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The process of making blooms from the ore or from cast iron.

A kind of thick, bibulous, unsized paper, used to absorb superfluous ink from freshly written manuscript, and thus prevent blots.

To send forth a forcible current of air, as from the mouth or from a pair of bellows.

A blowing out or excessive discharge of gas from a hole or fissure in a mine.

its farther extremity, so that the waters rush in with each surge and rise in a lofty jet from the extremity.

The cleaning of the flues of a boiler from scale, etc., by a blast of steam.

Having high color from exposure to the weather; ruddy-faced; blowzy; disordered. Huge women blowzed with health and wind. Tennyson.

The fat of whales and other large sea animals from which oil is obtained. It lies immediately under the skin and over the muscular flesh.

A kind of half boot, named from the Prussian general Blücher. Thackeray.

e mantle (Her.), one of the four pursuivants of the English college of arms; -- so called from the color of his official robes. -- Blue mass, a preparation of mercury from which is formed the blue pill. McElrath. -- Blue mold, or mould, the blue fungus (Aspergillus glaucus) which grows on cheese. Brande & C. -- Blue…

The berry of several species of Vaccinium, and ericaceous genus, differing 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 parliamentary publication, so called from its blue paper covers. [Eng.]

A plant (Centaurea cyanus) which grows in grain fields. It receives its name from its blue bottle-shaped flowers.

A Scot; a Scotchman; -- so named from wearing a blue bonnet. [Poetic] Shak.

- a popular sobriquet. It is said, though the story lacks proof, to have taken its origin from the insistence of a Delaware Revolutionary captain, named Caldwell, that no cock could be truly game unless the mother was a blue hen, whence Blue Hen's Chickens came to be a nickname for the people of Delaware.…

alluring as the blue sky, or, perhaps, because designed to clear away the clouds and fogs from the simple investor's horizon. [Colloq.]

To deter (an opponent) from taking the risk of betting on his hand of cards, as the bluffer does by betting heavily on his own hand although it may be of less value. [U. S.]

A gross error or mistake, resulting from carelessness, stupidity, or culpable ignorance.

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…

Full of blushes. While from his ardent look the turning Spring Averts her blushful face. Thomson.