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Cheery; gay; merry. The blithesome sounds of wassail gay. Sir W. Scott. -- Blithe"some*ly, adv. -- Blithe"some*ness, n.

d on the linked surface and rubbed with a brush. S. W. Williams. (b) A method of printing cotton cloth and paper hangings with colors, by pressing them upon an engraved surface coated with coloring matter. -- Block system on railways, a system by which the track is divided into sections of three or four miles, and tra…

m a common ancestor; consanguinity; kinship. To share the blood of Saxon royalty. Sir W. Scott. A friend of our own blood. Waller. Half blood (Law), relationship through only one parent. -- Whole blood, relationship through both father and mother. In American Law, blood includes both half blood, and whole blood. Bouvi…

r of a plant; an expanded bud; flowers, collectively. The rich blooms of the tropics. Prescott.

To put out of breath; to cause to blow from fatigue; as, to blow a horse. Sir W. Scott.

Out of breath; tired; exhausted. "Their horses much blown." Sir W. Scott.

A broad, flat Scottish cap of blue woolen, or one waring such cap; a Scotchman.

A Scot; a Scotchman; -- so named from wearing a blue bonnet. [Poetic] Shak.

One of a class of paupers or pensioners, or licensed beggars, in Scotland, to whim annually on the king's birthday were distributed certain alms, including a blue gown; a beadsman.

A nickname for a Nova Scotian.

A Nova Scotian; also, a Nova Scotian ship (called also Blue"nos`er); a Nova Scotian potato, etc.

a bluff answer; a bluff manner of talking; a bluff sea captain. "Bluff King Hal." Sir W. Scott. There is indeed a bluff pertinacity which is a proper defense in a moment of surprise. I. Taylor.

A kind of cotton lace which is wrought by machines, and not by hand. [Sometimes written bobbin net.]The English machine-made net is now confined to point net, warp net, and bobbin net, so called from the peculiar construction of the machines by which they are produced. Tomlinsom.

A bid; an offer. [Obs. or Dial.] Sir W. Scott

A small Scotch coin worth about one sixth of an English penny. Sir W. Scott.

egislative body; a clerical body. A numerous body led unresistingly to the slaughter. Prescott.

d mire. At another time, he was bogged up to the middle in the slough of Lochend. Sir W. Scott.

, in the wall of a house, for giving, occasionally, air or light; also, a small closet. [Scot.] Open the bole wi'speed, that I may see if this be the right Lord Geraldin. Sir W. Scott.

The pod or capsule of a plant, as of flax or cotton; a pericarp of a globular form.

The larva of a moth (Heliothis armigera) which devours the bolls or unripe pods of the cotton plant, often doing great damage to the crops.