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A beurré (or buttery) pear, one with the meas, Beurré d'Anjou; Beurré Clairgeau.

Something which takes place or appears once in two years; esp. a biennial examination.

rus). (c) The Tetrapturus albidus, a large oceanic species related to the swordfish; the spearfish. (d) The American fresh-water garpike (Lepidosteus osseus).

out; as, bound out to service. To bind over, to put under bonds to do something, as to appear at court, to keep the peace, etc. -- To bind to, to contract; as, to bind one's self to a wife. -- To bind up in, to cause to be wholly engrossed with; to absorb in.

Occurring or appearing once every two weeks; fortnightly. -- n.

Odd in manner or appearance; fantastic; whimsical; extravagant; grotesque. C. Kingsley.

Having a blade or blades; as a two-bladed knife. Decking with liquid pearl the bladed grass. Shak.

Fig.: To whiten; to give a favorable appearance to; to whitewash; to palliate. Blanch over the blackest and most absurd things. Tillotson.

Emitting, or appearing to emit, blood or sap, etc.; also, expressing anguish or compassion.

That which twinkles or glances, as a dim star, which appears and disappears. Hakewill.

To stain, smear or wet, with blood. [Archaic] Reach out their spears afar, And blood their points. Dryden.

r 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.

ed from a fable of , to favor a thing at one time and treat it coldly at another; or to appear both to favor and to oppose. -- To blow off, to let steam escape through a passage provided for the purpose; as, the engine or steamer is blowing off. -- To blow out. (a) To be driven out by the expansive force of a gas or…

A dim, confused appearance; indistinctness of vision; as, to see things with a blur; it was all blur.

inged the distant hills. Lyttleton. At first blush, or At the first blush, at the first appearance or view. "At the first blush, we thought they had been ships come from France." Hakluyt.

The act of turning red; the appearance of a reddish color or flush upon the cheeks.

sect of the genus Notonecta; -- so called from swimming on its back, which gives it the appearance of a little boat. Called also boat fly, boat insect, boatman, and water boatman.

o take alarm; to exhibit hesitancy and indecision. We start and boggle at every unusual appearance. Glanvill. Boggling at nothing which serveth their purpose. Barrow.

xplosive head, used in whale fishing. -- Volcanic bomb, a mass of lava of a spherical or pear shape. "I noticed volcanic bombs." Darwin.

A name given to several kinds of pears. See Bartlett.