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Blessed. "This patriarch blest." Milton. White these blest sounds my ravished ear assail. Trumbull.

A large pebble; a rounded stone not too large to be handled; a small boulder; -- used for paving streets and for other purposes.

A pebble; also, pebbles collectively. "Chains of pebblestone." Marlowe.

See Rubble, 1 and 2.

Not blest; excluded from benediction; hence, accursed; wretched. "Unblessed enchanter." Milton.

Unblessed. [R.] Sylvester.

, or strong mental powers; showing ability or skill; talented; clever; powerful; as, the ablest man in the senate; an able speech. No man wrote abler state papers. Macaulay.

comp. of Able. -- A"blest, a.,

abounding in goods or riches. Language . . . affluent in expression. H. Reed. Loaded and blest with all the affluent store, Which human vows at smoking shrines implore. Prior.

tatue of Apollo in the Belvedere gallery of the Vatican palace at Rome, esteemed of the noblest representations of the human frame.

ative sense; to make advances; to approximate; as, he approaches to the character of the ablest statesman.

eld Christ to be inferior to God the Father in nature and dignity, though the first and noblest of all created beings. -- n.

l world to the uses of life; the application of knowledge or power to practical purposes. Blest with each grace of nature and of art. Pope.

osperity or happiness upon; to grant divine favor to. The quality of mercy is . . . twice blest; It blesseth him that gives and him that takes. Shak. It hath pleased thee to bless the house of thy servant, that it may continue forever before thee. 1 Chron. xvii. 27 (R. V. )

To keep in slavery; to enslave. And which more blest who chained his country, say Or he whose virtue sighed to lose a day Pope.

e state; to instruct in the rules and customs of civilization; to educate; to refine. Yet blest that fate which did his arms dispose Her land to civilize, as to subdue. Dryden

A cobblestone. "Their slings held cobbles round." Fairfax.

Cobblestone. [Prov. Eng.]

A cobblestone. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

oncerning; to judge; to decide. But no frail man, however great or high, Can be concluded blest before he die. Addison. Is it concluded he shall be protector Shak.