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The art practiced by conjurers and witches; necromancy; conjuration; magic.

Any preparation for making things black; esp. one for giving a black luster to boots and shoes, or to stoves.

ich, blanches or whitens; esp., one who anneals and cleanses money; also, a chemical preparation for this purpose.

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.

A piece of metal prepared to be made into something by a further operation, as a coin, screw, nuts.

very end of a blast pipe; -- called also blast orifice. -- In full blast, in complete operation; in a state of great activity. See Blast, n., 2. [Colloq.]

Lacking in perception or penetration; short-sighted; as, a blear- eyed bigot.

A running or issuing of blood, as from the nose or a wound; a hemorrhage; the operation of letting blood, as in surgery; a drawing or running of sap from a tree or plant.

Hallowed; consecrated; worthy of blessing or adoration; heavenly; holy. O, run; prevent them with thy humble ode, And lay it lowly at his blessed feet. Milton.

A declaration of divine favor, or an invocation imploring divine favor on some or something; a benediction; a wish of happiness pronounces. This is the blessing, where with Moses the man of God blessed the children of Israel. Deut. xxxiii. 1.

Any elevation made by the separation of the film or skin, as on plants; or by the swelling of the substance at the surface, as on steel.

An obliteration of something written or printed; an erasure. Dryden.

A single heat or operation of the Bessemer converter. Raymond.

iant blue flame; -- used in pyrotechnics and as a night signal at sea, and in military operations. -- Blue mantle (Her.), one of the four pursuivants of the English college of arms; -- so called from the color of his official robes. -- Blue mass, a preparation of mercury from which is formed the blue pill. McElrath.…

Something to give a bluish tint, as indigo, or preparations used by washerwomen.

tly giving his opinions, he would quietly lay himself asleep until the end of their deliberations. Jeffrey.

Ficus religiosa), which is planted close to every temple, and attracts almost as much veneration as the status of the god himself. . . . It differs from the banyan (Ficus Indica) by sending down no roots from its branches. Tennent.

and powerful serpent of tropical America, sometimes twenty or thirty feet long. See Illustration in Appendix.

To shape roughly as a preparation for the finer work to follow; to cut to the general form required.

A crying out; a roaring; a bellowing; reverberation. [Obs.] The guns were heard . . . about a hundred Italian miles, in long boations. Derham.