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legislature of British colonies. Cowell. Committed to the custody of the Black Rod. Macaulay.

ue legs and feet, bright red comb and wattles, and white face. They are remarkable as egg layers.

opposed to whitewash; hence, figuratively, calumny. To remove as far as he can the modern layers of black wash, and let the man himself, fair or foul, be seen. C. Kingsley.

entiments are decidedly below those of his class deserves to be called a blackguard. Macaulay.

ng low with blandishment. Milton. Attacked by royal smiles, by female blandishments. Macaulay.

A streak or layer of blubber in whales.

A bursting out, or active display of any quality; an outburst; a brilliant display. "Fierce blaze of riot." "His blaze of wrath." Shak. For what is glory but the blaze of fame Milton.

arms, or a bearing on a coat of arms; armorial bearings. Their blazon o'er his towers displayed. Sir W. Scott.

Artistic representation or display.

A small European river fish (Leuciscus alburnus), of the family Cyprinidæ; the blay. [Written also blick.]

The method of laying on different tints so that they may mingle together while wet, and shade into each other insensibly. Weale.

y of blessing or adoration; heavenly; holy. O, run; prevent them with thy humble ode, And lay it lowly at his blessed feet. Milton.

A play in which one person is blindfolded, and tries to catch some one of the company and tell who it is. Surely he fancies I play at blindman's buff with him, for he thinks I never have my eyes open. Stillingfleet.

a block on which a butcher chops his meat; a block by which to mount a horse; children's playing blocks, etc. Now all our neighbors' chimneys smoke, And Christmas blocks are burning. Wither. All her labor was but as a block Left in the quarry. Tennyson.

A variety of clay ironstone, in Staffordshire, England, used for making tools.

, as in hunting or war. It was most important too that his troops should be blooded. Macaulay.

One who sheds blood; a manslayer; a murderer.

he mouths of schoolboys. C. Lamb. A lady's maid whose character had been blown upon. Macaulay.

rium tremens; hence, very low spirits. "Can Gumbo shut the hall door upon blue devils, or lay them all in a red sea of claret" Thackeray. -- Blue gage. See under Gage, a plum. -- Blue gum, an Australian myrtaceous tree (Eucalyptus globulus), of the loftiest proportions, now cultivated in tropical and warm temperate r…

To amalgamate and blend; to beat up or mix in water, as clay.