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Written or printed in black letter; as, a black-letter manuscript or book.

Any void space; a void space on paper, or in any written instrument; an interval void of consciousness, action, result, etc; a void. I can not write a paper full, I used to do; and yet I will not forgive a blank of half an inch from you. Swift. From this time there ensues a long blank in the history of French legislati…

A small European river fish (Leuciscus alburnus), of the family Cyprinidæ; the blay. [Written also blick.]

A person of very fair complexion, with light hair and light blue eyes. [Written also blond.]

An obliteration of something written or printed; an erasure. Dryden.

A kind of thick, bibulous, unsized paper, used to absorb superfluous ink from freshly written manuscript, and thus prevent blots.

A kind of cotton lace which is wrought by machines, and not by hand. [Sometimes written bobbin net.]The English machine-made net is now confined to point net, warp net, and bobbin net, so called from the peculiar construction of the machines by which they are produced. Tomlinsom.

A strong beer, originally made in Bavaria. [Also written buck beer.]

A goblin; a specter; a frightful phantom; a bogy; a bugbear. [Written also boggle.]

A specter; a hobgoblin; a bugbear. "Death's heads and bogies." J. H. Newman. [Written also bogey.] There are plenty of such foolish attempts at playing bogy in the history of savages. C. Kingsley.

An edible fish of the Nile (genus Chromis). [Written also bulti.]

A thin spheroidal glass retort or flask, used in the sublimation of camphor. [Written also bumbelo, and bumbolo.]

A collection of sheets of paper, or similar material, blank, written, or printed, bound together; commonly, many folded and bound sheets containing continuous printing or writing.

ace in the mountain pastures inclosed for the shelter of cattle or their keepers. [Obs.] [Written also boley, bolye, bouillie.] Spenser.

To drink greedily or immoderately, esp. alcoholic liquor; to tipple. [Written also bouse, and boose.] Landor. This is better than boozing in public houses. H. R. Haweis.

k Sea and Sea of Marmora; the Cimmerian Bosporus, between the Black Sea and Sea of Azof. [Written also Bosphorus.]

hroat, or intestines of the horse, and are supposed to be the cause of various ailments. [Written also botts.]

One of the shafts of a clustered column. [Written also bowtel, boltel, boultell, etc.]

substances; also, an intoxicating beverage made from hemp seed, darnel meal, and water. [Written also bosa, bozah, bouza.]

Any Brahman woman. [Written also Brahmanee.]