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A tiny mass of bioplasm, in itself a living unit and having formative power, as a living white blood corpuscle; bioblast.

Bioplasmic.

Having the sensibilities deadened by excess or frequency of enjoyment; sated or surfeited with pleasure; used up.

of, or address, with impious irreverence; to revile impiously (anything sacred); as, to blaspheme the Holy Spirit. So Dagon shall be magnified, and God, Besides whom is no god, compared with idols, Disglorified, blasphemed, and had in scorn. Milton. How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge thyse…

One who blasphemes. And each blasphemer quite escape the rod, Because the insult's not on man, but God Pope.

Speaking or writing blasphemy; uttering or exhibiting anything impiously irreverent; profane; as, a blasphemous person; containing blasphemy; as, a blasphemous book; a blasphemous caricature. "Blasphemous publications." Porteus. Nor from the Holy One of Heaven Refrained his tongue blasphemous. Milton.…

In a blasphemous manner.

guratively, of things held in high honor: Calumny; abuse; vilification. Punished for his blasphemy against learning. Bacon.

of wind. And see where surly Winter passes off, Far to the north, and calls his ruffian blasts; His blasts obey, and quit the howling hill. Thomson.

A lamp provided with some arrangement for intensifying combustion by means of a blast.

f a steam engine, or any pipe delivering steam or air, when so constructed as to cause a blast.

Blighted; withered. Upon this blasted heath. Shak.

The structureless, protoplasmic tissue of the embryo; the primitive basis of an organ yet unformed, from which it grows.

Relating to the blastema; rudimentary.

Connected with, or proceeding from, the blastema; blastemal.

One who, or that which, blasts or destroys.

A small, clear space in the segments of the ovum, the precursor of the nucleus.

A blast; destruction by a blast, or by some pernicious cause. I have smitten you with blasting and mildew. Amos iv. 9.

A sudden stroke or injury produced by some destructive cause. [Obs.] Shak.

Germinating inside the pericarp, as the mangrove. Brande & C.