BLINDSIDE
BLINDSIDE, noun [blind and side.] The side which is most easily assailed; or the side on which the party is least able or disposed to see danger; weakness; foible; weak part.BLI...
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American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.
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BLINDWORM
BLINDWORM, noun [blind and worm.] A small reptile, called also slow worm, a species of Anguis, about eleven inches long, covered with scales, with a forked tongue, but harmless.
BLINK
BLINK, verb intransitive1. To wink; to twinkle with the eye.2. To see obscurely. Johnson. Is it not to see with the eyes half shut, or with frequent winking, as a person with we...
BLINKARD
BLINK'ARD, noun [blink and ard, kind.] A person who blinks or has bad eyes; that which twinkles, or glances, as a dim star, which appears and disappears.
BLINKING
BLINK'ING, participle present tense Winking; twinkling.
BLISS
BLISS, noun The highest degree of happiness; blessedness; felicity; used of felicity in general, when of an exalted kind, but appropriately, of heavenly joys.
BLISSFUL
BLISS'FUL, adjective Full ofjoy and felicity; happy in the highest degree.
BLISSFULLY
BLISS''FULLY, adverb In a blissful manner.
BLISSFULNESS
BLISS'FULNESS, noun Exalted happiness; felicity; fullness ofjoy.
BLISSLESS
BLISS'LESS, adjective Destitute of bliss.
BLISSOM
BLIS'SOM, verb intransitive To be lustful; to caterwaul. [Little used.]
BLISTER
BLIS'TER, noun1. A pustule; a thin bladder on the skin, containing watery matter or serum, whether occasioned by a burn, or other injury, or by a vesicatory. It is formed by rai...
BLISTERED
BLIS'TERED, participle passive Having blisters or tumors.
BLISTERING
BLIS'TERING, participle present tense Raising a blister; applying a blistering plaster, or vesicatory.
BLITE
BLITE, noun [Latin blitum.] A genus of plants, called strawberry spinach.1. A species of amaranth, or flower gentle.
BLITHE
BLITHE, adjective [Latin loetus; Eng. glad. See Bliss and glad.]Gay; merry; joyous; sprightly; mirthful.For that fair female troop thou sawest, that seemedOf goddesses, so blith...
BLITHEFUL
BLI'THEFUL, adjective Gay; full of gayeta.
BLITHELY
BLI'THELY, adverb In a gay, joyful manner.
BLITHENESS
BLI'THENESS, noun Gayety; sprightliness; the quality of being blithe.
BLITHESOME
BLI'THESOME, adjective Gay; merry; cheerful.
BLITHESOMENESS
BLI'THESOMENESS, noun The quality of being blithesome; gayety.
BLOAT
BLOAT, verb transitive [This word may be allied to bladder, from the sense of inflating, swelling.]1. To swell or make turgid, as with air; to inflate; to puff up; hence, to mak...
BLOATED
BLOATED, participle passive Swelled; grown turgid; inflated.
BLOATEDNESS
BLOATEDNESS, noun A turgid state; turgidness; dilation from inflation, debility, or any morbid cause.
BLOATING
BLOATING, participle present tense Swelling; inflating.
BLOBBERLIPPED
BLOB'BERLIPPED, adjective Having thick lips.
BLOBBERLLIP
BLOB'BERLLIP, noun [blobber and lip.] A thick lip.