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Cheery; gay; merry. The blithesome sounds of wassail gay. Sir W. Scott. -- Blithe"some*ly, adv. -- Blithe"some*ness, n.

To dry (herrings) in smoke. See Blote.

The common herring, esp. when of large size, smoked, and half dried; -- called also bloat herring.

A piece of hard wood (as mahogany or cherry) on which a stereotype or electrotype plate is mounted to make it type high.

A terrible bugbear.

g of flowers in general; the state of blossoming or of having the flowers open; as, the cherry trees are in bloom. "Sight of vernal bloom." Milton.

To cure, as herrings, by salting and smoking them; to bloat. [Obs.]

The act of weeping noisily. He spake well save that his blubbering interrupted him. Winthrop.

An American river herring (Clupea æstivalis), closely allied to the alewife.

To make a gross error or mistake; as, to blunder in writing or preparing a medical prescription. Swift.

A Mediterranean fish (Capros aper), of the family Caproidæ; -- so called from the resemblance of the extended lips to a hog's snout.

3. He ne'er had learned the art to bob For anything but eels. Saxe. To bob at an apple, cherry, etc. to attempt to bite or seize with the mouth an apple, cherry, or other round fruit, while it is swinging from a string or floating in a tug of water.

d essentially of hydrous silicates of alumina, or more rarely of magnesia. See Clay, and Terra alba.

The skipjack (Sarda Mediterranea) of the Atlantic, an important and abundant food fish on the coast of the United States, and (S. Chilensis) of the Pacific, and other related species. They are large and active fishes, of a blue color with black oblique stripes.

Gay; merry; frolicsome; cheerful; blithe. Be you blithe and bonny. Shak. Report speaks you a bonny monk, that would hear the matiSir W. Scott.

A long spar or beam, projecting from the mast of a derrick, from the outer end of which the body to be lifted is suspended.

Gay; merry; jovial; convivial. A boon companion, loving his bottle. Arbuthnot.

ake or sausage, made of the salted roes of the mullet, much used on the coast of the Mediterranean as an incentive to drink.

That which indicates or fixes a limit or extent, or marks a bound, as of a territory; a bounding or separating line; a real or imaginary limit. But still his native country lies Beyond the boundaries of the skies. N. Cotton. That bright and tranquil stream, the boundary of Louth and Meath. Macaulay. Sensation and refle…

oxidation at about 1600º F. in a closed space, a coating containing more or less of the ferric oxide (Fe2O3) and the subsequent change of this in a reduced atmosphere to the magnetic oxide (Fe2O4).