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To utter inconsiderately. [Low] If I have anything on my mind, I have to blat it right out. W. D. Howells.

Blatant quality.

ing; 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.

In a blatant manner.

To talk foolishly, or nonsensically. G. Eliot.

A blustering, talkative fellow. [Local slang, U. S.] Barllett.

To prate; to babble; to rail; to make a senseless noise; to patter. [Archaic] "The rain blattered." Jeffrey. They procured . . . preachers to blatter against me, . . . so that they had place and time to belie me shamefully. Latimer.

Blattering.

One who blatters; a babbler; a noisy, blustering boaster.

Senseless babble or boasting.

A senseless babbler or boaster. [Obs.] "I hate such blatteroons." Howell.

A carrying or taking away; removal. Jer. Taylor.

Diminishing; as, an ablatitious force. Sir J. Herschel.

Taking away or removing. [Obs.] Where the heart is forestalled with misopinion, ablative directions are found needful to unteach error, ere we can learn truth. Bp. Hall.

The superstructure which lies horizontally upon the columns. See Illust. of Column, Cornice.

Flattened or depressed at the poles; as, the earth is an oblate spheroid.

The quality or state of being oblate.

Children dedicated in their early years to the monastic state.

ered or presented in worship or sacred service; an offering; a sacrifice. A peculiar ... oblation given to God. Jer. Taylor. A pin was the usual oblation. Sir. W. Scott.

One who makes an offering as an act worship or reverence. Dr. H. More.