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One of an old and well-known Mediterranean breed of domestic fowls with glossy black plumage, blue legs and feet, bright red comb and wattles, and white face. They are remarkable as egg layers.

he north of England and south of Scotland, to certain men who were allied to robbers, or moss troopers, to be by them protected from pillage. Sir W. Scott.

swelling or sore; a bulla, pustule, or blister. Blotches and blains must all his flesh emboss. Milton.

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.

To toss in a blanket by way of punishment. We'll have our men blanket 'em i' the hall. B. Jonson.

p or class of things, rather than a number mentioned individually and having the burden, loss, or the like, apportioned among them.

The act or punishment of tossing in a blanket. That affair of the blanketing happened to thee for the fault thou wast guilty of. Smollett.

to visit with a curse; to curse; to ruin; as, to blast pride, hopes, or character. I'll cross it, though it blast me. Shak. Blasted with excess of light. T. Gray.

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

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

Loss of sensation and motion from hemorrhage or congestion in the brain. Dunglison.

A blossom; the flower of a plant; an expanded bud; flowers, collectively. The rich blooms of the tropics. Prescott.

Opening in blossoms; flowering.

Bloom; a blossoming. [Prov. Eng.] All that blooth means heavy autumn work for him and his hands. T. Hardy.

Blossomy. [Obs.] Chaucer.

To flower; to blossom; to bloom. How blows the citron grove. Milton.

Opened; in blossom or having blossomed, as a flower. Shak.

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

ar; lazulite. See Lazulite. -- Blue thrush (Zoöl.), a European and Asiatic thrush (Petrocossyphus cyaneas). -- Blue verditer. See Verditer. -- Blue vitriol (Chem.), sulphate of copper, a violet blue crystallized salt, used in electric batteries, calico printing, etc. -- Blue water, the open ocean. -- To look blue,…

A West Indian fish (Platyglossus radiatus), of the family Labridæ.