Webster's Dictionary 1828

1756

BLENDOUS

BLEND'OUS, adjective Pertaining to blend.BLEND'-WATER, noun A distemper incident to cattle, called also more-hough.

1757

BLENNY

BLEN'NY, noun A genus of fishes, of the order of Jugulars, in Ichthyology called Blennius. There are several species; the size from five inches to a foot in length.

1758

BLENT

BLENT, the obsolete participle of blend.

1759

BLESS

BLESS, verb transitivepreterit tense and participle present tense blessed or blest.1. To pronounce a wish of happiness to one; to express a wish or desire of happiness.And Isaac...

1760

BLESSED

BLESS'ED, participle passive Made happy or prosperous; extolled; pronounced happy.BLESS'ED, adjective Happy; prosperous in worldly affairs; enjoying spiritual happiness and the ...

1761

BLESSEDLY

BLESS'EDLY, adverb Happily; in a fortunate manner.

1762

BLESSEDNESS

BLESS'EDNESS, noun Happiness; felicity; heavenly joys; the favor of God.1. Sanctity.

1763

BLESSER

BLESS'ER, noun One that blesses or prospers; one who bestows a blessing.

1764

BLESSING

BLESS'ING, participle present tense Making happy; wishing happiness to; praising or extolling; consecrating by prayer.BLESS'ING, noun Benediction; a wish of happiness pronounced...

1765

BLEST

BLEST, participle passive of bless.BLEST, adjective Made happy.1. Making happy; cheering.While these blest sounds my rafish'd ear assail.

1766

BLETONISM

BLE'TONISM, noun The faculty of perceiving and indicating subterraneous springs and currents by sensation; so called from one Bleton of France who possessed this faculty.

1767

BLETONIST

BLE'TONIST, noun One who possesses the faculty of perceiving subterraneous springs by sensation.

1768

BLEW

BLEW, preterit tense of blow.

1769

BLEYME

BLEYME, noun An inflammation in the foot of a horse, between the sole and the bone.

1770

BLICEA

BLICE'A, noun A small fish caught in the German seas, somewhat resembling the English sprat.

1771

BLIGHT

BLIGHT, noun1. A disease incident to plants, affecting them variously. sometimes the whole plant perishes; sometimes only the leaves and blossoms, which will shrivel, as if scor...

1772

BLIN

BLIN, verb transitive To stop or cease.

1773

BLIND

BLIND, adjective1. Destitute of the sense of seeing, either by natural defect, or by deprivation; not having sight.2. Not having the faculty of discernment; destitute of intelle...

1774

BLINDED

BLINDED, participle passive Deprived of sight; deprived of intellectual discernment; made dark or obscure.

1775

BLINDFOLD

BLINDFOLD, adjective [blind and fold.] Having the eyes covered; having the mental eye darkened.BLINDFOLD, verb transitive To cover the eyes; to hinder from seeing.

1776

BLINDFOLDED

BLINDFOLDED, participle passive Having the eyes covered; hindered from seeing.

1777

BLINDFOLDING

BLINDFOLDING, participle present tense Covering the eyes; hindering from seeing.

1778

BLINDING

BLINDING, participle present tense Depriving of sight, or of understanding; obscuring.

1779

BLINDLY

BLINDLY, adverb Without sight, or understanding.1. Without discerning the reason; implicitly; without examination; as, to be blindly led by another.2. Without judgment or direct...

1780

BLINDNESS

BLINDNESS, noun Want of bodily sight; want of intellectual discernment; ignorance.

1781

BLINDNETTLE

BLINDNETTLE, noun A plant.

1782

BLINDS

BLINDS, noun In the military art, a defense made of osiers or branches interwoven, and laid across two rows of stakes, four or five feet asunder, of the highth of a man, to shel...