, n.

Aim; shot; range. [Obs.] I have stood . . . within the blank of his displeasure For my free speech. Shak.

e sensibilities deadened by excess or frequency of enjoyment; sated or surfeited with pleasure; used up.

ce, a furnace, usually a shaft furnace for smelting ores, into which air is forced by pressure. -- Blast hole, a hole in the bottom of a pump stock through which water enters. -- Blast nozzle, a fixed or variable orifice in the delivery end of a blast pipe; -- called also blast orifice. -- In full blast, in complete…

by deprivation; without sight. He that is strucken blind can not forget The precious treasure of his eyesight lost. Shak.

one person is blindfolded, and tries to catch some one of the company and tell who it is. Surely he fancies I play at blindman's buff with him, for he thinks I never have my eyes open. Stillingfleet.

An obliteration of something written or printed; an erasure. Dryden.

o blow off, to empty (a boiler) of water through the blow-off pipe, while under steam pressure; also, to eject (steam, water, sediment, etc.) from a boiler. -- To blow one's own trumpet, to vaunt one's own exploits, or sound one's own praises. -- To blow out, to extinguish by a current of air, as a candle. -- To blo…

te or open fire. (b) A machine for producing an artificial blast or current of air by pressure, as for increasing the draft of a furnace, ventilating a building or shaft, cleansing gram, etc.

Having high color from exposure to the weather; ruddy-faced; blowzy; disordered. Huge women blowzed with health and wind. Tennyson.

ion. This is different for different liquids, and for the same liquid under different pressures. For water, at the level of the sea, barometer 30 in., it is 212 º Fahrenheit; for alcohol, 172.96º; for ether, 94.8º; for mercury, about 675º. The boiling point of water is lowered one degree Fahrenheit for about 550 feet o…

A measure. See Boll, n., 2. Mortimer.