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Speaking or writing blasphemy; uttering or exhibiting anything impiously irreverent; profane; as, a blasphemous person; containing blasphemy; as, a blasphemous book; a blasphemous caricature. "Blasphemous publications." Porteus. Nor from the Holy One of Heaven Refrained his tongue blasphemous. Milton.…

The exhaust pipe of a steam engine, or any pipe delivering steam or air, when so constructed as to cause a blast.

A blustering, talkative fellow. [Local slang, U. S.] Barllett.

Blattering.

One who blatters; a babbler; a noisy, blustering boaster.

A coat of arms; an armorial bearing or bearings. The blazonry of Argyle. Lord Dufferin.

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.

lock containing thirty building lots. Such an average block, comprising 282 houses and covering nine acres of ground, exists in Oxford Street. Lond. Quart. Rev.

A large bar of steel formed directly from an ingot by hammering or rolling, being a preliminary shape for further working.

Opening in blossoms; flowering.

n of evil; a sudden calamity; something which produces mental, physical, or financial suffering or loss (esp. when sudden); a buffet. A most poor man, made tame to fortune's blows. Shak. At a blow, suddenly; at one effort; by a single vigorous act. "They lose a province at a blow." Dryden. -- To come to blows, to enga…

Like blubber; gelatinous and quivering; as, a blubbery mass.

also bastard pennyroyal. -- Blue devils, apparitions supposed to be seen by persons suffering with delirium 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…

The berry of several species of Vaccinium, and ericaceous genus, differing from the American huckleberries in containing numerous minute seeds instead of ten nutlets. The commonest species are V. Pennsylvanicum and V. vacillans. V. corymbosum is the tall blueberry.

The act of rendering blue; as, the bluing of steel. Tomlinson.

ce, And blunders on, and staggers every pace. Dryden. To blunder on. (a) To continue blundering. (b) To find or reach as if by an accident involving more or less stupidity, -- applied to something desirable; as, to blunder on a useful discovery.

A stupid, blundering fellow.

A stupid, blundering fellow.

nd; to be windy and boisterous, as the weather. And ever-threatening storms Of Chaos blustering round. Milton.

Inclined to bluster; given to blustering; blustering. Motley.