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th a brush. S. W. Williams. (b) A method of printing cotton cloth and paper hangings with colors, by pressing them upon an engraved surface coated with coloring matter. -- Block system on railways, a system by which the track is divided into sections of three or four miles, and trains are so run by the guidance of ele…

Of a fair color; light-colored; as, blond hair; a blond complexion.

A kind of silk lace originally of the color of raw silk, now sometimes dyed; -- called also blond lace.

An Australian honeysucker (Myzomela sanguineolata); -- so called from the bright red color of the male bird.

A tree having the wood or the sap of the color of blood.

extensive order of plants (Hæmodoraceæ), the roots of many species of which contain a red coloring matter useful in dyeing.

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

rgans of reproduction, with their appendages; florescence; bloom; the flowers of a plant, collectively; as, the blossoms and fruit of a tree; an apple tree in blossom.

A blot or spot, as of color or of ink; especially a large or irregular spot. Also Fig.; as, a moral blotch. Spots and blotches . . . some red, others yellow. Harvey.

To talk loudly; to boast; to storm. [Colloq.] You blow behind my back, but dare not say anything to my face. Bartlett. To blow hot and cold Etym: (a saying derived from a fable of , to favor a thing at one time and treat it coldly at another; or to appear both to favor and to oppose. -- To blow off, to let steam escap…

The whale; -- so called by seamen, from the circumstance of its spouting up a column of water.

An outburst of temper or excitement. [Colloq.]

Having high color from exposure to the weather; ruddy-faced; blowzy; disordered. Huge women blowzed with health and wind. Tennyson.

Coarse and ruddy-faced; fat and ruddy; high colored; frowzy.

Having the color of the clear sky, or a hue resembling it, whether lighter or darker; as, the deep, blue sea; as blue as a sapphire; blue violets. "The blue firmament." Milton.

A salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka) of the Columbia River and northward.

a grasslike plant (Sisyrinchium anceps), with small flowers of a delicate blue color.

The common jay of the United States (Cyanocitta, or Cyanura, cristata). The predominant color is bright blue.

With a blue color. Swift.

The quality of being blue; a blue color. Boyle.