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To moisten or suffuse with a liquid. And let us bathe our hands in Cæsar's blood. Shak.

A fagot of brushwood, or other light combustible matter, for kindling fires; refuse of brushwood. [Obs. or Dial. Eng.]

Hence: To confuse; to mystify.

To becloud and confuse, as with liquor.

To muddle; to stupefy or bewilder; to confuse.

That which is given or bestowed. They almost refuse to give due praise and credit to God's own bestowments. I. Taylor.

sion, as for want of a plain path; to perplex with mazes; or in general, to perplex or confuse greatly. Lost and bewildered in the fruitless search. Addison.

In a bibulous manner; with profuse imbibition or absorption. De Quincey.

ses show broad cleavage surfaces when broken across. It melts at 507º Fahr., being easily fused in the flame of a candle. It is found in a native state, and as a constituent of some minerals. Specific gravity 9.8. Atomic weight 207.5. Symbol Bi.

To blanch; to make blank; to damp the spirits of; to dispirit or confuse. [Obs.] Each opposite that blanks the face of joy. Shak.

One in whom slight wounds give rise to profuse or uncontrollable bleeding.

separate things mixed, or the line of demarcation, can not be distinguished. Hence: To confuse; to confound. Blending the grand, the beautiful, the gay. Percival.

Red and inflamed; suffused with blood, or having the vessels turgid with blood, as when the conjunctiva is inflamed or irritated. His eyes were bloodshot, . . . and his hair disheveled. Dickens.

To do or treat in a blundering manner; to confuse. He blunders and confounds all these together. Stillingfleet.

To render obscure by making the form or outline of confused and uncertain, as by soiling; to smear; to make indistinct and confused; as, to blur manuscript by handling it while damp; to blur the impression of a woodcut by an excess of ink. But time hath nothing blurred those lines of favor Which then he wore. Shak.…

To become suffused with red in the cheeks, as from a sense of shame, modesty, or confusion; to become red from such cause, as the cheeks or face. To the nuptial bower I led her blushing like the morn. Milton. In the presence of the shameless and unblushing, the young offender is ashamed to blush. Buckminster. He would…

The round hole in the furnace of a glass manufactory through which the fused glass is taken out. Craig.

To refuse to support, as a nomination made by a party to which one has belonged or by a caucus in which one has taken part.

Kind; bountiful; benign. Which . . . Nature boon Poured forth profuse on hill, and dale, and plain. Milton.

Refuse boughs of trees; also, the clippings of hedges. [Prov. Eng.] Wright.