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To injure, as by a noxious wind; to cause to wither; to stop or check the growth of, and prevent from fruit-bearing, by some pernicious influence; to blight; to shrivel. Seven thin ears, and blasted with the east wind. Gen. xii. 6.

The structureless, protoplasmic tissue of the embryo; the primitive basis of an organ yet unformed, from which it grows.

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.

To stop; to cease; to desist. [Obs.] Spenser.

Any obstruction, or cause of obstruction; a stop; a hindrance; an obstacle; as, a block in the way.

A nostril or spiracle in the top of the head of a whale or other cetacean.

A stop; a halting; delay. [Obs.]

To stop or hesitate as if suddenly frightened, or in doubt, or impeded by unforeseen difficulties; to take alarm; to exhibit hesitancy and indecision. We start and boggle at every unusual appearance. Glanvill. Boggling at nothing which serveth their purpose. Barrow.

e; to evaporate or be evaporated by the action of heat. -- To boil over, to run over the top of a vessel, as liquid when thrown into violent agitation by heat or other cause of effervescence; to be excited with ardor or passion so as to lose self-control.

Originally, a deep-toned instrument of the oboe or bassoon family; thence, a bass reed stop on the organ. The name bombardon is now given to a brass instrument, the lowest of the saxhorns, in tone resembling the ophicleide. Grove.

the obligation of a bond. Burrows. -- Bond (or lap) of a slate, the distance between the top of one slate and the bottom or drip of the second slate above, i. e., the space which is covered with three thicknesses; also, the distance between the nail of the under slate and the lower edge of the upper slate. -- Bond ti…

A method of leveling a line or surface by sighting along the tops of two or more straight edges, or a range of properly spaced poles. See 3d Bone, v. t.

A pole with a conspicuous top, set up to mark the channel in a river or harbor. [Obs.]

A toper; a guzzler. See Boozer.

Wearing boots, especially boots with long tops, as for riding; as, a booted squire.

One who boozes; a toper; a guzzler of alcoholic liquors; a bouser.

The lower part of a blast furnace, which slopes inward, or the widest space at the top of this part.

etimes with up. Sick bodies . . . to be kept and botched up for a time. Robynson (More's Utopia).

A kind of organ stop.

A toper; a boozer.