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her. Sir P. Sidney. And so even now hath he divers blanchers belonging to the market, to let and stop the light of the gospel. Latimer.

t in a target, marked with a white spot; hence, the object to which anything is directed. Let me still remain The true blank of thine eye. Shak.

et. That affair of the blanketing happened to thee for the fault thou wast guilty of. Smollett.

the delivery end of a blast pipe; -- called also blast orifice. -- In full blast, in complete operation; in a state of great activity. See Blast, n., 2. [Colloq.]

A blustering, talkative fellow. [Local slang, U. S.] Barllett.

to several plants; as, to Chamælirium luteum of the Lily family; Liatris squarrosa; and Aletris farinosa, called also colicroot and star grass.

liberty, whose look sublime Hath bleached the tyrant's cheek in every varying clime. Smollett.

Whitened; make white. Let their bleached bones, and blood's unbleaching stain, Long mark the battlefield with hideous awe. Byron.

To withdraw blood from the body; to let blood; as, Dr. A. bleeds in fevers.

running or issuing of blood, as from the nose or a wound; a hemorrhage; the operation of letting blood, as in surgery; a drawing or running of sap from a tree or plant.

A tin dinner pail. [Local, U. S.] Bartlett.

ke vision difficult for and painful to; to dazzle. Her beauty all the rest did blind. P. Fletcher.

To be affected with a blister or blisters; to have a blister form on. Let my tongue blister. Shak.

shares (Stock Exchange), a large number of shares in a stock company, sold in a lump. Bartlett. -- Block printing. (a) A mode of printing (common in China and Japan) from engraved boards by means of a sheet of paper laid on the linked surface and rubbed with a brush. S. W. Williams. (b) A method of printing cotton clo…

To sound on being blown into, as a trumpet. There let the pealing organ blow. Milton.

A braggart, or loud talker. [Slang] Bartlett.

ing it, whether lighter or darker; as, the deep, blue sea; as blue as a sapphire; blue violets. "The blue firmament." Milton.

ing from the American huckleberries in containing numerous minute seeds instead of ten nutlets. The commonest species are V. Pennsylvanicum and V. vacillans. V. corymbosum is the tall blueberry.

A game at cards; poker. [U.S.] Bartlett.

A red or reddish color; a rosy tint. Light's last blushes tinged the distant hills. Lyttleton. At first blush, or At the first blush, at the first appearance or view. "At the first blush, we thought they had been ships come from France." Hakluyt.