Webster's Dictionary 1913

3106

Blaspheme (2)

Blas‐pheme″, v. i. To utter blasphemy.He that shall blaspheme against the Holy Ghost hath never forgiveness.Mark iii. 29.

3107

Blasphemer

Blas‐phem″er (�), n. One who blasphemes.And each blasphemer quite escape the rod,Because the insult's not on man, but God?Pope.

3108

Blasphemous

Blas″phe‐mous (�), a. [L. blasphemus, Gr. �.] Speaking or writing blasphemy; uttering or exhibiting anything impiously irreverent; profane; as, a blasphemous person; containing ...

3109

Blasphemously

Blas″phe‐mous‐ly, adv. In a blasphemous manner.

3110

Blasphemy

Blas″phe‐my (�), n. [L. blasphemia, Gr. �: cf. OF. blasphemie.] 1. An indignity offered to God in words, writing, or signs; impiously irreverent words or signs addressed to, or ...

3111

Blast

Blast (blȧst), n. [AS. blǣst a puff of wind, a blowing; akin to Icel. blāstr, OHG. blāst, and fr. a verb akin to Icel. blāsa to blow, OHG. blâsan, Goth. blēsan (in comp.); all p...

3112

Blast (2)

Blast, v. t. [imp. & p. p.Blasted; p. pr. & vb. n.Blasting.] 1. To injure, as by a noxious wind; to cause to wither; to stop or check the growth of, and prevent from fruit-beari...

3113

Blast (3)

Blast, v. i. 1. To be blighted or withered; as, the bud blasted in the blossom.2. To blow; to blow on a trumpet.Toke his blake trumpe fasteAnd gan to puffen and to blaste.Chaucer.

3114

Blast lamp

Blast lamp. A lamp provided with some arrangement for intensifying combustion by means of a blast.

3115

Blast pipe

Blast″ pipe′ (�). The exhaust pipe of a steam engine, or any pipe delivering steam or air, when so constructed as to cause a blast.

3116

Blasted

Blast″ed (�), a. 1. Blighted; withered.Upon this blasted heath. Shak.2. Confounded; accursed; detestable.Some of her own blasted gypsies.Sir W. Scott.3. Rent open by an explosiv...

3117

Blastema

‖Blas‐te″ma (�), n.; pl.Blastemata (�). [Gr. � bud, sprout.] (Biol.) The structureless, protoplasmic tissue of the embryo; the primitive basis of an organ yet unformed, from whi...

3118

Blastemal

Blas‐te″mal (�), a.(Biol.) Relating to the blastema; rudimentary.

3119

Blastematic

Blas′te‐mat″ic (�), a.(Biol.) Connected with, or proceeding from, the blastema; blastemal.

3120

Blaster

Blast″er (�), n. One who, or that which, blasts or destroys.

3121

Blastide

Blas″tide (�), n. [Gr. � sprout, fr. � to grow.] (Biol.) A small, clear space in the segments of the ovum, the precursor of the nucleus.

3122

Blasting

Blast″ing (�), n. 1. A blast; destruction by a blast, or by some pernicious cause.I have smitten you with blasting and mildew.Amos iv. 9.2. The act or process of one who, or tha...

3123

Blastment

Blast″ment (�), n. A sudden stroke or injury produced by some destructive cause. Shak.

3124

Blastocarpous

Blas′to‐car″pous (�), a. [Gr. � sprout, germ + � fruit.] (Bot.) Germinating inside the pericarp, as the mangrove. Brande & C.

3125

Blastocœle

Blas″to‐cœle (�), n. [Gr. βλαστόσ sprout + κοι̑λοσ hollow.] (Biol.) The cavity of the blastosphere, or segmentation cavity.

3126

Blastocyst

Blas″to‐cyst (�), n. [Gr. βλαστόσ sprout + E. cyst.] (Biol.) The germinal vesicle.

3127

Blastoderm

Blas″to‐derm (�), n. [Gr. βλαστόσ sprout + E. derm.] (Biol.) The germinal membrane in an ovum, from which the embryo is developed.

3128

Blastodermatic

{ Blas′to‐der‐mat″ic (�), Blas′to‐der″mic (�), } a. Of or pertaining to the blastoderm.

3129

Blastogenesis

Blas′to‐gen″e‐sis (�), n. [Gr. βλαστόσ sprout + E. genesis.] (Biol.) Multiplication or increase by gemmation or budding.

3130

Blastoid

Blas″toid (�), n.(Zoöl.) One of the Blastoidea.

3131

Blastoidea

‖Blas‐toid″e‐a (�), n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. βλαστόσ sprout + -oid.] (Zoöl.) One of the divisions of Crinoidea found fossil in paleozoic rocks; pentremites. They are so named on acc...

3132

Blastomere

Blas″to‐mere (�), n. [Gr. βλαστόσ sprout + -mere.] (Biol.) One of the segments first formed by the division of the ovum. Balfour.