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BLUR v. 6 definitions
confused and uncertain, as by soiling; to smear; to make indistinct and confused; as, to blur manuscript by handling it while damp; to blur the impression of a woodcut by an excess of ink. But time hath nothing blurred those lines of favor Which then he wore. Shak.
BLURRY a.
Full of blurs; blurred.
BLURT v.
ulge inconsiderately; to ejaculate; -- commonly with out. Others . . . can not hold, but blurt out, those words which afterward they forced to eat. Hakewill. To blurt at, to speak contemptuously of. [Obs.] Shak.
BLUSH v. 7 definitions
on; to become red from such cause, as the cheeks or face. To the nuptial bower I led her blushing like the morn. Milton. In the presence of the shameless and unblushing, the young offender is ashamed to blush. Buckminster. He would stroke The head of modest and ingenuous worth, That blushed at its own praise. Cowper.…
BLUSHER n.
One that blushes.
BLUSHET n.
A modest girl. [Obs.] B. Jonson.
BLUSHFUL a.
Full of blushes. While from his ardent look the turning Spring Averts her blushful face. Thomson.
BLUSHING a. 2 definitions
Showing 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.
BLUSHINGLY adv.
In a blushing manner; with a blush or blushes; as, to answer or confess blushingly.
BLUSHLESS a.
Free from blushes; incapable of blushing; shameless; impudent. Vice now, secure, her blushless front shall raise. Dodsley.
BLUSHY a.
Like a blush; having the color of a blush; rosy. [R.] "A blushy color." Harvey.
BLUSTER v. 5 definitions
s wind; to be windy and boisterous, as the weather. And ever-threatening storms Of Chaos blustering round. Milton.
BLUSTERER n.
One who, or that which, blusters; a noisy swaggerer.
BLUSTERING a. 2 definitions
Exhibiting noisy violence, as the wind; stormy; tumultuous. A tempest and a blustering day. Shak.
BLUSTERINGLY adv.
In a blustering manner.
BLUSTEROUS a.
Inclined to bluster; given to blustering; blustering. Motley.
BLUSTROUS a.
Blusterous. Shak.
BOLUS n.
A rounded mass of anything, esp. a large pill.
BOROFLUORIDE n.
A double fluoride of boron and hydrogen, or some other positive element, or radical; -- called also fluoboride, and formerly fluoborate.
BUCEPHALUS n. 2 definitions
The celebrated war horse of Alexander the Great.
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