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To laud or praise greatly.

exhibited to the public; -- so named because the animals are usually placed on benches or raised platforms.

Puffed; praised. Carlyle.

obber on; to smear with spittle running from the mouth. Also Fig.: as, to beslobber with praise.

That which is given or bestowed. They almost refuse to give due praise and credit to God's own bestowments. I. Taylor.

uation of the fourth degree, or an equation in some term of which the unknown quantity is raised to the fourth power. -- Biquadratic root of a number, the square root of the square root of that number. Thus the square root of 81 is 9, and the square root of 9 is 3, which is the biquadratic root of 81. Hutton.…

Anything added to raise the sides of a ship. Bailey.

A kind of unraised bread, of many varieties, plain, sweet, or fancy, formed into flat cakes, and bakes hard; as, ship biscuit. According to military practice, the bread or biscuit of the Romans was twice prepared in the oven. Gibbon.

A white sauce of fat, broth, and vegetables, used esp. for braised meat.

To praise, or glorify; to extol for excellences. Bless the Lord, O my soul: and all that is within me, bless his holy name. Ps. ciii. 1.

A gift. [A Hebraism] Gen. xxxiii. 11.

A vesicatory; a plaster of Spanish flies, or other matter, applied to raise a blister. Dunglison. Blister beetle, a beetle used to raise blisters, esp. the Lytta (or Cantharis) vesicatoria, called Cantharis or Spanish fly by druggists. See Cantharis. -- Blister fly, a blister beetle. -- Blister plaster, a plaster des…

hich it may be attached to an object. It is used to change the direction of motion, as in raising a heavy object that can not be conveniently reached, and also, when two or more such sheaves are compounded, to change the rate of motion, or to exert increased force; -- used especially in the rigging of ships, and in tac…

An obstruction to passage. To raise a blockade. See under Raise.

a boiler. -- To blow one's own trumpet, to vaunt one's own exploits, or sound one's own praises. -- To blow out, to extinguish by a current of air, as a candle. -- To blow up. (a) To fill with air; to swell; as, to blow up a bladder or bubble. (b) To inflate, as with pride, self-conceit, etc.; to puff up; as, to blo…

minster. He would stroke The head of modest and ingenuous worth, That blushed at its own praise. Cowper.

; incapable of blushing; shameless; impudent. Vice now, secure, her blushless front shall raise. Dodsley.

Given to, or full of, boasting; inclined to boast; vaunting; vainglorious; self-praising. -- Boast"ful*ly, adv. -- Boast"ful*ness, n.

A squabble; a tumult; a noisy disturbance; as, to raise a bobbery. [Low] Halliwell.

The little rounded piece of wood, at the end of a latch string, which is pulled to raise the latch.