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Quality of being bilingual. The bilingualism of King's English. Earle.

See Bilingual.

One versed in two languages.

Having two tongues, or speaking two languages. [Obs.]

Caressing; kissing.

A market near the Billings gate in London, celebrated for fish and foul language.

A little bird; a nestling.

A roachlike European fish (Rhodima amarus).

The act or practice of extorting money by exciting fears of injury other than bodily harm, as injury to reputation.

To stop; to cease; to desist. [Obs.] Spenser.

f seeing, either by natural defect or by deprivation; without sight. He that is strucken blind can not forget The precious treasure of his eyesight lost. Shak.

A post-office clerk whose duty is to decipher obscure addresses.

See Blende.

A cover or protection for an advanced trench or approach, formed of fascines and earth supported by a framework.

One who, or that which, blinds.

A small fish (Amblyopsis spelæus) destitute of eyes, found in the waters of the Mammoth Cave, in Kentucky. Related fishes from other caves take the same name.

To cover the eyes of, as with a bandage; to hinder from seeing. And when they had blindfolded him, they struck him on the face. Luke xxii. 64.

Making blind or as if blind; depriving of sight or of understanding; obscuring; as, blinding tears; blinding snow.

ut thought, investigation, knowledge, or purpose of one's own. By his imperious mistress blindly led. Dryden.

A play in which one person is blindfolded, and tries to catch some one of the company and tell who it is. Surely he fancies I play at blindman's buff with him, for he thinks I never have my eyes open. Stillingfleet.