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or mutual protection; as, to blacklist a workman who has been discharged. See Black list, under Black, a. If you blacklist us, we will boycott you. John Swinton.

Utterly confounded or discomfited. Adam . . . astonied stood, and blank. Milton.

ils of (another vessel) by sailing to windward of her. Blanket cattle. See Belted cattle, under Belted.

bellowing. With blare of bugle, clamor of men. Tennyson. His ears are stunned with the thunder's blare. J. R. Drake.

Confounded; accursed; detestable. Some of her own blasted gypsies. Sir W. Scott.

The blue buck. See Blue buck, under Blue.

The part of a tree which lies immediately under the bark; the alburnum or sapwood.

To lose sap, gum, or juice; as, a tree or a vine bleeds when tapped or wounded.

; to flinch; to quail. Blench not at thy chosen lot. Bryant. This painful, heroic task he undertook, and never blenched from its fulfillment. Jeffrey.

See under Thistle.

aving the faculty of discernment; destitute of intellectual light; unable or unwilling to understand or judge; as, authors are blind to their own defects. But hard be hardened, blind be blinded more, That they may stumble on, and deeper fall. Milton.

Making blind or as if blind; depriving of sight or of understanding; obscuring; as, blinding tears; blinding snow.

Without sight, discernment, or understanding; without thought, investigation, knowledge, or purpose of one's own. By his imperious mistress blindly led. Dryden.

led because of its blistered surface. Called also blistered steel. -- Blood blister. See under Blood.

ct that can not be conveniently reached, and also, when two or more such sheaves are compounded, to change the rate of motion, or to exert increased force; -- used especially in the rigging of ships, and in tackles.

See under Tin.

An obstruction to passage. To raise a blockade. See under Raise.

A stupid fellow; a dolt; a person deficient in understanding. The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head. Pope.

Like a block; deficient in understanding; stupid; dull. "Blockish Ajax." Shak. -- Block"ish*ly, adv. -- Block"ish*ness, n.

ourishment to all parts of the body, and bringing away waste products to be excreted. See under Arterial.