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ed in the game of chess, bearing a representation of a bishop's miter; -- formerly called archer.

Having two vaults or arches.

A Spanish anarchistic society, many of the members of which were imprisoned in 1883.

A preparation for desserts, etc., made from isinglass, sea moss, cornstarch, or other gelatinous or starchy substance, with mild, usually sweetened and flavored, and shaped in a mold.

cartridge containing no ball. -- Blank deed. See Deed. -- Blank door, or Blank window (Arch.), a depression in a wall of the size of a door or window, either for symmetrical effect, or for the more convenient insertion of a door or window at a future time, should it be needed. -- Blank indorsement (Law), an indorse…

The pore or opening leading into the cavity of invagination, or archenteron.

To prate; to babble; to rail; to make a senseless noise; to patter. [Archaic] "The rain blattered." Jeffrey. They procured . . . preachers to blatter against me, . . . so that they had place and time to belie me shamefully. Latimer.

Complexion; color; hue; likeness; form. [Archaic] For him which is so bright of blee. Lament. of Mary Magd. That boy has a strong blee of his father. Forby.

To make the sign of the cross upon; to cross (one's self). [Archaic] Holinshed.

Blessed. "This patriarch blest." Milton. White these blest sounds my ravished ear assail. Trumbull.

To stain, smear or wet, with blood. [Archaic] Reach out their spears afar, And blood their points. Dryden.

A spot or stain, as of ink on paper; a blur. "Inky blots and rotten parchment bonds." Shak.

A blossoming; a bloom. [Obs. or Archaic] "In the blowth and bud." Sir W. Raleigh.

approval of, one's self; -- followed by of and the thing to which the boasting relates. [Archaic] Boast not thyself of to-morrow. Prov. xxvii.

A boatman. [Archaic]

One who used or managed a bombard; an artilleryman; a gunner. [Archaic]

A xassal or serf; a slave. [Obs. or Archaic]

A gallows. [Archaic] Spenser.

ilitarism and advocacy of revenge on Germany attracted to him a miscellaneous party of monarchists and Republican malcontents. -- Bou*lan"gist (#), n.

To stop. [Archaic] They stoop, they bow down together. Is. xlvi. 2