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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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2,250 words match “BLIN”

SUBLINGUAL a. 2 definitions

Situated under the tongue; as, the sublingual gland.

A glimpse or flash of the sun. [Scot.] Sir W. Scott.

TABLING n. 5 definitions

Act of playing at tables. See Table, n., 10. [Obs.] Tabling house, a gambling house. [Obs.] Northbrooke.

Shaking; tottering; quivering. -- Trem"bling*ly, adv. Trembling poplar (Bot.), the aspen.

a. & vb. n. from Tumble, v. Tumbling barrel. Same as Rumble, n., 4. -- Tumbling bay, an overfall, or weir, in a canal.

To free from blindness; to give or restore sight to; to open the eyes of. [R.] J. Webster (1607).

To free from that which blindfolds. Spenser.

WARBLINGLY adv.

In a warbling manner.

An edentate mammal, of the genus Orycteropus, somewhat resembling a pig, common in some parts of Southern Africa. It burrows in the ground, and feeds entirely on ants, which it catches with its long, slimy tongue.

A carnivorous quadruped (Proteles Lalandii), of South Africa, resembling the fox and hyena. See Proteles.

To blind by a red-hot metal plate held before the eyes. [R.]

The act of abasing, humbling, or bringing low; the state of being abased or humbled; humiliation.

A substance resembling mannite, found in the needles of the common silver fir of Europe (Abies pectinata). Eng. Cyc.

The act of bringing down or humbling. "The abjection of the king and his realm." Joe.

Blindness. [R.] Urquhart.

steep, or craggy, as rocks, precipices, banks; precipitous; steep; as, abrupt places. "Tumbling through ricks abrupt," Thomson.

Pertaining to, or resembling, an abyss; bottomless; unending; profound. Geology gives one the same abysmal extent of time that astronomy does of space. Carlyle.

Belonging to, or resembling, an abyss; unfathomable. Abyssal zone (Phys. Geog.), one of the belts or zones into which Sir E. Forbes divides the bottom of the sea in describing its plants, animals, etc. It is the one furthest from the shore, embracing all beyond one hundred fathoms deep. Hence, abyssal animals, plants,…

Belonging to or resembling the Acalephæ or jellyfishes.

ACANTHACEOUS a.

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, the family of plants of which the acanthus is the type.