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Having balusters. Dryden.

A row of balusters topped by a rail, serving as an open parapet, as along the edge of a balcony, terrace, bridge, staircase, or the eaves of a building.

A solution used as a vehicle in applying bronze pigments. In addition to acetote, benzine, and a little pyroxylin, it contains amyl acetate, which gives it the odor of bananas.

Barbellate with diminutive hairs or barbs.

Prolonged at the base, as certain leaves.

To make swollen and disfigured or sullied by weeping; as, her eyes or cheeks were beblubbered.

Pertaining to, or like, a beast; brutal. [R.] Animal and belluine life. Atterbury.

A cetacean allied to the dolphins.

To bespatter, as with mud. [R.] Sterne.

Decked with feathers.

To beslobber.

The dysentery, a disease in which the flux or discharge from the bowels has a mixture of blood. Arbuthnot.

To swell; to puff out, as with weeping. [Obs.]

A bubble. At his mouth a blubber stood of foam. Henryson.

Swollen; turgid; as, a blubbered lip. Spenser.

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

Like blubber; gelatinous and quivering; as, a blubbery mass.

A kind of half boot, named from the Prussian general Blücher. Thackeray.

A short stick, with one end loaded, or thicker and heavier that the other, used as an offensive weapon.

color of the clear sky, or a hue resembling it, whether lighter or darker; as, the deep, blue sea; as blue as a sapphire; blue violets. "The blue firmament." Milton.