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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)



916 words match “UTTER”

BELL v.
To utter by bellowing. [Obs.]
BEREAVE v.
To take away from. [Obs.] All your interest in those territories Is utterly bereft you; all is lost. Shak.
BEURRE n.
A beurré (or buttery) pear, one with the meas, Beurré d'Anjou; Beurré Clairgeau.
BIPUPILLATE a.
ng an eyelike spot on the wing, with two dots within it of a different color, as in some butterflies.
BITTERBUMP n.
the butterbump or bittern.
BLAB v.
To utter or tell unnecessarily, or in a thoughtless manner; to publish (secrets or trifles) without reserve or discretion. Udall. And yonder a vile physician blabbing The case of his patient. Tennyson.
BLANCHARD LATHE n.
in the same direction with the same speed, and the work is shaped by a rapidly rotating cutter whose position is varied by the pattern acting as a cam upon a follower wheel traversing slowly along the pattern.
BLANK a.
Utterly confounded or discomfited. Adam . . . astonied stood, and blank. Milton.
BLASPHEME v.
To utter blasphemy. He that shall blaspheme against the Holy Ghost hath never forgiveness. Mark iii. 29.
BLASPHEMOUS a.
Speaking or writing blasphemy; uttering or exhibiting anything impiously irreverent; profane; as, a blasphemous person; containing blasphemy; as, a blasphemous book; a blasphemous caricature. "Blasphemous publications." Porteus. Nor from the Holy One of Heaven Refrained his tongue blasphemous. Milton.…
BLAT v.
To utter inconsiderately. [Low] If I have anything on my mind, I have to blat it right out. W. D. Howells.
BLEAR a.
Dim or sore with water or rheum; -- said of the eyes. His blear eyes ran in gutters to his chin. Dryden.
BLIND n.
Something to hinder sight or keep out light; a screen; a cover; esp. a hinged screen or shutter for a window; a blinder for a horse.
BLUBBER v.
To give vent to (tears) or utter (broken words or cries); -- with forth or out.
BLUE a.
temperance or total abstinence organizations, as of the Blue ribbon Army. -- Blue ruin, utter ruin; also, gin. [Eng. Slang] Carlyle. -- Blue spar (Min.), azure spar; lazulite. See Lazulite. -- Blue thrush (Zoöl.), a European and Asiatic thrush (Petrocossyphus cyaneas). -- Blue verditer. See Verditer. -- Blue vitr…
BLURT v.
To utter suddenly and unadvisedly; to divulge inconsiderately; to ejaculate; -- commonly with out. Others . . . can not hold, but blurt out, those words which afterward they forced to eat. Hakewill. To blurt at, to speak contemptuously of. [Obs.] Shak.
BLUSTER v.
To utter, or do, with noisy violence; to force by blustering; to bully. He bloweth and blustereth out . . . his abominable blasphemy. Sir T. More. As if therewith he meant to bluster all princes into a perfect obedience to his commands. Fuller.
BLUSTERING a.
Uttering noisy threats; noisy and swaggering; boisterous. "A blustering fellow." L'Estrange.
BOG n.
to make a loud noise), Bog blitter, Bog bluiter, Bog jumper, the bittern. [Prov.] -- Bog butter, a hydrocarbon of butterlike consistence found in the peat bogs of Ireland. -- Bog earth (Min.), a soil composed for the most part of silex and partially decomposed vegetable fiber. P. Cyc. -- Bog moss. (Bot.) Same as Spha…
BOLE n.
An aperture, with a wooden shutter, in the wall of a house, for giving, occasionally, air or light; also, a small closet. [Scot.] Open the bole wi'speed, that I may see if this be the right Lord Geraldin. Sir W. Scott.
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