BITTS — BLANDISHING

BITTS — BLANDISHING NWAD BITTS.1

BITTS, n. plu. [from the same root as bite.] A frame of two strong pieces of timber fixed perpendicularly in the fore part of a ship, on which to fasten the cables, when she rides at anchor. There are also top-sail sheet bitts, paul-bitts, carrick-bitts, etc. NWAD BITTS.1

BITTS, v.t. To put round the bitts; as, to bitt the cable, in order to fasten it or to slacken it out gradually, which is called veering away. NWAD BITTS.2

BITUME, n. Bitumen, so written for the sake of the rhyme. NWAD BITUME.1

BITUMEN, n. [L.] This name is used to denote various inflammable substances, of a strong smell, and of different consistencies, which are found in the earth. There are several varieties, most of which evidently pass into each other, proceeding from Naphtha, the most fluid, to Petroleum, a viscid fluid, Maltha, more or less cohesive, elastic bitumen or mineral caoutchouc, and Asphalt, which is sometimes too hard to be scratched by the nail. NWAD BITUMEN.1

BITUMINATE, v.t. To impregnate with bitumen. NWAD BITUMINATE.1

BITUMINATED, a. Impregnated with bitumen. NWAD BITUMINATED.1

BITUMINIFEROUS, a. [bitumen and fero, to produce.] NWAD BITUMINIFEROUS.1

Producing bitumen. NWAD BITUMINIFEROUS.2

BITUMINIZE, v.t. To form into, or impregnate with bitumen. NWAD BITUMINIZE.1

BITUMINOUS, a. Having the qualities of bitumen; compounded with bitumen; containing bitumen. Limestone is of a lamellar structure, susceptible of polish, of a brown or black color, and when rubbed emitting an unpleasant smell. That of Dalmatia is so charged with bitumen, that it may be cut like soap. NWAD BITUMINOUS.1

BIVALVE, n. [L. bis, twice, and valve. L. valva] NWAD BIVALVE.1

An animal having two valves, or a shell consisting of two parts which open and shut. Also a pericarp in which the seed-case opens or splits into two parts. NWAD BIVALVE.2

BIVALVE, BIVALVULAR, BIVALVOUS, a. Having two shells or valves which open and shut, as the oyster and the seed cases of certain plants. NWAD BIVALVE.3

BIVAULTED, a. [L. bis, twice, and vault.] Having two vaults or arches. NWAD BIVAULTED.1

BIVENTRAL, a. [L. bis and venter, belly.] Having two bellies; as a biventral muscle. NWAD BIVENTRAL.1

BIVIOUS, a. [L. bivius; bis and via, way.] Having two ways, or leading two ways. NWAD BIVIOUS.1

BIVOUAC, n. [L. vigilo.] The guard or watch of a whole army, as in cases of great danger of surprise or attack. NWAD BIVOUAC.1

BIVOUAC, v.t. To watch or be on guard, as a whole army. NWAD BIVOUAC.2

[This word anglicized would be bewatch.] NWAD BIVOUAC.3

BIXWORT, n. A plant. NWAD BIXWORT.1

BLAB, v.t. NWAD BLAB.1

1. To utter or tell in a thoughtless manner; to publish secrets or trifles without discretion. It implies, says Johnson, rather thoughtlessness than treachery, but may be used in either sense. NWAD BLAB.2

2. To tell, or utter; in a good sense. NWAD BLAB.3

BLAB, v.i. To tattle; to tell tales. NWAD BLAB.4

BLAB, n. A babbler; a telltale; one who betrays secrets, or tell things which ought to be kept secret. NWAD BLAB.5

BLABBER, n. A tattler; a tell-tale. NWAD BLABBER.1

BLABBING, ppr. Telling indiscreetly what ought to be concealed; tattling. NWAD BLABBING.1

BLACK, a. NWAD BLACK.1

1. Of the color of night; destitute of light; dark. NWAD BLACK.2

2. Darkened by clouds; as the heavens black with clouds. NWAD BLACK.3

3. Sullen; having a cloudy look or countenance. NWAD BLACK.4

4. Atrociously wicked; horrible; as a black deed or crime. NWAD BLACK.5

5. Dismal; mournful; calamitous. NWAD BLACK.6

Black and blue, the dark color of a bruise in the flesh, which is accompanied with a mixture of blue. NWAD BLACK.7

BLACK, n. That which is destitute of light or whiteness; the darkest color, or rather a destitution of all color; as, a cloth has a good black. NWAD BLACK.8

1. A negro; a person whose skin is black. NWAD BLACK.9

2. A black dress, or mourning; as, to be clothed in black. NWAD BLACK.10

BLACK, v.t. To make black; to blacken; to soil. NWAD BLACK.11

BLACK-ACT, n. [black and act.] The English statute 9. Geo. I. which makes it felony to appear armed in any park or warren, etc., or to hunt or steal deer, etc., with the face blacked or disguised. NWAD BLACK-ACT.1

BLACK-BALL, n. [black and ball.] A composition for blacking shoes. NWAD BLACK-BALL.1

BLACK-BALL, v.t. To reject or negative in choosing, by putting black balls into a ballot-box. NWAD BLACK-BALL.2

BLACK-BAR, n. [black and bar.] A plea obliging the plaintiff to assign the place of trespass. NWAD BLACK-BAR.1

BLACK-BERRY, n. The berry of the bramble or rubus; a popular name applied, in different places, to different species, or varieties of this fruit. NWAD BLACK-BERRY.1

BLACK-BIRD, n. [black and bird.] In England, the merula, a species of turdus, a singing bird with a fine note, but very loud. In America, this name is given to different birds, as to the gracula quiscula, or crow black-bird, and to the oriolus phaeniceus, or red winged black-bird. NWAD BLACK-BIRD.1

BLACK-BOOK, n. [black and book.] The Black Book of the Exchequer in England, is a book said to have been composed in 1175, by Gervais of Tilbury. It contains a description of the Court of Exchequer, its officers, their ranks and privileges, wages, perquisites and jurisdiction, with the revenues of the crown, in money, grain and cattle. NWAD BLACK-BOOK.1

1. Any book which treats of necromancy. NWAD BLACK-BOOK.2

2. A book compiled by order of the visitors of monasteries, under Henry VIII., containing a detailed account of the enormities practiced in religious houses, to blacken them and to hasten their dissolution. NWAD BLACK-BOOK.3

BLACK-BROWED, a. [black and brow.] Having black eye-brows; gloomy; dismal; threatening; as a black-browed gust. NWAD BLACK-BROWED.1

BLACK-BRYONY, n. [black and bryony.] A plant, the Tamus. NWAD BLACK-BRYONY.1

BLACK-CAP, n. [black and cap.] A bird, the Motacilla atricapilla, or mock-nightingale; so called from its black crown. It is common in Europe. NWAD BLACK-CAP.1

1. In cookery, an apple roasted till black, to be served up in a dish of boiled custard. NWAD BLACK-CAP.2

BLACK-CATTLE, n. [black and cattle.] Cattle of the bovine genus, as bulls, oxen and cows. [English.] NWAD BLACK-CATTLE.1

BLACK-CHALK, n. A mineral of a bluish black color, of a slaty texture, and soiling the fingers when handled; a variety of argillaceous slate. NWAD BLACK-CHALK.1

BLACK-COCK, n. [black and cock.] A fowl, called also black-grous and black-game, the Tetrao tetrix of Linne. NWAD BLACK-COCK.1

BLACK-EAGLE, n. [black and eagle.] In Scotland, a name given to the Falco fulvus, the white tailed eagle of Edwards. NWAD BLACK-EAGLE.1

BLACK-EARTH, n. Mold; earth of a dark color. NWAD BLACK-EARTH.1

BLACKED, pp. Made black; soiled. NWAD BLACKED.1

BLACKEN, v.t. NWAD BLACKEN.1

1. To make black. NWAD BLACKEN.2

The importation of slaves that has blackened half America. NWAD BLACKEN.3

2. To make dark; to darken; to cloud. NWAD BLACKEN.4

3. To soil. NWAD BLACKEN.5

4. To sully reputation; to make infamous; as, vice blackens the character. NWAD BLACKEN.6

BLACKEN, v.i. To grow black, or dark. NWAD BLACKEN.7

BLACKENER, n. He that blackens. NWAD BLACKENER.1

BLACK-EYED, a. Having black eyes. NWAD BLACK-EYED.1

BLACK-FACED, a. Having a black face. NWAD BLACK-FACED.1

BLACK-FISH, n. [black and fish.] A fish in the Orontes, about twenty inches long, in shape resembling the sheat-fish. Its eyes are placed near the corners of its mouth on the edge of the lower jaw. NWAD BLACK-FISH.1

1. In the U. States, a fish caught on the rocky shores of New England. NWAD BLACK-FISH.2

BLACK-FOREST, n. [black and forest.] A forest in Germany, in Swabia; a part of the ancient Hercynian forest. NWAD BLACK-FOREST.1

BLACK-FRIAR, n. Black-friars is a name given to the Dominican Order, called also Predicants and preaching friars; in France, Jacobins. NWAD BLACK-FRIAR.1

BLACK-GUARD, n. [said to be of black and guard; but is it not a corruption of black-ard, black-king?] NWAD BLACK-GUARD.1

A vulgar term applied to a mean fellow, who uses abusive, scurrilous language, or treats others with foul abuse. NWAD BLACK-GUARD.2

BLACKING, ppr. Making black. NWAD BLACKING.1

BLACKING, n. A substance used for blacking shoes, variously made; any factitious matter for making things black. NWAD BLACKING.2

BLACKISH, a. Somewhat black; moderately black or dark. NWAD BLACKISH.1

BLACK-JACK, A name given by miners to blend, a mineral called also false galena, and blend. It is an ore of zink, in combination with iron and sulphur, sulfuret of zink. NWAD BLACK-JACK.1

1. A leathern cup of old times. NWAD BLACK-JACK.2

BLACK-LEAD, n. A mineral of a dark steel-gray color, and of a scaly texture, composed of carbon, with a small portion of iron. This name, black-lead, is improper, as it contains no lead. It is called plumbago, and technically graphite, as it is used for pencils. NWAD BLACK-LEAD.1

BLACK-LEGS, n. In some parts of England, a disease among calves and sheep. It is a sort of jelly which settles in the legs and sometimes in the neck. NWAD BLACK-LEGS.1

BLACKLY, adv. Darkly; atrociously. NWAD BLACKLY.1

BLACK-MAIL, n. A certain rate of money, corn, cattle or other thing, anciently paid, in the north of England, to certain men, who were allied to robbers, to be by them protected from pillage. NWAD BLACK-MAIL.1

1. Black rent, or rents paid in corn or flesh. NWAD BLACK-MAIL.2

BLACK-MONDAY, n. Easter Monday, in 34. Ed. III., which was misty, obscure, and so cold that men died on horseback. NWAD BLACK-MONDAY.1

BLACK-MONKS, n. A denomination given to the Benedictines. NWAD BLACK-MONKS.1

BLACK-MOOR, n. [black and moor.] A negro; a black man. NWAD BLACK-MOOR.1

BLACK-MOUTHED, a. Using foul or scurrilous language. NWAD BLACK-MOUTHED.1

BLACKNESS, n. The quality of being black; black color; darkness; atrociousness or enormity in wickedness. NWAD BLACKNESS.1

BLACK-PUDDING, n. A kind of food made of blood and grain. NWAD BLACK-PUDDING.1

BLACK-ROD, n. [black and rod.] In England, the usher belonging to the order of the garter; so called from the black rod which he carries. He is of the king’s chamber and usher of Parliament. NWAD BLACK-ROD.1

BLACK-ROW GRAINS, n. A species of iron stone or ore, found in the mines about Dudley in Staffordshire, England. NWAD BLACK-ROW_GRAINS.1

BLACKSEA, n. [black and sea.] The Euxine Sea, on the eastern border of Europe. NWAD BLACKSEA.1

BLACK-SHEEP, n. [black and sheep.] In oriental history, the ensign or standard of a race of Turkmans in Armenia and Mesopotamia. NWAD BLACK-SHEEP.1

BLACKSMITH, n. [black and smith.] A smith who works in iron, and makes iron utensils; more properly, an iron-smith. NWAD BLACKSMITH.1

Black’-strakes, in a ship, are a range of planks immediately above the wales in a ship’s side, covered with tar and lamp-black. NWAD BLACKSMITH.2

BLACK-TAIL, n. [black and tail.] A fish, a kind of perch, called also a ruff or pope. NWAD BLACK-TAIL.1

BLACK-THORN, n. [black and thorn.] A species of prunus, called also sloe. It grows ten or twelve feet high, very branchy, and armed with sharp, strong spines, and bearing small, round, black cherries. It is much cultivated for hedges. NWAD BLACK-THORN.1

BLACK-TIN, n. [black and tin.] Tin ore, when dressed, stamped and washed ready for melting. It is the ore comminuted by beating into a black power, like fine sand. NWAD BLACK-TIN.1

BLACK-VISAGED, a. Having a dark visage or appearance. NWAD BLACK-VISAGED.1

BLACK-WADD, n. [black and wadd.] An ore of manganese, found in Derbyshire, England, and used as a drying ingredient in paints. It is remarkable for taking fire, when mixed with linseed oil in a certain proportion. NWAD BLACK-WADD.1

BLACK-WORK, n. [black and work.] Iron wrought by black-smiths; so called in distinction from that wrought by white-smiths. NWAD BLACK-WORK.1

BLAD-APPLE, n. In botany, the cactus or a species of it. NWAD BLAD-APPLE.1

BLADDER, n. [Eng. a blade; L. latus.] NWAD BLADDER.1

1. A thin membranous bag in animals, which serves as the receptacle of some secreted fluid, as the urinary bladder, the gall bladder, etc. By way of eminence, the word, in common language, denotes the urinary bladder, either within the animal, or when taken out and inflated with air. NWAD BLADDER.2

2. Any vesicle, blister or pustule, especially if filled with air, or a thin, watery liquor. NWAD BLADDER.3

3. In botany, a distended membranaceous pericarp. NWAD BLADDER.4

BLADDERED, a. Swelled like a bladder. NWAD BLADDERED.1

BLADDER-NUT, n. [bladder and nut.] A genus of plants, with the generic name of Staphyloea. They have three capsules, inflated and joined by a longitudinal suture. NWAD BLADDER-NUT.1

1. The African bladder nut is the Royena. NWAD BLADDER-NUT.2

2. The laurel-leaved bladder-nut is a species of Ilex, holm or holly. NWAD BLADDER-NUT.3

BLADDER-SENNA, BASTARD-SENNA, a genus of plants, called in botany Colutea. NWAD BLADDER-SENNA.1

The jointed-podded bladder-senna is the Coronilla. NWAD BLADDER-SENNA.2

BLADDERY, a. Resembling a bladder; containing bladders. NWAD BLADDERY.1

BLADE, n. [Gr. broad.] NWAD BLADE.1

1. The stalk or spire of a plant, particularly of grass and corn; but applicable to the stalk of any herbaceous plant, whether green or dry. NWAD BLADE.2

2. A leaf. In this sense much used in the Southern States of N. America, for the leaves of maize, which are used as fodder. NWAD BLADE.3

3. The cutting part of an instrument, as the blade of a knife, or sword, so named from its length or breadth. Usually, it is made of iron or steel, but may be of any other metal, cast or wrought to an edge or point. Also, the broad part of an oar. NWAD BLADE.4

4. The blade of the shoulder, shoulder-blade, or blade-bone, is the scapula, or scapular bone. It is the broad upper bone of the shoulder, so called from its resemblance to a blade or leaf. NWAD BLADE.5

5. A brisk man; a bold, forward man; a rake. NWAD BLADE.6

BLADE, v.t. To furnish with a blade. NWAD BLADE.7

BLADE-BONE, n. The scapula, or upper bone in the shoulder. NWAD BLADE-BONE.1

BLADED, pp. Having a blade or blades. It may be used of blade in the sense of a leaf, a spire, or the cutting part of an instrument. NWAD BLADED.1

1. In mineralogy, composed of long and narrow plates, like the blade of a knife. NWAD BLADED.2

BLADE-SMITH, n. A sword cutler. NWAD BLADE-SMITH.1

BLAIN, n. A pustule; a botch; a blister. In farriery, a bladder growing on the root of the tongue, against the wind pipe, which swells so as to stop the breath. NWAD BLAIN.1

BLAMABLE, a. [See Blame.] Faulty; culpable; reprehensible; deserving of censure. NWAD BLAMABLE.1

BLAMABLENESS, n. Culpableness; fault; the state of being worthy of censure. NWAD BLAMABLENESS.1

BLAMABLY, adv. Culpably; in a manner deserving of censure. NWAD BLAMABLY.1

BLAME, v.t. [The Greeks have the root of this word, to blaspheme.] NWAD BLAME.1

1. To censure; to express disapprobation of; to find fault with; opposed to praise or commend, and applicable most properly to persons, but applied also to things. NWAD BLAME.2

I withstood him, because he was to be blamed. Galatians 2:11. NWAD BLAME.3

I must blame your conduct; or I must blame you for neglecting business. Legitimately, it cannot be followed by of. NWAD BLAME.4

2. To bring reproach upon; to blemish; to injure. [See Blemish.] NWAD BLAME.5

She had blamed her noble blood. NWAD BLAME.6

BLAME, n. Censure; reprehension; imputation of a fault; disapprobation; an expression of disapprobation for something deemed to be wrong. NWAD BLAME.7

Let me bear the blame forever. Genesis 43:9. NWAD BLAME.8

1. Fault; crime; sin; that which is deserving of censure or disapprobation. NWAD BLAME.9

That we should be holy and without blame before him in love. Ephesians 1:4. NWAD BLAME.10

2. Hurt; injury. NWAD BLAME.11

And glancing down his shield, from blame him fairly blest. NWAD BLAME.12

The sense of this word, as used by Spenser, proves that it is a derivative from the root of blemish. NWAD BLAME.13

To blame, in the phrase, he is to blame, signifies blamable, to be blamed. NWAD BLAME.14

Blame is not strictly a charge or accusation of a fault; but it implies an opinion in the censuring party, that the person censured is faulty. Blame is the act or expression of disapprobation for what is supposed to be wrong. NWAD BLAME.15

BLAMED, pp. Censured; disapproved. NWAD BLAMED.1

BLAMEFUL, a. Faulty; meriting blame; reprehensible. NWAD BLAMEFUL.1

BLAMELESS, a. Without fault; innocent; guiltless; not meriting censure. NWAD BLAMELESS.1

A bishop then must be blameless. 1 Timothy 3:2. NWAD BLAMELESS.2

Sometimes followed by of. NWAD BLAMELESS.3

We will be blameless of this thine oath. Joshua 2:17. NWAD BLAMELESS.4

BLAMELESSLY, adv. Innocently; without fault or crime. NWAD BLAMELESSLY.1

BLAMELESSNESS, n. Innocence; a state of being not worthy of censure. NWAD BLAMELESSNESS.1

BLAMER, n. One who blames, finds fault or censures. NWAD BLAMER.1

BLAMEWORTHINESS, n. The quality of deserving censure. NWAD BLAMEWORTHINESS.1

BLAMEWORTHY, a. [blame and worthy.] Deserving blame; censurable; culpable; reprehensible. NWAD BLAMEWORTHY.1

BLAMING, ppr. Censuring; finding fault. NWAD BLAMING.1

BLANCARD, n. A kind of linen cloth, manufactured in Normandy, so called because the thread is half blanched before it is woven. NWAD BLANCARD.1

BLANCH, v.t. NWAD BLANCH.1

1. To whiten; to take out the color, and make white; to obliterate. NWAD BLANCH.2

2. To slur; to balk; to pass over; that is to avoid; to make empty. NWAD BLANCH.3

3. To strip or peel; as, to blanch almonds. NWAD BLANCH.4

BLANCH, v.i. To evade; to shift; to speak softly. NWAD BLANCH.5

Rather, to fail or withhold; to be reserved; to remain blank, or empty. NWAD BLANCH.6

Books will speak plain, when counselors blanch. NWAD BLANCH.7

BLANCHED, pp. Whitened. NWAD BLANCHED.1

BLANCHER, n. One who whitens; also, one who anneals, and cleanses money. NWAD BLANCHER.1

BLANCHIMETER, n. [blanch, and Gr. measure.] NWAD BLANCHIMETER.1

An instrument for measuring the bleaching power of oxymuriate [chloride] of lime, and potash. NWAD BLANCHIMETER.2

BLANCHING, ppr. Whitening. In coinage, the operation of giving brightness to pieces of silver, by heating them on a peel, and afterwards boiling them successively in two pans of copper, with aqua fortis, common salt, and tartar of Montpelier; then draining off the water in a sieve; sand and fresh water are then thrown over them, and when dry, they are rubbed with a towel. NWAD BLANCHING.1

The covering of iron plates with a thin coat of tin is also called blanching. NWAD BLANCHING.2

Blanch-fern, or blank farm, in ancient law, a white farm, was one, where the rent was paid in silver, not in cattle. NWAD BLANCHING.3

Blanch-holding, in law, a tenure by which the tenant is bound to pay only an elusory yearly duty to his superior, as an acknowledgment to his right. NWAD BLANCHING.4

BLANC-MANGER, pron. blomonge. In cookery, a preparation of dissolved isinglass, milk, sugar, cinnamon, etc., boiled into a thick consistence, and garnished for the table with blanched almonds. NWAD BLANC-MANGER.1

BLAND, a. [L. blandus.] Mild; soft; gentle; as bland words; bland zephyrs. NWAD BLAND.1

BLANDILOQUENCE, n. [L. blandus, mild, and loquor, to speak.] NWAD BLANDILOQUENCE.1

Fair, mild, flattering speech. NWAD BLANDILOQUENCE.2

BLANDISH, v.t. [L. blandior; Old Eng. blandise.] NWAD BLANDISH.1

To soften; to caress; to flatter by kind words or affectionate actions. NWAD BLANDISH.2