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The method of laying on different tints so that they may mingle together while wet, and shade into each other insensibly. Weale.

pon; to grant divine favor to. The quality of mercy is . . . twice blest; It blesseth him that gives and him that takes. Shak. It hath pleased thee to bless the house of thy servant, that it may continue forever before thee. 1 Chron. xvii. 27 (R. V. )

A means of happiness; that which promotes prosperity and welfare; a beneficent gift. Nature's full blessings would be well dispensed. Milton.

That which frustrates one's plans or withers one's hopes; that which impairs or destroys. A blight seemed to have fallen over our fortunes. Disraeli.

ute of the sense of seeing, either by natural defect or by deprivation; without sight. He that is strucken blind can not forget The precious treasure of his eyesight lost. Shak.

One who, or that which, blinds.

A glimpse or glance. This is the first blink that ever I had of him. Bp. Hall.

That which twinkles or glances, as a dim star, which appears and disappears. Hakewill.

One who, or that which, blinks.

to an object. It is used to change the direction of motion, as in raising a heavy object that can not be conveniently reached, and also, when two or more such sheaves are compounded, to change the rate of motion, or to exert increased force; -- used especially in the rigging of ships, and in tackles.…

That which characterizes a blockhead; stupidity. Carlyle.

de the movement of trains in a block system. The signal is often so coupled with a switch that act of opening or closing the switch operates the signal also.

rains are so run by the guidance of electric, or combined electric and pneumatic, signals that no train enters a section or block until the preceding train has left it, as in absolute blocking, or that a train may be allowed to follow another into a block as long as it proceeds with excessive caution, as in permissive…

oldiers) a first taste or sight of blood, as in hunting or war. It was most important too that his troops should be blooded. Macaulay.

Disposition to shed blood; bloodthirstiness. All that bloodiness and savage cruelty which was in our nature. Holland.

Without spirit or activity. Thou bloodless remnant of that royal blood ! Shak. -- Blood"less*ly, adv. -- Blood"less*ness, n.

One who, or that which, lets blood; a phlebotomist.

for betraying a fugitive or for committing murder, or of money obtained from the sale of that which will destroy the purchaser.

Any animal that sucks blood; esp., the leech (Hirudo medicinalis), and related species.

te or time of beauty, freshness, and vigor; an opening to higher perfection, analogous to that of buds into blossoms; as, the bloom of youth. Every successive mother has transmitted a fainter bloom, a more delicate and briefer beauty. Hawthorne.