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In a bland manner; mildly; suavely.

In a blank manner; without expression; vacuously; as, to stare blankly. G. Eliot.

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

In a blasphemous manner.

ous blowing to which one charge of ore or metal is subjected in a furnace; as, to melt so many tons of iron at a blast.

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

In a blatant manner.

The art or act of describing or depicting heraldic bearings in the proper language or manner. Peacham.

d one ewe lamb of the first year without blemish. Lev. xiv. 10. The reliefs of an envious man are those little blemishes and imperfections that discover themselves in an illustrious character. Spectator.

Used euphemistically, ironically, or intensively. Not a blessed man came to set her [a boat] free. R. D. Blackmore.

a benediction; a wish of happiness pronounces. This is the blessing, where with Moses the man of God blessed the children of Israel. Deut. xxxiii. 1.

This vapor] blasts vegetables, blights corn and fruit, and is sometimes injurious even to man. Woodward.

In a blithe manner.

the highest royal lineage. Give us a prince of blood, a son of Priam. Shak. I am a gentleman of blood and breeding. Shak.

In a bloody manner; cruelly; with a disposition to shed blood.

One who sheds blood; a manslayer; a murderer.

One who sheds blood; a cruel, bloodthirsty man; one guilty of bloodshed; a murderer. [Obs.] Shak.

(Sanguinaria Canadensis), and to an extensive order of plants (Hæmodoraceæ), the roots of many species of which contain a red coloring matter useful in dyeing.

e blood of a deer, which, in the old forest laws of England, was sufficient evidence of a man's trespass in the forest against venison. Jacob.

In a blooming manner.