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A church road (e. g., a path across fields) for funerals. [Obs.] Homilies.

Disordered in respect to the bile; troubled with and excess of bile; as, a bilious patient; dependent on, or characterized by, an excess of bile; as, bilious symptoms.

One whose occupation is to post handbills or posters in public places.

The art, act, or occupation or catching birds or wild fowls.

Jurisdiction of a bishop; episcopate. "Divine right of bishopdom." Milton.

ithout reserve or discretion. Udall. And yonder a vile physician blabbing The case of his patient. Tennyson.

ncircular and irregular forms, as felloes, gun stocks, lasts, spokes, etc., after a given pattern. The pattern and work rotate on parallel spindles in the same direction with the same speed, and the work is shaped by a rapidly rotating cutter whose position is varied by the pattern acting as a cam upon a follower wheel…

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.

To designate by blazing; to mark out, as by blazed trees; as, to blaze a line or path. Champollion died in 1832, having done little more than blaze out the road to be traveled by others. Nott.

One who whitens, or whose occupation is to whiten, by bleaching.

freely for a cause. [Colloq.] To make the heart bleed, to cause extreme pain, as from sympathy or pity.

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

o is blind; not well marked or easily discernible; hidden; unseen; concealed; as, a blind path; a blind ditch.

A term of contempt for a worthless, dissipated fellow. [Slang]

The wooden mold on which hats, bonnets, etc., are shaped. Hence: The pattern on shape of a hat. He wears his faith but as the fashion of his hat; it ever changes with the next block. Shak.

To spot, stain, or bespatter, as with ink. The brief was writ and blotted all with gore. Gascoigne.

ly or abusively. [Low] -- To blow over, to pass away without effect; to cease, or be dissipated; as, the storm and the clouds have blown over. -- To blow up, to be torn to pieces and thrown into the air as by an explosion of powder or gas or the expansive force of steam; to burst; to explode; as, a powder mill or stea…

) which grows on cheese. Brande & C. -- Blue Monday, a Monday following a Sunday of dissipation, or itself given to dissipation (as the Monday before Lent). -- Blue ointment (Med.), mercurial ointment. -- Blue Peter (British Marine), a blue flag with a white square in the center, used as a signal for sailing, to rec…

A botch; a patch. [Dial.] Whitlock.

To spring suddenly aside, or out of the regular path; as, the horse bolted.