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Whitened; make white. Let their bleached bones, and blood's unbleaching stain, Long mark the battlefield with hideous awe. Byron.

Without color; pale; pallid. [Obs.] When she came out she looked as pale and as bleak as one that were laid out dead. Foxe.

To emit blood; to lose blood; to run with blood, by whatever means; as, the arm bleeds; the wound bled freely; to bleed at the nose.

One who, or that which, draws blood.

Emitting, or appearing to emit, blood or sap, etc.; also, expressing anguish or compassion.

A looking aside or askance. [Obs.] These blenches gave my heart another youth. Shak.

To blink; to shine; to look. [Obs.]

confer a blessing on, -- as on food. Then he took the five loaves and the two fishes, and looking up to heaven, he blessed them. Luke ix. 16.

ntation; -- so called because of its blistered surface. Called also blistered steel. -- Blood blister. See under Blood.

An edifice or structure of heavy timbers or logs for military defense, having its sides loopholed for musketry, and often an upper story projecting over the lower, or so placed upon it as to have its sides make an angle wit the sides of the lower story, thus enabling the defenders to fire downward, and in all direction…

See Bloomery.

of a plant, or the essential organs of reproduction, with their appendages; florescence; bloom; the flowers of a plant, collectively; as, the blossoms and fruit of a tree; an apple tree in blossom.

To stain with infamy; to disgrace. Blot not thy innocence with guiltless blood. Rowe.

A light, loose over-garment, like a smock frock, worn especially by workingmen in France; also, a loose coat of any material, as the undress uniform coat of the United States army.

To flower; to blossom; to bloom. How blows the citron grove. Milton.

A blossoming; a bloom. [Obs. or Archaic] "In the blowth and bud." Sir W. Raleigh.

Suited to produce low spirits; gloomy in prospect; as, thongs looked blue. [Colloq.]

den to investigate. The Bluebeard chamber of his mind, into which no eye but his own must look. Carlyle.

Full of blushes. While from his ardent look the turning Spring Averts her blushful face. Thomson.

g 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.