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To fly off; to turn aside. [Obs.] Though sometimes you do blench from this to that. Shak.

A post-office clerk whose duty is to decipher obscure addresses.

rally with out; as, to blot out a word or a sentence. Often figuratively; as, to blot out offenses. One act like this blots out a thousand crimes. Dryden.

ime and treat it coldly at another; or to appear both to favor and to oppose. -- To blow off, to let steam escape through a passage provided for the purpose; as, the engine or steamer is blowing off. -- To blow out. (a) To be driven out by the expansive force of a gas or vapor; as, a steam cock or valve sometimes blo…

A short stick, with one end loaded, or thicker and heavier that the other, used as an offensive weapon.

f the four pursuivants of the English college of arms; -- so called from the color of his official robes. -- Blue mass, a preparation of mercury from which is formed the blue pill. McElrath. -- Blue mold, or mould, the blue fungus (Aspergillus glaucus) which grows on cheese. Brande & C. -- Blue Monday, a Monday foll…

The United States official "Biennial Register."

the public against companies that do not intend to do a fair and honest business and that offer investments that do not promise a fair return; -- so called because the promises made by some investment companies are as boundless or alluring as the blue sky, or, perhaps, because designed to clear away the clouds and fogs…

purpose by making a show of confidence in one's strength or resources; as, he bluffed me off. [Colloq.]

lushing 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.

In Persia, a punishment of capital offenders, by laying them on the back in a covered boat, where they are left to perish.

An officer who has charge of the boats, sails, rigging, colors, anchors, cables, cordage, etc., of a ship, and who also summons the crew, and performs other duties.

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

To fall off from the wind; to edge away to leeward; -- said only of inferior craft.

A darting away; a starting off or aside.

A noncommissioned officer in the British artillery. Bombardier beetle (Zoöl.), a kind of beetle (Brachinus crepitans), so called because, when disturbed, it makes an explosive discharge of a pungent and acrid vapor from its anal glands. The name is applied to other related species, as the B. displosor, which can produc…

stored under bond and in the joint custody of the importer, or his agent, and the customs officers.

To take off the bonnet or cap as a mark of respect; to uncover. [Obs.] Shak.

c., for conveyance, as by railway or steamship, or who sells passage tickets at a booking office.

One who keeps accounts; one who has the charge of keeping the books and accounts in an office.