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Fig.: To whiten; to give a favorable appearance to; to whitewash; to palliate. Blanch over the blackest and most absurd things. Tillotson.

Of a white or pale color; without color. To the blank moon Her office they prescribed. Milton.

A suffix or terminal formative, used principally in biological terms, and signifying growth, formation; as, bioblast, epiblast, mesoblast, etc.

One of the divisions of Crinoidea found fossil in paleozoic rocks; pentremites. They are so named on account of their budlike form.

Without color; pale; pallid. [Obs.] When she came out she looked as pale and as bleak as one that were laid out dead. Foxe.

To grow or make pale. Barbour.

The fluid which circulates in the principal vascular system of animals, carrying nourishment to all parts of the body, and bringing away waste products to be excreted. See under Arterial.

Pale, without redness or glare, -- said of a flame; hence, of the color of burning brimstone, betokening the presence of ghosts or devils; as, the candle burns blue; the air was blue with oaths.

a person or animal, as distinguished from the limbs and head; the main, central, or principal 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…

getable matter; wet spongy ground where a heavy body is apt to sink; a marsh; a morass. Appalled with thoughts of bog, or caverned pit, Of treacherous earth, subsiding where they tread. R. Jago.

e crossbeam forming the bearing piece of the body of a railway car; the central and principal cross beam of a car truck.

One who assists or supports another in a contest; an abettor; a backer. [Colloq.] Lord Palmerston considered himself the bottleholder of oppressed states. The London Times.

lowance of meat and drink for the tables of inferior officers or servants in a nobleman's palace or at court. [Obs.]

or art of managing the bow in playing on stringed instruments. Bowing constitutes a principal part of the art of the violinist, the violist, etc. J. W. Moore.

aquilina, common in almost all countries. It has solitary stems dividing into three principal branches. Less properly: Any fern.

A shoot or secondary stem growing from the main stem, or from a principal limb or bough of a tree or other plant.

branches; shooting our branches; extending in a branch or branches. Shaded with branching palm. Milton.

e fire is extinct. Snatching a live brand from a wigwam, Mason threw it on a matted roof. Palfrey.

tains. It is usually oval in form, and abounds in farinaceous matter, affording sweet and palatable food.

Wirt. To breast up a hedge, to cut the face of it on one side so as to lay bare the principal upright stems of the plants.