BLEACHERY
BLE'ACHERY, noun A place for bleaching; as a wax bleachery
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American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.
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BLEACHING
BLE'ACHING, participle present tense Whitening; making white; becoming white.BLE'ACHING, noun The act or art of whitening, especially cloth.
BLEAK
BLEAK, adjective1. Pale. [But not often used in this sense, in America, as far as my observations extend.]2. Open; vacant; exposed to a free current of air; as a bleak hill or s...
BLEAKISH
BLEAKISH, adjective Moderately bleak.
BLEAKNESS
BLE'AKNESS, noun Openness of situation; exposure to the wind; hence coldness.
BLEAR
BLEAR, adjective Sore, with a watery rheum; applied only to the eyes; as the blear-eyed owl.BLEAR, verb transitive To make sore; to affect with soreness of eyes, or a watery hum...
BLEAR-EYED
BLE'AR-EYED, adjective Having sore eyes; having the eyes dim with rheum; dim-sighted.
BLEAREDNESS
BLE'AREDNESS, noun The state of being bleared, or dimmed with rheum.
BLEAT
BLEAT, verb intransitive [Latin blatero; plaudo.] To make the noise of a sheep; to cry as a sheep.BLEAT, noun The cry of a sheep.
BLEATING
BLE'ATING, participle present tense or adjective Crying as a sheep.BLE'ATING, noun The cry of a sheep.
BLEB
BLEB, noun [This word belongs to the root of blab, blubber.]A little tumor, vesicle or blister.Arsenic abounds with air blebs.
BLEBBY
BLEBBY, adjective Full of blebs.
BLED
BLED, preterit tense and participle passive of bleed.
BLEED
BLEED, verb intransitivepreterit tense and participle passive bled.1. To lose blood; to run with blood, by whatever means; as, the arm bleeds.2. To die a violent death, or by sl...
BLEEDING
BLEE'DING, participle present tense Losing blood; letting blood; losing sap or juice.BLEE'DING, noun a running or issuing of blood, as from the nose; a hemorrhage; the operation...
BLEIT
BLEIT, adjective Bashful; used in Scotland and the northern counties of England.
BLEMISH
BLEM'ISH, verb transitive1. Too mark with any deformity; to injure or impair any thing which is well formed, or excellent; to mar, or make defective, either the body or mind.2. ...
BLEMISHED
BLEM'ISHED, participle passive Injured or marred by any mark of deformity; tarnished; soiled.
BLEMISHING
BLEM'ISHING, participle present tense Marking with deformity; tarnishing.
BLEMISHLESS
BLEM'ISHLESS, adjective Without blemish; spotless.
BLEMISHMENT
BLEM'ISHMENT, noun Disgrace. [Little used.]
BLENCH
BLENCH, verb intransitive [This evidently is the blanch of Bacon [see Blanch.] and perhaps the modern flinch.]To shrink; to start back to give way.BLENCH, verb transitive To hin...
BLENCHER
BLENCH'ER, noun That which frustrates.BLENCH'-HOLDING, noun A tenure of lands upon the payment of a small sum in silver, blanck, that is, white money.
BLEND
BLEND, nounAn ore of zink, called also mock-lead, false galena and black jack. Its color is mostly yellow, brown and black. There are several varieties, but in general, this ore...
BLENDED
BLEND'ED, participle passive Mixed; confounded by mixture.
BLENDER
BLEND'ER, noun One that mingles or confounds.
BLENDING
BLEND'ING, participle present tense Mingling together; confounding by mixture.