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BLEAREYEDNESS n.
The state of being blear-eyed.
BLEYME n.
An inflammation in the foot of a horse, between the sole and the bone. [Obs.]
BLEYNTE n.
of Blench. [Obs.] Chaucer.
BLICKEY n.
A tin dinner pail. [Local, U. S.] Bartlett.
BLINK-EYED a.
Habitually winking. Marlowe.
BLOOD MONEY n. 2 definitions
Money paid to the next of kin of a person who has been killed by another.
BLUE-EYE n.
The blue-cheeked honeysucker of Australia.
BLUE-EYED a.
Having blue eyes.
BLUE-EYED GRASS n.
a grasslike plant (Sisyrinchium anceps), with small flowers of a delicate blue color.
BLUEY n.
,a.Bluish. Southey.
BOCKEY n.
A bowl or vessel made from a gourd. [Local, New York] Bartlett.
BOGEY n.
A goblin; a bugbear. See Bogy.
BOLEY; BOLYE n.
Same as Booly.
BOVEY COAL n.
own lignite, burning with a weak flame, and generally a disagreeable odor; -- found at Bovey Tracey, Devonshire, England. It is of geological age of the oölite, and not of the true coal era.
BRIDGEY a.
Full of bridges. [R.] Sherwood.
BRUSH TURKEY n.
A large, edible, gregarious bird of Australia (Talegalla Lathami) of the family Megapodidæ. Also applied to several allied species of New Guinea.
BUCK-EYED a.
Having bad or speckled eyes. "A buck-eyed horse." James White.
BUCKEYE n. 2 definitions
American trees and shrubs of the same genus (Æsculus) as the horse chestnut. The Ohio buckeye, or Fetid buckeye, is Æsculus glabra. -- Red buckeye is Æ. Pavia. -- Small buckeye is Æ. paviflora. -- Sweet buckeye, or Yellow buckeye, is Æ. flava.
BULL'S-EYE n. 9 definitions
Aldebaran, a bright star in the eye of Taurus or the Bull.
BULLOCK'S-EYE n.
See Bull's-eye, 3.
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