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A birch tree. [Prov. Eng.] "The silver birk." Tennyson.

ve or discretion. Udall. And yonder a vile physician blabbing The case of his patient. Tennyson.

heek blanched with fear; the rose blanches in the sun. [Bones] blanching on the grass. Tennyson.

To sound loudly and somewhat harshly. "The trumpet blared." Tennyson.

To make blind; to deprive of sight or discernment. "To blind the truth and me." Tennyson. A blind guide is certainly a great mischief; but a guide that blinds those whom he should lead is . . . a much greater. South.

stmas blocks are burning. Wither. All her labor was but as a block Left in the quarry. Tennyson.

oom; to blow; to flower. The moving whisper of huge trees that branched And blossomed. Tennyson.

the weather; ruddy-faced; blowzy; disordered. Huge women blowzed with health and wind. Tennyson.

To go or row in a boat. I boated over, ran my craft aground. Tennyson.

Abode. There that night they bode. Tennyson.

stem of a tree, or that which is like it. Enormous elm-tree boles did stoop and lean. Tennyson.

as the bittern, and some insects. At eve the beetle boometh Athwart the thicket lone. Tennyson.

Same as Boscage. Thridding the somber boskage of the wood. Tennyson.

xxvi. 10. On earth's remotest bounds. Campbell. And mete the bounds of hate and love. Tennyson. To keep within bounds, not to exceed or pass beyond assigned limits; to act with propriety or discretion.

of Break. [Arhaic] Tennyson.

Pertaining to, resembling, or full of, brambles. "In brambly wildernesses." Tennyson.

A sword, so called from its glittering or flashing brightness. [Poetic] Tennyson. Paradise, so late their happy seat, Waved over by that flaming brand. Milton.

A braid. [R.] Half lapped in glowing gauze and golden brede. Tennyson.

Brilliancy. Tennyson.

To fill to the brim, upper edge, or top. Arrange the board and brim the glass. Tennyson.