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One who spreads reports or blazes matters abroad. "Blazers of crime." Spenser.

A cover or protection for an advanced trench or approach, formed of fascines and earth supported by a framework.

pl. Etym: [Cf. Blencher.] (Sporting)

A square, or portion of a city inclosed by streets, whether occupied by buildings or not. The new city was laid out in rectangular blocks, each block containing thirty building lots. Such an average block, comprising 282 houses and covering nine acres of ground, exists in Oxford Street. Lond. Quart. Rev.…

se of preventing ingress or egress, or the reception of supplies; as, the blockade of the ports of an enemy.

The act of obstructing, supporting, shaping, or stamping with a block or blocks.

(hounds or soldiers) a first taste or sight of blood, as in hunting or war. It was most important too that his troops should be blooded. Macaulay.

oney obtained as the price, or at the cost, of another's life; -- said of a reward for supporting a capital charge, of money obtained for betraying a fugitive or for committing murder, or of money obtained from the sale of that which will destroy the purchaser.

To spread by report; to publish; to disclose. Through the court his courtesy was blown. Dryden. His language does his knowledge blow. Whiting.

um. -- Blue gum, an Australian myrtaceous tree (Eucalyptus globulus), of the loftiest proportions, now cultivated in tropical and warm temperate regions for its timber, and as a protection against malaria. The essential oil is beginning to be used in medicine. The timber is very useful. See Eucalyptus. -- Blue jack,…

ther who sat then at that board. Clarendon. We may judge from their letters to the board. Porteus.

To transport in a boat; as, to boat goods.

Such as can be transported in a boat.

To indicate by signs, as future events; to be the omen of; to portend to presage; to foreshow. A raven that bodes nothing but mischief. Goldsmith. Good onset bodes good end. Spenser.

Portentous; ominous. Carlyle.

A close-fitting outer waist or vest forming the upper part of a woman's dress, or a portion of it. Her bodice half way she unlaced. Prior.

pal part, as of a tree, army, country, etc. Who set the body and the limbs Of this great sport together Shak. The van of the king's army was led by the general; . . . in the body was the king and the prince. Clarendon. Rivers that run up into the body of Italy. Addison.

Retinue; attendance; following. Bp. Porteus.

A four-wheeled truck, having a certain amount of play around a vertical axis, used to support in part a locomotive on a railway track.

A long pillow or cushion, used to support the head of a person lying on a bed; -- generally laid under the pillows. And here I'll fling the pillow, there the bolster, This way the coverlet, another way the sheets. Shak.