BLOW-BALL — BOB-WIG

BLOW-BALL — BOB-WIG NWAD BLOW-BALL.1

BLOW-BALL, n. [blow and ball.] The flower of the dandelion. NWAD BLOW-BALL.1

BLOWER, n. One who blows; one who is employed in melting tin. NWAD BLOWER.1

1. A plate of iron for drawing up a fire in a stove chimney. NWAD BLOWER.2

BLOWING, ppr. Making a current of air; breathing quick; sounding a wind instrument; inflating; impelling by wind; melting tin. NWAD BLOWING.1

BLOWING, n. The motion of wind or act of blowing. NWAD BLOWING.2

BLOWN, pp. Driven by wind; fanned; sounded by blowing; spread by report; swelled; inflated; expanded as a blossom. NWAD BLOWN.1

BLOW-PIPE, n. [blow and pipe.] An instrument by which a blast or current of air is driven through the flame of a lamp or candle, and that flame directed upon a mineral substance, to fuse or vitrify it. NWAD BLOW-PIPE.1

Blow-pipe of the artist, a conical tube of brass, glass or other substance, usually a quarter of an inch in diameter at one end, and capillary or nearly so at the other, where it is bent nearly to a right angle. This is used to propel a jet of air from the lungs, through the flame of a lamp or candle, upon substance to be fused. NWAD BLOW-PIPE.2

Blow-pipe of the mineralogist, the same instrument substantially as the foregoing, but usually fitted with an ivory or silver mouth-piece, and with several movable jets to produce flames of different sizes. Its office is to produce instantly a furnace heat, on minute fragments of mineral substances, supported on charcoal, by platina forceps, etc. NWAD BLOW-PIPE.3

Compound Blow-pipe of Dr. Hare, invented in 1821, an instrument in which oxygen and hydrogen, propelled by hydrostatic or other pressure, coming from separate reservoirs, in the proportions requisite to form water, are made to unite in a capillary orifice, at the moment when they are kindled. The heat produced, when the focus is formed on charcoal or any non-conducting substance, is such as to melt every thing but the diamond, to burn the metals, and to dissipate in vapor, or in gaseous forms, most known substances. NWAD BLOW-PIPE.4

The blow-pipe of Newman, Clark, etc. is the compound blow-pipe of Dr. Hare, with some unimportant modifications. NWAD BLOW-PIPE.5

BLOW-POINT, n. [blow and point.] A kind of play among children. NWAD BLOW-POINT.1

BLOWTH, n. Bloom or blossom, or that which is expanded. It signifies bloom or blossoms in general, or the state of blossoming. Thus we say, trees are now in their blowth, or they have a full blowth. NWAD BLOWTH.1

BLOWZE, n. blowz. [From the same root as blush, which see.] NWAD BLOWZE.1

A ruddy fat-faced woman. NWAD BLOWZE.2

BLOWZY, a. Ruddy-faced; fat and ruddy; high colored. NWAD BLOWZY.1

BLUB, v.t. To swell. [Not in use. See Bleb.] NWAD BLUB.1

BLUBBER, n. [See Blobber, Blob and Bleb.] NWAD BLUBBER.1

1. A blobber, or bubble; a common vulgar word, but legitimate. NWAD BLUBBER.2

2. The fat of whales and other large sea animals, of which is made train-oil. It lies immediately under the skin and over the muscular flesh. NWAD BLUBBER.3

3. Sea nettle, or sea blubber, the medusa. NWAD BLUBBER.4

BLUBBER, v.i. To weep in such a manner as to swell the cheeks. NWAD BLUBBER.5

If I mistake not, this word carries with it the idea of weeping, so as to slaver. NWAD BLUBBER.6

BLUBBER, v.t. To swell the cheeks or disfigure the face with weeping. NWAD BLUBBER.7

BLUBBERED, pp. Swelled; big; turgid; as a blubbered lip. NWAD BLUBBERED.1

BLUBBERING, ppr. Weeping so as to swell the cheeks. NWAD BLUBBERING.1

BLUDGEON, n. A short stick, with one end loaded or thicker and heavier than the other, and used as an offensive weapon by low persons. NWAD BLUDGEON.1

BLUE, a. blu. One of the seven colors, into which the rays of light divide themselves, when refracted through a glass prism. There are various shades of blue, as sky-blue, or azure, Prussian blue, indigo blue, smalt blue, etc. NWAD BLUE.1

Prussian blue, a combination of the oxyd of iron with an acid called ferro-prussic. NWAD BLUE.2

BLUE, v.t. To make blue; to dye of a blue color; to make blue by heating, as metals etc. NWAD BLUE.3

BLUE-BIRD, n. [blue and bird.] A small bird, a species of Motacilla, very common in the U. States. The upper part of the body is blue, and the throat and breast, of a dirty red. It makes its nest in the hole of a tree. NWAD BLUE-BIRD.1

BLUE-BONNET, n. [blue and bonnet.] A plant, a species of Centaurea. NWAD BLUE-BONNET.1

BLUE-BOTTLE, an. [blue and bottle.] A plant, a species of Centaurea, called Cyanus, which grows among corn. This and the former plant receive their names from their blue funnel-shaped flowers. NWAD BLUE-BOTTLE.1

1. A fly with a large blue belly. NWAD BLUE-BOTTLE.2

BLUE-CAP, n. [blue and cap.] A fish of the salmon kind, with blue spots on its head. NWAD BLUE-CAP.1

BLUE-EYED, a. Having blue eyes. NWAD BLUE-EYED.1

BLUE-FISH, n. [blue and fish.] A fish, a species of Coryphaena, of the order of thoracics, found about the Bahamas, and on the coast of Cuba. NWAD BLUE-FISH.1

BLUE-HAIRED, a. Having hair of a blue color. NWAD BLUE-HAIRED.1

BLUE-JOHN, n. Among miners, fluor spar, a mineral, found in the mines of Derbyshire, and fabricated into vases and other ornamental figures. NWAD BLUE-JOHN.1

BLUELY, adv. With a blue color. NWAD BLUELY.1

BLUENESS, n. The quality of being blue; a blue color. NWAD BLUENESS.1

BLUE-THROAT, n. [blue and throat.] A bird with a tawny breast, marked with a sky-blue crescent, inhabiting the northern parts of Europe and Asia. NWAD BLUE-THROAT.1

BLUE-VEINED, a. Having blue veins or streaks. NWAD BLUE-VEINED.1

BLUFF, a. [Eng. leap, from shooting forward.] surly; blustering. NWAD BLUFF.1

BLUFF, n. A high bank, almost perpendicular, projecting into the sea; a high bank presenting a steep front. NWAD BLUFF.2

BLUFF-BOWED, a. [bluff and bow.] Having broad and flat bows. NWAD BLUFF-BOWED.1

BLUFF-HEADED, a. [bluff and head.] Having an upright stem. NWAD BLUFF-HEADED.1

BLUFFNESS, n. A swelling or bloatedness; surliness. NWAD BLUFFNESS.1

BLUISH, a. Blue in a small degree. NWAD BLUISH.1

BLUISHNESS, n. A small degree of blue color. NWAD BLUISHNESS.1

BLUNDER, v.i. [This word seems to be allied to the Gr., to err, and to flounder. The sense of the latter is to move with sudden jerks, and irregular motions.] NWAD BLUNDER.1

1. To mistake grossly; to err widely or stupidly. NWAD BLUNDER.2

2. To move without direction, or steady guidance; to plunge at an object; to move, speak or write with sudden and blind precipitance; as, to blunder upon a reason; to blunder round a meaning. NWAD BLUNDER.3

3. To stumble, as a horse; a common use of the word. NWAD BLUNDER.4

BLUNDER, n. A mistake through precipitance, or without due exercise of judgment; a gross mistake. NWAD BLUNDER.5

BLUNDERBUSS, n. [blunder.] A short gun or fire-arm, with a large bore, capable of holding a number of balls, and intended to do execution without exact aim. NWAD BLUNDERBUSS.1

BLUNDERER, n. One who is apt to blunder, or to make gross mistakes; a careless person. NWAD BLUNDERER.1

BLUNDERHEAD, n. [blunder and head.] A stupid fellow; one who blunders. NWAD BLUNDERHEAD.1

BLUNDERING, ppr. Moving or acting with blind precipitance; mistaking grossly; stumbling. NWAD BLUNDERING.1

BLUNDERINGLY, adv. In a blundering manner. NWAD BLUNDERINGLY.1

BLUNT, a. [from the root of Gr. to dull.] NWAD BLUNT.1

1. Having a thick edge or point, as an instrument; dull; not sharp. NWAD BLUNT.2

2. Dull in understanding; slow of discernment. NWAD BLUNT.3

3. Abrupt in address; plain; unceremonious; wanting the forms of civility; rough in manners or speech. NWAD BLUNT.4

4. Hard to penetrate. [Unusual.] NWAD BLUNT.5

BLUNT, v.t. To dull the edge or point, by making it thicker. NWAD BLUNT.6

1. To repress or weaken any appetite, desire or power of the mind; to impair the force of any passion which affects the mind, or of any evil or good which affects the body; as, to blunt the edge of love, of pain, or of suffering. NWAD BLUNT.7

Your ceaseless endeavors will be exerted to blunt the stings of pain. NWAD BLUNT.8

BLUNTED, pp. Made dull; weakened; impaired; repressed. NWAD BLUNTED.1

BLUNTING, ppr. Making dull; repressing; impairing. NWAD BLUNTING.1

BLUNTING, n. Restraint. NWAD BLUNTING.2

BLUNTLY, adv. IN a blunt manner; coarsely; plainly; abruptly without delicacy, or the usual forms of civility. NWAD BLUNTLY.1

BLUNTNESS, n. Want of edge or point; dullness; obtuseness; want of sharpness. NWAD BLUNTNESS.1

1. Coarseness of address; roughness of manners, rude sincerity or plainness. NWAD BLUNTNESS.2

BLUNTWITTED, a. [blunt and wit.] Dull; stupid. NWAD BLUNTWITTED.1

BLUR, n. [L. luridus.] A dark spot; a stain; a blot, whether upon paper or other substance, or upon reputation. NWAD BLUR.1

BLUR, v.t. To obscure by a dark spot, or by any foul matter, without quite effacing. NWAD BLUR.2

1. To sully; to stain; to blemish; as, to blur reputation. NWAD BLUR.3

BLURRED, pp. Darkened or stained; obscured. NWAD BLURRED.1

BLURRING, ppr. Darkening or staining; spotting. NWAD BLURRING.1

BLURT, v.t. [Allied probably to flirt, to throw.] NWAD BLURT.1

To throw out, or throw at random, hastily, or unadvisedly; to utter suddenly or inadvertently; commonly with out, and applied to words. NWAD BLURT.2

BLUSH, v.i. NWAD BLUSH.1

1. To redden in the cheeks or face; to be suddenly suffused with a red color in the cheeks or face, from a sense of guilt, shame, confusion, modesty, diffidence or surprise; followed by at or for, before the cause of blushing; as, blush at your vices; blush for your degraded country. NWAD BLUSH.2

In the presence of the shameless and unblushing, the young offender is ashamed to blush. NWAD BLUSH.3

2. To bear a blooming red color, or any soft bright color; as the blushing rose. NWAD BLUSH.4

He bears his blushing honors thick upon him. NWAD BLUSH.5

Shakespeare has used this word in a transitive sense, to make red, and it may be allowable in poetry. NWAD BLUSH.6

BLUSH, n. A red color suffusing the cheeks only, or the face generally, and excited by confusion, which may spring from shame, guilt, modesty, diffidence or surprise. NWAD BLUSH.7

The rosy blush of love. NWAD BLUSH.8

1. A red or reddish color. NWAD BLUSH.9

2. Sudden appearance; a glance; a sense taken from the sudden suffusion of the face in blushing;; as, a proposition appears absurd at first blush. NWAD BLUSH.10

BLUSHET, n. A young modest girl. [Not used.] NWAD BLUSHET.1

BLUSHING, ppr. Reddening in the cheeks or face; bearing a bright color. NWAD BLUSHING.1

BLUSHLESS, a. Unblushing; past blushing; impudent. NWAD BLUSHLESS.1

BLUSHY, a. Like a blush; having the color of a blush. NWAD BLUSHY.1

BLUSTER, v.i. [Probably allied to blaze, blast.] NWAD BLUSTER.1

1. To be loud, noisy or swaggering; to bully; to purr; to swagger; as a turbulent or boasting person. NWAD BLUSTER.2

2. To roar, and be tumultuous, as wind; to be boisterous; to be windy;; to hurry. NWAD BLUSTER.3

BLUSTER, n. Noise; tumult; boasting; boisterousness; turbulence; roar of a tempest; violent wind; hurry; any irregular noise and tumult from wind, or from vanity. NWAD BLUSTER.4

BLUSTERER, n. A swaggerer; a bully; a noisy, tumultuous fellow, who makes great pretensions from vanity. NWAD BLUSTERER.1

BLUSTERING, ppr. Making a noise; puffing; boasting. NWAD BLUSTERING.1

BLUSTERING, a. Noisy; tumultuous; windy. NWAD BLUSTERING.2

BLUSTROUS, a. Noisy; tumultuous; boastful. NWAD BLUSTROUS.1

BO, exclam. A word of terror; a customary sound uttered by children to frighten their fellows. NWAD BO.1

BOA, n. A genus of serpents, of the class Amphibia, the characters of which are, the belly and tail are furnished with scuta. It includes the largest species of serpent, the constrictor, sometimes 30 or 40 feet long. NWAD BOA.1

BOAR, n. [L. aper, and verres.] The male of swine not castrated. NWAD BOAR.1

BOAR-SPEAR, n. A spear used in hunting boars. NWAD BOAR-SPEAR.1

BOAR, v.i. The manege, a horse is said to boar, when he shoots out his nose, raising it as high as his ears, and tosses his nose in the wind. NWAD BOAR.1

BOARD, n. NWAD BOARD.1

1. A piece of timber sawed thin and of considerable length and breadth, compared with the thickness, used for building and other purposes. NWAD BOARD.2

2. A table. The table of our rude ancestors was a piece of board, perhaps originally laid upon the knees. “Lauti cibum capiunt; separata singulis sedes, et sua cuique mensa.” NWAD BOARD.3

3. Entertainment; food; diet; as, the price of board is two, five, or seven dollars a week. NWAD BOARD.4

4. A table at which a council or court is held; hence a council, convened for business, or any authorized assembly or meeting; as a board of directors. NWAD BOARD.5

5. The desk of a ship; the interior part of a ship or boat; used in the phrase, on board, aboard. In this phrase however the sense is primarily the side of the ship. To go aboard is to go over the side. NWAD BOARD.6

6. The side of a ship. NWAD BOARD.7

Now board to board, the rival vessels row. NWAD BOARD.8

To fall over board, that is, over the side; the mast went by the board. NWAD BOARD.9

Board and board, side by side. NWAD BOARD.10

7. The line over which a ship runs between tack and tack. To make a good board, is to sail in a straight line, when close hauled. NWAD BOARD.11

To make short boards, is to tack frequently. NWAD BOARD.12

8. A table for artificers to sit or work on. NWAD BOARD.13

9. A table or frame for a game; as a chess board, etc. NWAD BOARD.14

10. A body of men constituting a quorum in session; a court, or council; as a board of trustees; a board of officers. NWAD BOARD.15

BOARD, v.t. To lay or spread with boards; to cover with boards. NWAD BOARD.16

1. To enter a ship by force in combat, which answers to storming a city or fort on land. NWAD BOARD.17

2. To attack; to make the first attempt upon a man. In Spenser, to accost. NWAD BOARD.18

3. To place at board, for a compensation, as a lodger. NWAD BOARD.19

4. To furnish with food, or food and lodging, for a compensation; as, a man boards ten students. NWAD BOARD.20

BOARD, v.i. To receive food or diet as a lodger or without lodgings, for a compensation; as, he boards at the moderate price of two dollars a week. NWAD BOARD.21

BOARDABLE, a. That may be boarded, as a ship. NWAD BOARDABLE.1

BOARDED, pp. Covered with boards; entered by armed men, as a ship; furnished with food for a compensation. NWAD BOARDED.1

BOARDER, n. One who has food or diet and lodging in another’s family for a reward. NWAD BOARDER.1

1. One who boards a ship in action; one who is selected to board ships. NWAD BOARDER.2

BOARDING, ppr. Covering with boards; entering a ship by force; furnishing or receiving board, as a lodger, for a reward. NWAD BOARDING.1

BOARDING-SCHOOL, n. A school, the scholars of which board with the teacher. NWAD BOARDING-SCHOOL.1

BOARD-WAGES, n. Wages allowed to servants to keep themselves in victuals. NWAD BOARD-WAGES.1

BOARISH, a. [from boar.] Swinish; brutal; cruel. NWAD BOARISH.1

BOAST, v.i. [Gr. to inflate; L. fastus.] NWAD BOAST.1

1. To brag, or vaunt one’s self; to make an ostentatious display, in speech, of one’s own worth, property, or actions. NWAD BOAST.2

2. To glory; to speak with laudable pride and ostentation of meritorious persons or things. NWAD BOAST.3

I boast of you to them of Macedonia. St. Paul. 2 Corinthians 9:2. NWAD BOAST.4

Usually, it is followed by of; sometimes by in. NWAD BOAST.5

3. To exalt one’s self. NWAD BOAST.6

With your mouth you have boasted against me. Ezekiel 35:13 NWAD BOAST.7

BOAST, v.t. To display in ostentatious language; to speak of with pride, vanity or exultation, with a view to self-commendation. NWAD BOAST.8

Lest men should boast their specious deeds. NWAD BOAST.9

1. Magnify or exalt. NWAD BOAST.10

They boast themselves in the multitude of their riches. Psalm 49:6. NWAD BOAST.11

2. To exult in confident expectation. NWAD BOAST.12

Boast not thyself of tomorrow. Proverbs 27:1. NWAD BOAST.13

BOAST, n. Expression of ostentation, pride or vanity; a vaunting. NWAD BOAST.14

Thou makest thy boast of the law. Romans 2:23. NWAD BOAST.15

1. The cause of boasting; occasion of pride, vanity, or laudable exultation. NWAD BOAST.16

Trial by peers is the boast of the British nation. NWAD BOAST.17

BOASTER, n. One who boasts, glories or vaunts ostentatiously. NWAD BOASTER.1

BOASTFUL, a. Given to boasting; ostentatious of personal worth or actions. NWAD BOASTFUL.1

BOASTING, ppr. Talking ostentatiously; glorying; vaunting. NWAD BOASTING.1

BOASTING, n. Ostentatious display of personal worth, or actions; a glorying or vaunting. NWAD BOASTING.2

Where is boasting then? Romans 3:27. NWAD BOASTING.3

BOASTINGLY, adv. In an ostentatious manner; with boasting. NWAD BOASTINGLY.1

BOASTIVE, a. Presumptuous. [Unusual.] NWAD BOASTIVE.1

BOASTLESS, a. Without ostentation. NWAD BOASTLESS.1

BOAT, n. NWAD BOAT.1

1. A small open vessel, or water craft, usually moved by oars, or rowing. The forms, dimensions and uses of boats are very various, and some of them carry a light sail. The different kinds of boats have different names, as, long-boat, lanch, barge, pinnace, jolly-boat, cutter, yawl, ferry-boat, wherry, Moses-boat, punt, felucca, fishing-boat, perogue, etc. NWAD BOAT.2

2. A small vessel carrying a mast and sails; but usually described by another word, as a packet-boat, passage-boat, advice-boat, etc. NWAD BOAT.3

BOAT, v.t. To transport in a boat; as, to boat goods across a lake. NWAD BOAT.4

BOATABLE, a. Navigable for boats, or small river craft. NWAD BOATABLE.1

BOAT-BILL, n. [boat and bill.] A genus of birds, the Cancroma, of two species, the crested and the brown; but by some ornithologists, they are considered as varieties of the same species. They are of the grallic order, with a bill four inches long, not unlike a boat with the keel uppermost, or like the bowls of two spoons, with the hollow parts placed together. NWAD BOAT-BILL.1

BOAT-FLY or BOAT-INSECT, n. A genus of insects, hemipters, known in zoology by the generic term Notonecta. NWAD BOAT-FLY.1

BOAT-HOOK, n. [boat and hook.] an iron hook with a point on the back, fixed to a long pole, to pull or push a boat. NWAD BOAT-HOOK.1

BOATING, ppr. Transporting in boats. NWAD BOATING.1

BOATING, n. The act of practice of transporting in boats. NWAD BOATING.2

1. In Persia, a punishment of capital offenders by laying them on the back in a boat which is covered, where they perish. NWAD BOATING.3

BOATION, n. [L. boo.] A crying out; a roar. [Not used.] NWAD BOATION.1

BOATMAN, BOATSMAN, n. [boat and man.] A man who manages a boat; a rower of a boat. NWAD BOATMAN.1

BOAT-ROPE, n. [boat and rope.] A rope to fasten a boat, usually called a painter. NWAD BOAT-ROPE.1

BOAT-SHAPED, a. Having the shape of a boat; navicular; cymbiform; hollow like a boat; as the valve of some pericarps. NWAD BOAT-SHAPED.1

BOATSWAIN, n. In seamen’s language, bosn. NWAD BOATSWAIN.1

An officer on board of ships, who has charge of the boats, sails, rigging, colors, anchors, cables and cordage. His office is also, to summon the crew to their duty. to relieve the watch, assist in the necessary business of the ship, seize and punish offenders, etc. He has a mate who has charge of the long-boat, for setting forth and weighing anchors, warping, towing and mooring. NWAD BOATSWAIN.2

BOB, n. Any little round thing, that plays loosely at the end of a string, cord, or movable machine; a little ornament or pendant that hangs so as to play loosely. NWAD BOB.1

Our common people apply the word to a knot of worms, on a string, used in fishing for eels. NWAD BOB.2

1. The words repeated at the end of a stanza. NWAD BOB.3

2. A blow; a shake or jog; a jeer or flout. NWAD BOB.4

3. The ball of a short pendulum. NWAD BOB.5

4. A mode of ringing. NWAD BOB.6

5. A bob-wig. NWAD BOB.7

BOB, v.i. To play backward and forward; to play loosely against any thing. NWAD BOB.8

1. To angle, or fish for eels, or to catch eels with a bob. NWAD BOB.9

BOBANCE, n. bobans’. A boasting. [Not in use.] NWAD BOBANCE.1

BOBBED, pp. Beat of shaken; cheated; gained by fraud; deluded. NWAD BOBBED.1

BOBBIN, n. A small pin or cylindrical piece of wood, with a head, on which thread is wound for making lace. A similar instrument, bored through to receive an iron pivot, and with a border at each end, is used in spinning, to wind thread or silk on; a spool. NWAD BOBBIN.1

BOBBING, ppr. Playing back and forth; striking; cheating; angling for eels. NWAD BOBBING.1

BOBBINWORK, n. [bobbin and work.] Work woven with bobbins. NWAD BOBBINWORK.1

BOB-CHERRY, n. [bob and cherry.] Among children, a play in which a cherry is hung so as to bob against the mouth. NWAD BOB-CHERRY.1

BOBO, n. A Mexican fish, two feet long, in high esteem for food. NWAD BOBO.1

BOBSTAYS, n. [bob and stay.] Ropes to confine the bowsprit of a ship downward to the stem. NWAD BOBSTAYS.1

BOBTAIL, n. [bob and tail.] A short tail, or a tail cut short. NWAD BOBTAIL.1

1. The rabble; used in contempt. NWAD BOBTAIL.2