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noxious wind; to cause to wither; to stop or check the growth of, and prevent from fruit-bearing, by some pernicious influence; to blight; to shrivel. Seven thin ears, and blasted with the east wind. Gen. xii. 6.

An heraldic shield; a coat of arms, or a bearing on a coat of arms; armorial bearings. Their blazon o'er his towers displayed. Sir W. Scott.

A coat of arms; an armorial bearing or bearings. The blazonry of Argyle. Lord Dufferin.

Emitting, or appearing to emit, blood or sap, etc.; also, expressing anguish or compassion.

A plant (Sanguinaria Canadensis), with a red root and red sap, and bearing a pretty, white flower in early spring; -- called also puccoon, redroot, bloodwort, tetterwort, turmeric, and Indian paint. It has acrid emetic properties, and the rootstock is used as a stimulant expectorant. See Sanguinaria.…

ale, unsavory, or worthless. (b) To inform against. [Colloq.] How far the very custom of hearing anything spouted withers and blows upon a fine passage, may be seen in those speeches from [Shakespeare's] Henry V. which are current in the mouths of schoolboys. C. Lamb. A lady's maid whose character had been blown upon.…

e stone, blue vitriol; sulphate of copper. -- Blue jacket, a man-of war's man; a sailor wearing a naval uniform. -- Blue jaundice. See under Jaundice. -- Blue laws, a name first used in the eighteenth century to describe certain supposititious laws of extreme rigor reported to have been enacted in New Haven; hence,…

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

Wearing a bodice. Thackeray.

The crossbeam forming the bearing piece of the body of a railway car; the central and principal cross beam of a car truck.

The clearing of bones from fish or meat.

Wearing a bonnet. "Bonneted and shawled." Howitt.

Wearing boots, especially boots with long tops, as for riding; as, a booted squire.

or tube. The bores of wind instruments. Bacon. Love's counselor should fill the bores of hearing. Shak.

One born within hearing distance of Bow-bells; a cockney. Halliwell.

An axle box, journal box, journal bearing, or bushing.

A journal bearing, so called because frequently made of brass. A brass is often lined with a softer metal, when the latter is generally called a white metal lining. See Axle box, Journal Box, and Bearing.

house of Parliament, of Congress, or of a State legislature, as, for instance, by false swearing before a committee. Mozley. Abbott. - Breach of promise, violation of one's plighted word, esp. of a promise to marry. -- Breach of trust, violation of one's duty or faith in a matter entrusted to one.

The first appearing, as of light in the morning; the dawn; as, the break of day; the break of dawn.

The act or process of generating or bearing.