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To surge; to rise and roll in waves or surges; to undulate. "The billowing snow." Prior.

Double; growing in pairs or couples. Gray.

anets to the sun; frost binds the earth, or the streams. He bindeth the floods from overflowing. Job xxviii. 11. Whom Satan hath bound, lo, these eighteen years. Luke xiii. 16.

Twice; -- a word showing that something is, or is to be, repeated; as a passage of music, or an item in accounts.

A blank on the edge or corner of a page, owing to a portion of the frisket, or something else, intervening between the type and paper.

A small scrubby tree (Balanites Ægyptiaca) growing in dry regions of tropical Africa and Asia.

A plant (Lewisia rediviva) allied to the purslane, but with fleshy, farinaceous roots, growing in the mountains of Idaho, Montana, etc. It gives the name to the Bitter Root mountains and river. The Indians call both the plant and the river Spæt'lum.

A bladder growing on the root of the tongue of a horse, against the windpipe, and stopping the breath.

of a trumpet; a loud and somewhat harsh noise, like the blast of a trumpet; a roar or bellowing. With blare of bugle, clamor of men. Tennyson. His ears are stunned with the thunder's blare. J. R. Drake.

stream of air from an orifice, as from a bellows, the mouth, etc. Hence: The continuous blowing to which one charge of ore or metal is subjected in a furnace; as, to melt so many tons of iron at a blast.

Bellowing, as a calf; bawling; brawling; clamoring; disagreeably clamorous; sounding loudly and harshly. "Harsh and blatant tone." R. H. Dana. A monster, which the blatant beast men call. Spenser. Glory, that blatant word, which haunts some military minds like the bray of the trumpet. W. Irving.

To send forth or reflect glowing or brilliant light; to show a blaze. And far and wide the icy summit blazed. Wordsworth.

st able or disposed to see danger. Swift. -- Blind snake (Zoöl.), a small, harmless, burrowing snake, of the family Typhlopidæ, with rudimentary eyes. -- Blind spot (Anat.), the point in the retina of the eye where the optic nerve enters, and which is insensible to light. -- Blind tooling, in bookbinding and leather…

A small, burrowing, snakelike, limbless lizard (Anguis fragilis), with minute eyes, popularly believed to be blind; the slowworm; -- formerly a name for the adder. Newts and blindworms do no wrong. Shak.

The finishing course of a wall showing above a cornice.

The delicate, powdery coating upon certain growing or newly- gathered fruits or leaves, as on grapes, plums, etc. Hence: Anything giving an appearance of attractive freshness; a flush; a glow. A new, fresh, brilliant world, with all the bloom upon it. Thackeray.

The act of blowing; a roaring wind; a blast. [Obs.] A most tempestuous blore. Chapman.

reathe hard or quick; to pant; to puff. Here is Mistress Page at the door, sweating and blowing. Shak.

A blowing off steam, water, etc.; -- Also, adj.

A blowing out or excessive discharge of gas from a hole or fissure in a mine.