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26 words match “BLUB”

To swell; to puff out, as with weeping. [Obs.]

BLUBBER n. 6 definitions

A bubble. At his mouth a blubber stood of foam. Henryson.

Swollen; turgid; as, a blubbered lip. Spenser.

The act of weeping noisily. He spake well save that his blubbering interrupted him. Winthrop.

BLUBBERY a. 2 definitions

Like blubber; gelatinous and quivering; as, a blubbery mass.

To make swollen and disfigured or sullied by weeping; as, her eyes or cheeks were beblubbered.

A streak or layer of blubber in whales.

A bubble; blubber. [Low] T. Carew. Blobber lip, a thick, protruding lip. His blobber lips and beetle brows commend. Dryden.

A species of jellyfish; sea blubber. Sir T. Herbert.

The refuse whale blubber, used as a manure, and in the manufacture of Prussian blue. Ure.

To strip the blubber or skin from, as from a whale, seal, etc. the flensed carcass of a fur seal. U. S. Census (1880).

The finer refuse part of whale blubber, not wholly deprived of oil. Simmonds.

rdage, old metal, glass, etc. -- Junk hook (Whaling), a hook for hauling heavy pieces of blubber on deck. -- Junk ring. (a) A packing of soft material round the piston of a steam engine. (b) A metallic ring for retaining a piston packing in place; (c) A follower. -- Junk shop, a shop where old cordage, and ship's ta…

The carcass of a whale after the blubber has been removed. [Written also crang and kreng.]

KRANGING HOOK n.

A hook for holding the blubber while cutting it away. [Written also cranging hook.]

in the hold of a vessel, to prevent grain, etc., from shifting. Pouch mouth, a mouth with blubbered or swollen lips.

To strike repeatedly with some heavy instrument; to beat. With cruel blows she pounds her blubbered cheeks. Dryden.

sed for various purposes, as for stripping the planking from a vessel's side, for cutting blubber from a whale, or for stirring a fire of coals; a slice bar; a peel; a fire shovel. [Cant]

The blubber of whales or other marine mammals; also, the fat of the hippopotamus. Speck falls (Naut.), falls or ropes rove through blocks for hoisting the blubber and bone of whales on board a whaling vessel.