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To send forth or reflect glowing or brilliant light; to show a blaze. And far and wide the icy summit blazed. Wordsworth.

om the nose or a wound; a hemorrhage; the operation of letting blood, as in surgery; a drawing or running of sap from a tree or plant.

The act of blighting, or the state of being blighted; a withering or mildewing, or a stoppage of growth in the whole or a part of a plant, etc.

t able or disposed to see danger. Swift. -- Blind snake (Zoöl.), a small, harmless, burrowing snake, of the family Typhlopidæ, with rudimentary eyes. -- Blind spot (Anat.), the point in the retina of the eye where the optic nerve enters, and which is insensible to light. -- Blind tooling, in bookbinding and leather…

A small, burrowing, snakelike, limbless lizard (Anguis fragilis), with minute eyes, popularly believed to be blind; the slowworm; -- formerly a name for the adder. Newts and blindworms do no wrong. Shak.

The finishing course of a wall showing above a cornice.

The delicate, powdery coating upon certain growing or newly- gathered fruits or leaves, as on grapes, plums, etc. Hence: Anything giving an appearance of attractive freshness; a flush; a glow. A new, fresh, brilliant world, with all the bloom upon it. Thackeray.

The act of blowing; a roaring wind; a blast. [Obs.] A most tempestuous blore. Chapman.

eathe hard or quick; to pant; to puff. Here is Mistress Page at the door, sweating and blowing. Shak.

A blowing off steam, water, etc.; -- Also, adj.

A blowing out or excessive discharge of gas from a hole or fissure in a mine.

etal" (melted glass), and through which he blows to expand or shape it; -- called also blowing tube, and blowpipe.

s (Aspergillus glaucus) which grows on cheese. Brande & C. -- Blue Monday, a Monday following a Sunday of dissipation, or itself given to dissipation (as the Monday before Lent). -- Blue ointment (Med.), mercurial ointment. -- Blue Peter (British Marine), a blue flag with a white square in the center, used as a sign…

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.

The act or practice of rowing or sailing, esp. as an amusement; carriage in boats.

A crying out; a roaring; a bellowing; reverberation. [Obs.] The guns were heard . . . about a hundred Italian miles, in long boations. Derham.

empt to bite or seize with the mouth an apple, cherry, or other round fruit, while it is swinging from a string or floating in a tug of water.

or pivot. It is used to hold yarn or thread, as in spinning or warping machines, looms, sewing machines, etc.

A kind of long-winged hawk; -- called also bockerel, and bockeret. [Obs.]

An omen; a foreshadowing. [Obs.] The owl eke, that of death the bode bringeth. Chaucer.