BLINKARD — BLOW NWAD BLINKARD.1

BLINKARD, n. [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. NWAD BLINKARD.1

BLINKING, ppr. Winking; twinkling. NWAD BLINKING.1

BLISS, n. The highest degree of happiness; blessedness; felicity; used of felicity in general, when of an exalted kind, but appropriately, of heavenly joys. NWAD BLISS.1

BLISSFUL, a. Full ofjoy and felicity; happy in the highest degree. NWAD BLISSFUL.1

BLISSFULLY, adv. In a blissful manner. NWAD BLISSFULLY.1

BLISSFULNESS, n. Exalted happiness; felicity; fullness ofjoy. NWAD BLISSFULNESS.1

BLISSLESS, a. Destitute of bliss. NWAD BLISSLESS.1

BLISSOM, v.i. To be lustful; to caterwaul. [Little used.] NWAD BLISSOM.1

BLISTER, n. NWAD BLISTER.1

1. 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 raising the cuticle. NWAD BLISTER.2

2. Any tumor made by the separation of the film or skin, as on plants; or by the swelling of the substance at the surface, as on steel. NWAD BLISTER.3

3. A vesicatory; a plaster of flies, or other matter, applied to raise a vesicle. NWAD BLISTER.4

BLISTER, v.t. To rise in blisters. NWAD BLISTER.5

BLISTER, v.t. To raise a blister, by any hurt, burn or violent action upon the skin; to raise a blister by a medical application, or vesicatory. NWAD BLISTER.6

1. To raise tumors on iron bars in a furnace, in the process of converting iron into steel. NWAD BLISTER.7

BLISTERED, pp. Having blisters or tumors. NWAD BLISTERED.1

BLISTERING, ppr. Raising a blister; applying a blistering plaster, or vesicatory. NWAD BLISTERING.1

BLITE, n. [L. blitum.] A genus of plants, called strawberry spinach. NWAD BLITE.1

1. A species of amaranth, or flower gentle. NWAD BLITE.2

BLITHE, a. [L. loetus; Eng. glad. See Bliss and Glad.] NWAD BLITHE.1

Gay; merry; joyous; sprightly; mirthful. NWAD BLITHE.2

For that fair female troop thou sawest, that seemed NWAD BLITHE.3

Of goddesses, so blithe, so smooth, so gay. NWAD BLITHE.4

BLITHEFUL, a. Gay; full of gayeta. NWAD BLITHEFUL.1

BLITHELY, adv. In a gay, joyful manner. NWAD BLITHELY.1

BLITHENESS, n. Gayety; sprightliness; the quality of being blithe. NWAD BLITHENESS.1

BLITHESOME, a. Gay; merry; cheerful. NWAD BLITHESOME.1

BLITHESOMENESS, n. The quality of being blithesome; gayety. NWAD BLITHESOMENESS.1

BLOAT, v.t. [This word may be allied to bladder, from the sense of inflating, swelling.] NWAD BLOAT.1

1. To swell or make turgid, as with air; to inflate; to puff up; hence, to make vain; followed by up, but without necessity. To bloat up with praise is less elegant than to bloat with praise. NWAD BLOAT.2

2. To swell or make turgid with water, or other means; as a bloated limb. It is used to denote a morbid enlargement, often accompanied with softness. NWAD BLOAT.3

BLOAT, v.i. To grow turgid; to dilate. NWAD BLOAT.4

BLOAT, a. Swelled; turgid. [Not used.] NWAD BLOAT.5

BLOATED, pp. Swelled; grown turgid; inflated. NWAD BLOATED.1

BLOATEDNESS, n. A turgid state; turgidness; dilation from inflation, debility, or any morbid cause. NWAD BLOATEDNESS.1

BLOATING, ppr. Swelling; inflating. NWAD BLOATING.1

BLOBBER, n. A bubble; pronounced by the common people in America, blubber, It is a legitimate word, but not elegant. NWAD BLOBBER.1

BLOBBERLLIP, n. [blobber and lip.] A thick lip. NWAD BLOBBERLLIP.1

BLOBBERLIPPED, a. Having thick lips. NWAD BLOBBERLIPPED.1

BLOCK, n. NWAD BLOCK.1

1. A heavy piece of timber or wood, usually with one plain surface; or it is rectangular, and rather thick than long. NWAD BLOCK.2

2. Any mass of matter with an extended surface; as a block of marble, a piece rough from the quarry. NWAD BLOCK.3

3. A massy body, solid and heavy; a mass of wood, iron, or other metal, with at least one plain surface, such as artificers use. NWAD BLOCK.4

4. The wood on which criminals are beheaded. NWAD BLOCK.5

5. Any obstruction, or cause of obstruction; a stop; hindrance; obstacle. NWAD BLOCK.6

6. A piece of wood in which a pulley runs; used also for the pulley, or the block itself and the sheaves, or wheels. NWAD BLOCK.7

7. A blockhead; a stupid fellow. NWAD BLOCK.8

8. Among cutters in wood, a form made of hard wood, on which they cut figures in relief with knives, chisels, etc. NWAD BLOCK.9

9. In falconry, the perch whereon a bird of prey is kept. NWAD BLOCK.10

BLOCK, v.t. To inclose or shut up, so as to hinder egress or passage; to stop up; to obstruct, by placing obstacles in the way; often followed by up; as, to block up a town, or a road. NWAD BLOCK.11

BLOCKADE, n. The siege of a place, formed by surrounding it with hostile troops or ships, or by posting them at all the avenues, to prevent escape, and hinder supplies of provisions and ammunition from entering, with a view to compel a surrender, by hunger and want, without regular attacks. NWAD BLOCKADE.1

To constitute a blockade, the investing power must be able to apply its force to every point of practicable access, so as to render it dangerous to attempt to enter; and there is no blockade of that port, where its force cannot be brought to bear. NWAD BLOCKADE.2

BLOCKADE, v.t. To shut up a town or fortress, by posting troops at all the avenues, to compel the garrison or inhabitants to surrender by means of hunger and want, without regular attacks; also, to station ships of war to obstruct all intercourse with a town or nation. NWAD BLOCKADE.3

BLOCKADED, pp. Shut up or inclosed by an enemy. NWAD BLOCKADED.1

BLOCKADING, ppr. Besieging by a blockade. NWAD BLOCKADING.1

BLOCKHEAD, n. [block and head.] A stupid fellow; a dolt; a person deficient in understanding. NWAD BLOCKHEAD.1

BLOCKHEADED, a. Stupid; dull. NWAD BLOCKHEADED.1

BLOCKHEADLY, a. Like a blockhead. NWAD BLOCKHEADLY.1

BLOCKHOUSE, n. [block and house.] A house or fortress, erected to block up a pass, and defend against the entrance of an enemy. NWAD BLOCKHOUSE.1

BLOCKISH, a. Stupid; dull; deficient in understanding. NWAD BLOCKISH.1

BLOCKISHLY, adv. In a stupid manner. NWAD BLOCKISHLY.1

BLOCKISHNESS, n. Stupidity; dullness. NWAD BLOCKISHNESS.1

BLOCKLIKE, a. Like a block; stupid. NWAD BLOCKLIKE.1

BLOCK-TIN, n. [block and tin.] Tin which is pure, unmixed, and unwrought. NWAD BLOCK-TIN.1

BLOMARY, n. [See Bloom, a mass if iron.] The first forge through which iron passes, after it is melted from the ore. NWAD BLOMARY.1

BLONKET, a. Gray. [Not used.] NWAD BLONKET.1

BLOOD, n. NWAD BLOOD.1

1. The fluid which circulates through the arteries and veins of the human body, and of other animals, which is essential to the preservation of life. This fluid is generally red. If the blood of an animal is not red, such animal is called exsanguious, or white-blooded; the blood being white, or white tinged with blue. NWAD BLOOD.2

2. Kindred; relation by natural descent from a common ancestor; consanguinity. NWAD BLOOD.3

God hath made of one blood, all nations of the earth. Acts 17:26. NWAD BLOOD.4

3. Royal lineage; blood royal; as a prince of the blood. NWAD BLOOD.5

4. Honorable birth; high extraction; as a gentleman of blood. NWAD BLOOD.6

5. Life. NWAD BLOOD.7

Shall I not require his blood at your hands? 2 Samuel 4:11. NWAD BLOOD.8

6. Slaughter; murder, or bloodshedding. NWAD BLOOD.9

I will avenge the blood of Jezreel upon the house of Jehu. Hosea 1:4. NWAD BLOOD.10

The voice of thy brother’s blood crieth to me from the ground. Genesis 4:10. NWAD BLOOD.11

7. Guilt, and punishment. NWAD BLOOD.12

Your blood be upon your own heads. Acts 18:6. NWAD BLOOD.13

8. Fleshly nature; the carnal part of man; as opposed to spiritual nature, or divine life. NWAD BLOOD.14

Who were born, not of flesh and blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. John 1:13. NWAD BLOOD.15

9. Man, or human wisdom, or reason. NWAD BLOOD.16

Flesh and blood hath not revealed it to thee, but my Father who is in heaven. Matthew 16:17. NWAD BLOOD.17

10. A sacramental symbol of the blood of Christ. NWAD BLOOD.18

This is my blood of the New Testament, which is shed for the remission of sins. Matthew 26:28. NWAD BLOOD.19

11. The death and sufferings of Christ. NWAD BLOOD.20

Being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him. Romans 5:9. NWAD BLOOD.21

12. The price of blood; that which is obtained by shedding blood, and seizing goods. NWAD BLOOD.22

Wo to him that buildeth a town with blood. Habakkuk 2:12; Acts 1:19. NWAD BLOOD.23

13. Temper of mind; state of the passions; but in this sense, accompanied with cold or warm, or other qualifying word. Thus to commit an act in cold blood, is to do it deliberately, and without sudden passion. Warm blood denotes a temper inflamed or irritated; to warm or head the blood, is to excite the passions. NWAD BLOOD.24

14. A hot spark; a man of fire or spirit; a rake. NWAD BLOOD.25

15. The juice of any thing, especially if red; as, “the blood of grapes.” Genesis 49:11. NWAD BLOOD.26

Whole blood. In law, a kinsman of the whole blood is one who descends from the same couple of ancestors; of the half blood, one who descends from either of them singly, by a second marriage. NWAD BLOOD.27

BLOOD, v.t. To let blood; to bleed by opening a vein. NWAD BLOOD.28

1. To stain with blood. NWAD BLOOD.29

2. To enter; to inure to blood; as a hound. NWAD BLOOD.30

3. To heat the blood; to exasperate. [Unusual.] NWAD BLOOD.31

BLOOD-BESPOTTED, a. Spotted with blood. NWAD BLOOD-BESPOTTED.1

BLOOD-BOLTERED, a. [blood and bolter.] Sprinkled with blood. [Not used.] NWAD BLOOD-BOLTERED.1

BLOOD-CONSUMING, a. Wasting the blood. NWAD BLOOD-CONSUMING.1

BLOODED, pp. Bled; stained with blood; inured to blood. NWAD BLOODED.1

BLOOD-FLOWER, n. [blood and flower.] Haemanthus, a genus of plants, natives of the Cape of Good Hope. NWAD BLOOD-FLOWER.1

BLOOD-FROZEN, a. Having the blood chilled. NWAD BLOOD-FROZEN.1

BLOODGUILTINESS, n. [blood and guilt.] The guilt or crime of shedding blood. Psalm 51:14. NWAD BLOODGUILTINESS.1

BLOOD-HOT, a. [blood and hot.] As warm as blood in its natural temperature. NWAD BLOOD-HOT.1

BLOOD-HOUND, n. [blood and hound.] A species of canis or dog, with long, smooth and pendulous ears, remarkable for the acuteness of its smell, and employed to recover game which had escaped wounded from the hunter, by tracing the lost animal by the blood it had spilt; whence the name of the dog. NWAD BLOOD-HOUND.1

BLOODILY, adv. In a bloody manner; cruelly; with a disposition to shed blood. NWAD BLOODILY.1

BLOODINESS, n. The state of being bloody; disposition to shed blood. NWAD BLOODINESS.1

BLOODING, ppr. Letting blood; staining with blood; inuring to blood, as a hound. NWAD BLOODING.1

BLOODLESS, a. Without blood; dead. NWAD BLOODLESS.1

1. Without shedding of blood or slaughter; as a bloodless victory. NWAD BLOODLESS.2

2. Without spirit or activity. NWAD BLOODLESS.3

BLOOD-LET, v.t. To bleed; to let blood. NWAD BLOOD-LET.1

BLOOD-LETTER, n. One who lets blood, as in diseases; a phlebotomist. NWAD BLOOD-LETTER.1

BLOODLETTING, n. [blood and let.] The act of letting blood, or bleeding by opening a vein. NWAD BLOODLETTING.1

BLOODPUDDING, n. [blood and pudding.] A pudding made with blood and other materials. NWAD BLOODPUDDING.1

BLOOD-RED, n. Red as blood. NWAD BLOOD-RED.1

BLOOD-ROOT, n. A plant so named from its color; a species of sanguinaria, called also puccoon, turmeric and red root. NWAD BLOOD-ROOT.1

BLOODSHED, n. [blood and shed.] The shedding or spilling of blood; slaughter; waste of life; the crime of shedding blood. NWAD BLOODSHED.1

BLOODSHEDDER, n. One who sheds blood; a murderer. NWAD BLOODSHEDDER.1

BLOODSHEDDING, n. The shedding of blood; the crime of shedding blood. NWAD BLOODSHEDDING.1

BLOODSHOT, a. [blood and shoot.] Red and inflamed by a turgid state of the blood vessels, as in diseases of the eye. NWAD BLOODSHOT.1

BLOODSNAKE, n. A species of snake, the haemorrhus. NWAD BLOODSNAKE.1

BLOOD-SPAVIN, n. [blood and spavin.] A dilatation of the vein that runs along the inside of the hock of a horse, forming a soft swelling. NWAD BLOOD-SPAVIN.1

BLOOD-STAINED, a. Stained with blood; also, guilty of murder. NWAD BLOOD-STAINED.1

BLOODSTONE, n. [blood and stone.] A stone, imagined, if worn as an amulet, to be a good preventive of bleeding at the nose. [See Hematite.] NWAD BLOODSTONE.1

BLOOD-SUCKER, n. [blood and suck.] Any animal that sucks blood, as a leech, a fly, etc. A cruel man; a murderer. NWAD BLOOD-SUCKER.1

BLOOD-SUCKING, a. That sucks or draws blood. NWAD BLOOD-SUCKING.1

BLOOD-THIRSTY, a. [blood and thirst.] Desirous to shed blood; murderous. NWAD BLOOD-THIRSTY.1

BLOOD-VESSEL, n. [blood and vessel.] Any vessel in which blood circulates in an animal body; an artery or a vein. NWAD BLOOD-VESSEL.1

BLOOD-WARM, a. Warm as blood; luke warm. NWAD BLOOD-WARM.1

BLOOD-WITE, n. [blood and wite, a fine or penalty.] NWAD BLOOD-WITE.1

In ancient law, a fine or amercement, paid as a composition for the shedding of blood. NWAD BLOOD-WITE.2

BLOOD-WOOD, n. [blood and wood.] A name given to log-wood, from its color. NWAD BLOOD-WOOD.1

BLOOD-WORT, n. [blood and wort.] A plant, a species of Rumex. NWAD BLOOD-WORT.1

BLOODY, a. Stained with blood. NWAD BLOODY.1

1. Cruel; murderous; given to the shedding of blood; or having a cruel, savage disposition; applied to animals. NWAD BLOODY.2

2. Attended with bloodshed; marked by cruelty; applied to things; as a bloody battle. NWAD BLOODY.3

BLOODY, v.t. To stain with blood. NWAD BLOODY.4

BLOODY, adv. Very; as bloody sick, bloody drunk. [This is very vulgar.] NWAD BLOODY.5

BLOODY-EYED, a. Having bloody or cruel eyes. NWAD BLOODY-EYED.1

BLOODY-FACED, a. Having a bloody face or appearance. NWAD BLOODY-FACED.1

BLOODY-FLUX, n. [blood and flux.] The dysentery, a disease in which the discharges from the bowels have a mixture of blood. NWAD BLOODY-FLUX.1

BLOODY-HAND, n. [blood and hand.] A hand stained with the blood of a deer, which, in the old forest laws of England, was sufficient evidence of a man’s trespass in the forest against venison. NWAD BLOODY-HAND.1

BLOODY-HUNTING, a. Hunting for blood. NWAD BLOODY-HUNTING.1

BLOODY-MINDED, a. [blood and mind.] Having a cruel, ferocious disposition; barbarous; inclined to shed blood. NWAD BLOODY-MINDED.1

BLOODY-RED, a. Having the color blood. NWAD BLOODY-RED.1

BLOODY-SCEPTERED, a. Having a scepter obtained by blood or slaughter. NWAD BLOODY-SCEPTERED.1

BLOODY-SWEAT, n. [blood and sweat.] A sweat, accompanied by a discharge of blood; also a disease, called sweating sickness, which formerly prevailed in England and other countries. NWAD BLOODY-SWEAT.1

BLOOM, n. NWAD BLOOM.1

1. Blossom; the flower of a plant; an expanded bud. NWAD BLOOM.2

While opening blooms diffuse their sweets around. NWAD BLOOM.3

2. The opening of flowers in general; flowers open, or in a state of blossoming; as, the trees are clothed with bloom. NWAD BLOOM.4

3. The state of youth, resembling that of blossoms; a state of opening manhood, life, beauty, and vigor; a state of health and growth, promising higher perfection; as the bloom of youth. NWAD BLOOM.5

4. The blue color upon plums and grapes newly gathered. NWAD BLOOM.6

BLOOM, v.i. To produce or yield blossoms; to flower. NWAD BLOOM.7

1. To be in a state of healthful, growing youth and vigor; to show the beauty of youth; as blooming graces. NWAD BLOOM.8

BLOOM, v.t. To put forth as blossoms. NWAD BLOOM.9

Charitable affection bloomed them. [Not in use.] NWAD BLOOM.10

BLOOM, n. [L. plumbum, lead, properly a lump.] NWAD BLOOM.11

A mass of iron that has passed the blomary, or undergone the first hammering. NWAD BLOOM.12

BLOOMING, ppr. Opening in blossoms; flowering; thriving in the health, beauty, and vigor of youth; showing the beauties of youth. NWAD BLOOMING.1

His blooming laurels graced the muse’s seat. NWAD BLOOMING.2

BLOOMINGLY, adv. In a blooming manner. NWAD BLOOMINGLY.1

BLOOMY, a. Full of bloom; flowery; flourishing with the vigor of youth; as a bloomy spray; bloomy beauties. NWAD BLOOMY.1

BLORE, n. [This is a different orthography of blare, which see.] NWAD BLORE.1

The act of blowing; a blast. [Not used.] NWAD BLORE.2

BLOSSOM, n. [Gr. a bud, probably from the same root.] NWAD BLOSSOM.1

1. The flower or corol of a plant; a general term, applicable to every species of tree or plant, but more generally used than flower or bloom, when we have reference to the fruit which is to succeed. Thus we use flowers, when we speak of shrubs cultivated for ornament; and bloom, in a more general sense, as flowers in general, or in reference to the beauty of flowers. NWAD BLOSSOM.2

2. This word is used to denote the color of a horse, that has his hair white, but intermixed with sorrel and bay hairs; otherwise, peach-colored. NWAD BLOSSOM.3

BLOSSOM, v.i. To put forth blossoms or flowers; to bloom; to blow; to flower. NWAD BLOSSOM.4

1. To flourish and prosper. NWAD BLOSSOM.5

The desert shall blossom as the rose. Isaiah 35:1. NWAD BLOSSOM.6

BLOSSOMING, ppr. Putting forth flowers; blowing. NWAD BLOSSOMING.1

BLOSSOMING, n. The blowing or flowering of plants. NWAD BLOSSOMING.2

BLOT, v.t. [L. litura, [whence lituro, oblitero.] without the prefix.] NWAD BLOT.1

1. To spot with ink; to stain or bespatter with ink; as, to blot a paper. NWAD BLOT.2

2. To obliterate writing or letters with ink, so as to render the characters invisible, or not distinguishable; generally with out; as, to blot out a word or a sentence. NWAD BLOT.3

3. To efface; to erase; to cause to be unseen, or forgotten; to destroy; as, to blot out a crime, or the remembrance of any thing. NWAD BLOT.4

4. To stain with infamy; to tarnish;; to disgrace; to disfigure. NWAD BLOT.5

Blot not thy innocence with guiltless blood. NWAD BLOT.6

5. To darken NWAD BLOT.7

He sung how earth blots the moon’s gilded wane. NWAD BLOT.8

6. In scripture, to blot one out of the book of life, is to reject him from the number of those who are to be saved. To blot out a name, a person or a nation, is to destroy the person or nation; to exterminate or consume. To blot out sins, is to forgive them. Sins are compared to debts, which are recorded in God’s book of remembrance, and when paid, are crossed or cancelled. NWAD BLOT.9

BLOT, n. A spot or stain on paper, usually applied to ink. NWAD BLOT.10

1. An obliteration of something written or printed. NWAD BLOT.11

2. A spot in reputation; a stain, a disgrace; a reproach; a blemish. NWAD BLOT.12

3. Censure; scorn; reproach. NWAD BLOT.13

He that rebuketh the wicked getteth a blot. Proverbs 9:7. NWAD BLOT.14

4. In backgammon, when a single man lies open to be taken up. NWAD BLOT.15

BLOTCH, n. A pustule upon the skin; an eruption, usually of a large kind. NWAD BLOTCH.1

BLOTCH, v.t. To blacken. NWAD BLOTCH.2

BLOTE, v.t. [The affinities of this word are not clearly ascertained.] NWAD BLOTE.1

To dry and smoke; as, to blote herrings. NWAD BLOTE.2

BLOTED, pp. Smoked and dried. NWAD BLOTED.1

BLOTTED, pp. Stained; spotted; erased. NWAD BLOTTED.1

BLOTTER, n. In counting houses, a waste book. NWAD BLOTTER.1

BLOTTING, ppr. Spotting with ink; obliterating; staining. NWAD BLOTTING.1

BLOW, n. [This probably is a contracted word, and the primary sense must be, to strike, thrust, push, or throw, that is, to drive. I have not found it in the cognate dialects. If g or other palatal letter is lost, it corresponds in elements with the L. plaga fligo; Eng. flog.] NWAD BLOW.1

1. The act of striking; more generally the stroke; a violent application of the hand, fist, or an instrument to an object. NWAD BLOW.2

2. The fatal stroke; a stroke that kills; hence, death. NWAD BLOW.3

3. An act of hostility; as, the nation which strikes the first blow. Hence, to come to blows, is to engage in combat, whether by individuals, armies, fleets or nations; and when by nations, it is war. NWAD BLOW.4

4. A sudden calamity; a sudden or severe evil. In like manner, plaga in Latin gives rise to the Eng. plague. NWAD BLOW.5

5. A single act; a sudden event; as, to gain or lose a province at a blow, or by one blow. NWAD BLOW.6

At a stroke is used in like manner. NWAD BLOW.7

6. An ovum or egg deposited by a fly, on flesh or other substance, called a fly-blow. NWAD BLOW.8

BLOW, v.t. pret. blew; pp. blown. [L. flo, to blow. This word probably is from the same root as bloom, blossom, blow, a flower.] NWAD BLOW.9

1. To make a current of air; to move as air; as, the wind blows. Often used with it; as, it blows a gale. NWAD BLOW.10

2. To pant; to puff; to breathe hard or quick. NWAD BLOW.11

Here is Mrs. Page at the door, sweating and blowing. NWAD BLOW.12

3. To breathe; as, to blow hot and cold. NWAD BLOW.13

4. To sound with being blown, as a horn or trumpet. NWAD BLOW.14

5. To flower; to blossom; to bloom; as plants. NWAD BLOW.15

How blows the citron grove. NWAD BLOW.16

To blow over, to pass away without effect; to cease or be dissipated; as, the storm or the clouds are blown over. NWAD BLOW.17

To blow up, to rise in the air; also, to be broken and scattered by the explosion of gunpowder. NWAD BLOW.18

BLOW, v.t. To throw or drive a current of air upon; as, to blow the fire; also, to fan. NWAD BLOW.19

1. To drive by a current of air; to impel; as, the tempest blew the ship ashore. NWAD BLOW.20

2. To breathe upon, for the purpose of warming; as, to blow the fingers in a cold day. NWAD BLOW.21

3. To sound a wind instrument; as, blow the trumpet. NWAD BLOW.22

4. To spread by report. NWAD BLOW.23

And through the court his courtesy was blown. NWAD BLOW.24

5. To deposit eggs, as flies. NWAD BLOW.25

6. To form bubbles by blowing. NWAD BLOW.26

7. To swell and inflate, as veal; a practice of butchers. NWAD BLOW.27

8. To form glass into a particular shape by the breath, as in glass manufactories. NWAD BLOW.28

9. To melt tin, after being first burnt to destroy the mundic. NWAD BLOW.29

To blow away, to dissipate; to scatter with wind. NWAD BLOW.30

To blow down, to prostrate by wind. NWAD BLOW.31

To blow off, to shave down by wind, as to blow off fruit from trees; to drive from land, as to blow off a ship. NWAD BLOW.32

To blow out, to extinguish by a current of air, as a candle. NWAD BLOW.33

To blow up, to fill with air; to swell; as, to blow up a bladder or a bubble. NWAD BLOW.34

10. To inflate; to puff up; as, to blow up one with flattery. NWAD BLOW.35

11. To kindle; as, to blow up a contention. NWAD BLOW.36

12. To burst, to raise into the air, or to scatter, by the explosion of gunpowder. Figuratively, to scatter or bring to naught suddenly; as, to blow up a scheme. NWAD BLOW.37

To blow upon, to make stale; as, to blow upon an author’s works. NWAD BLOW.38

BLOW, n. A flower; a blossom. This word is in general use in the U. States, and legitimate. In the Tatler, it is used for blossoms in general, as we use blowth. NWAD BLOW.39

1. Among seamen, a gale of wind. This also is a legitimate word, in general use in the U. States. NWAD BLOW.40