BLANDISHMENT — BLINK

BLANDISHMENT — BLINK NWAD BLANDISHMENT.1

BLANDISHMENT, n. Soft words; kind speeches; caresses; expression of kindness; words or actions expressive of affection or kindness, and tending to win the heart. NWAD BLANDISHMENT.1

BLANK, a. NWAD BLANK.1

1. Void; empty; consequently white; as a blank paper. NWAD BLANK.2

2. White or pale; as the blank moon. NWAD BLANK.3

3. Pale from fear or terror; hence confused; confounded; dispirited; dejected. NWAD BLANK.4

Adam--astonished stood, and blank. NWAD BLANK.5

4. Without rhyme; as blank verse, verse in which rhyme is wanting. NWAD BLANK.6

5. Pure; entire; complete. NWAD BLANK.7

6. Not containing balls or bullets; as blank cartridges. NWAD BLANK.8

This word is applied to various other objects, usually in the sense of destitution, emptiness; as a blank line; a blank space, in a book, etc. NWAD BLANK.9

BLANK, n. Any void space; a void space on paper, or in any written instrument. NWAD BLANK.10

1. A lot by which nothing is gained; a ticket in a lottery which draws no prize. NWAD BLANK.11

2. A paper unwritten; a paper without marks or characters. NWAD BLANK.12

3. A paper containing the substance of a legal instrument, as a deed, release, writ or execution, with vacant spaces left to be filled with names, date, descriptions, etc. NWAD BLANK.13

4. The point to which an arrow is directed, marked with white paper. [Little used.] NWAD BLANK.14

5. Aim; shot. NWAD BLANK.15

6. Object to which any thing is directed. NWAD BLANK.16

7. A small copper coin formerly current in France, at the rate of 5 deniers Tournois. There were also pieces of three blanks, and of six; but they are now become moneys of account. NWAD BLANK.17

Blank-bar, in law, a common bar, or a plea in bar, which, in an action of trespass, is put in to oblige the plaintiff to assign the place where the trespass was committed. NWAD BLANK.18

Point-blank, in gunnery, the shot of a gun leveled horizontally. The distance between the piece, and the point where the shot first touches the ground, is called the point-blank range; the shot proceeding on a straight line, without curving. NWAD BLANK.19

BLANK, v.t. To make void; to annul. NWAD BLANK.20

1. To deprive of color, the index of health and spirits; to damp the spirits; to dispirit or confuse; as, to blank the face of joy. NWAD BLANK.21

BLANKED, pp. Confused; dispirited. NWAD BLANKED.1

BLANKET, n. NWAD BLANKET.1

1. A cover for a bed, made of coarse wool loosely woven, and used for securing against cold. Blankets are used also by soldiers, and seamen, for covering. NWAD BLANKET.2

2. A kind of pear, sometimes written after the French, blanquet. NWAD BLANKET.3

3. Among printers, woolen cloth or white baize, to lay between the tympans. NWAD BLANKET.4

BLANKET, v.t. To toss in a blanket by way of punishment; an ancient custom. The Emperor Otho used to sally forth in dark nights, and if he found a drunken man, he administered the discipline of the blanket. NWAD BLANKET.5

1. To cover with a blanket. NWAD BLANKET.6

BLANKETING, ppr. Tossing in a blanket. NWAD BLANKETING.1

BLANKETING, n. The punishment of tossing in a blanket. NWAD BLANKETING.2

1. Cloth for blankets. NWAD BLANKETING.3

BLANKLY, adv. In a blank manner; with paleness or confusion. NWAD BLANKLY.1

BLARE, v.i. [L. ploro, to dry out, to bawl, to weep.] NWAD BLARE.1

1. To roar; to bellow. [Little used.] NWAD BLARE.2

2. To sweal or melt away, as a candle. NWAD BLARE.3

This is, I believe, usually called flare. NWAD BLARE.4

BLARE, n. Roar; noise. [Little used.] NWAD BLARE.5

And sign for battle’s blare. NWAD BLARE.6

1. A small copper coin of Bern, nearly of the same value as the ratz. NWAD BLARE.7

BLASPHEME, v.t. [Gr. The first syllable is the same as in blame, blasme, denoting injury; L. loedo, loesus; The last syllable is the Gr., to speak.] NWAD BLASPHEME.1

1. To speak of the Supreme Being in terms of impious irreverence; to revile or speak reproachfully of God, or the Holy Spirit. 1 Kings 21:10, 13; Mark 3:28, 29. NWAD BLASPHEME.2

2. To speak evil of; to utter abuse or calumny against; to speak reproachfully of. NWAD BLASPHEME.3

BLASPHEME, v.i. To utter blasphemy. NWAD BLASPHEME.4

He that shall blaspheme against the Holy Spirit shall not be forgiven. Mark 3:28, 29. NWAD BLASPHEME.5

1. To arrogate the prerogatives of God. NWAD BLASPHEME.6

This man blasphemeth. Who can forgive sins but God? Matthew 9:3; Mark 2:7. NWAD BLASPHEME.7

BLASPHEMER, n. One who blasphemes; one who speaks of God in impious and irreverent terms. 1 Timothy 1:13. NWAD BLASPHEMER.1

BLASPHEMING, ppr. Uttering impious or reproachful words concerning God. NWAD BLASPHEMING.1

BLASPHEMOUS, a. Containing blasphemy; calumnious; impiously irreverent or reproachful towards God. NWAD BLASPHEMOUS.1

BLASPHEMOUSLY, adv. Impiously; with impious irreverence to God. NWAD BLASPHEMOUSLY.1

BLASPHEMY, n. An indignity offered to God by words or writing; reproachful, contemptuous or irreverent words uttered impiously against Jehovah. NWAD BLASPHEMY.1

Blasphemy is an injury offered to God, by denying that which is due and belonging to him, or attributing to him that which is not agreeable to his nature. NWAD BLASPHEMY.2

In the middle ages, blasphemy was used to denote simply the blaming or condemning of a person or thing. Among the Greeks, to blaspheme was to use words of ill omen, which they were careful to avoid. NWAD BLASPHEMY.3

1. That which derogates from the prerogatives of God. Mark 2:7. NWAD BLASPHEMY.4

BLAAST, n. [Eng. blaze, which is primarily a blowing or swelling.] NWAD BLAAST.1

1. A gust or puff of wind; or a sudden gust of wind. NWAD BLAAST.2

2. The sound made by blowing a wind instrument. NWAD BLAAST.3

3. Any pernicious or destructive influence upon animals or plants. NWAD BLAAST.4

4. The infection of any thing pestilential; a blight on plants. NWAD BLAAST.5

5. A sudden compression of air, attended with a shock, caused by the discharge of cannon. NWAD BLAAST.6

6. A forcible stream of air from the mouth, from a bellows or the like. NWAD BLAAST.7

7. A violent explosion of gun powder, in splitting rocks, and the explosion of inflammable air in a mine. NWAD BLAAST.8

8. The whole blowing of a forge necessary to melt one supply of ore; a common use of the word among workmen in forges in American. NWAD BLAAST.9

BLAST, v.t. [Literally, to strike.] To make to wither by some pernicious influence, as too much heat or moisture, or other destructive cause; or to check growth and prevent from coming to maturity and producing fruit; to blight, as trees or plants. NWAD BLAST.1

1. To affect with some sudden violence, plague, calamity, or destructive influence, which destroys or causes to fail; as, to blast pride or hopes. The figurative senses of this verb are taken from the blasting of plants, and all express the idea of checking growth, preventing maturity, impairing, injuring, destroying, or disappointing of the intended effect; as, to blast credit, or reputation; to blast designs. NWAD BLAST.2

2. To confound, or strike with force, by a loud blast or din. NWAD BLAST.3

3. To split rocks by an explosion of gun powder. NWAD BLAST.4

They did not stop to blast this ore. NWAD BLAST.5

BLASTED, pp. Affected by some cause that checks growth, injures, impairs, destroys, or renders abortive; split by an explosion of gunpowder. NWAD BLASTED.1

BLASTER, n. He or that which blasts or destroys. NWAD BLASTER.1

BLASTING, ppr. Affecting by a blast; preventing from coming to maturity; frustrating; splitting by an explosion of gun powder. NWAD BLASTING.1

BLASTING, n. A blast; destruction by a pernicious cause; explosion. NWAD BLASTING.2

BLASTMENT, n. Blast; sudden stroke of some destructive cause. [Superseded by blast and blasting.] NWAD BLASTMENT.1

BLATANT, a. [See Bleat.] Bellowing as a calf. [Not used.] NWAD BLATANT.1

BLATTER, v.i. [from the root of bleat.] NWAD BLATTER.1

To make a senseless noise. NWAD BLATTER.2

BLATTERER, n. A noisy blustering boaster. [Not used.] NWAD BLATTERER.1

BLAY, n. [See Bleak.] A small river fish, the bleak. NWAD BLAY.1

BLAZE, n. [Eng. to blush.] NWAD BLAZE.1

1. Flame; the stream of light and heat from any body when burning, proceeding from the combustion of inflammable gas. NWAD BLAZE.2

2. Publication; wide diffusion of report. In this sense, we observe the radical sense of dilatation, as well as that of light. NWAD BLAZE.3

3. A white spot on the forehead or face of a horse, descending nearly to the nose. NWAD BLAZE.4

4. Light; expanded light; as the blaze of day. NWAD BLAZE.5

5. Noise; agitation; tumult. NWAD BLAZE.6

BLAZE, v.i. To flame; as, the fire blazes. NWAD BLAZE.7

1. To send forth or show a bright and expanded light. NWAD BLAZE.8

The third fair morn now blazed upon the main. NWAD BLAZE.9

2. To be conspicuous. NWAD BLAZE.10

BLAZE, v.t. To make public far and wide. NWAD BLAZE.11

To blaze those virtues which the good would hide. NWAD BLAZE.12

1. To blazon. [Not used. See Blazon.] NWAD BLAZE.13

2. To set a white mark on a tree, by paring off a part of the bark. NWAD BLAZE.14

BLAZED, pp. Published far and wide. NWAD BLAZED.1

BLAZER, n. One who publishes and spreads reports. NWAD BLAZER.1

BLAZING, ppr. Flaming; publishing far and wide. NWAD BLAZING.1

BLAZING, a. Emitting flame, or light; as a blazing star. NWAD BLAZING.2

BLAZING-STAR, n. A comet; a star that is accompanied with a coma or train of light. NWAD BLAZING-STAR.1

BLAZON, v.t. bla’zn. NWAD BLAZON.1

1. To explain, in proper terms, the figures on ensigns armorial. NWAD BLAZON.2

2. To deck; to embellish; to adorn. NWAD BLAZON.3

She blazons in dread smiles her hideous form. NWAD BLAZON.4

3. To display; to set to show; to celebrate by words or writing. NWAD BLAZON.5

4. To blaze about; to make public far and wide. NWAD BLAZON.6

5. To display; to exhibit conspicuously. NWAD BLAZON.7

There pride sits blazon’d on th’ unmeaning brow. NWAD BLAZON.8

BLAZON, n. The art of drawing, describing or explaining coats of arms; perhaps a coat of arms, as used by the French. NWAD BLAZON.9

1. Publication; show; celebration; pompous display, either by words or by other means. NWAD BLAZON.10

BLAZONED, pp. Explained, deciphered in the manner of heralds; published abroad; displayed pompously. NWAD BLAZONED.1

BLAZONER, n. One that blazons; a herald; an evil speaker, or propagator of scandal. NWAD BLAZONER.1

BLAZONING, ppr. Explaining, describing as heralds; showing; publishing; blazing abroad; displaying. NWAD BLAZONING.1

BLAZONRY, n. The art of describing coats of arms, in proper terms. NWAD BLAZONRY.1

BLEA, n. The part of a tree, which lies immediately under the bark. NWAD BLEA.1

BLEACH, v.t. [Eng. bleak.] NWAD BLEACH.1

To whiten; to make white or whiter; to take out color; applied to many things, but particularly to cloth and thread. Bleaching is variously performed, but in general by steeping the cloth in lye, or a solution of pot or pearl ashes, and then exposing it to the solar rays. NWAD BLEACH.2

Bleaching is now generally performed, on the large scale, by means of chlorine or the oxymuriatic acid, which has the property of whitening vegetable substances. NWAD BLEACH.3

BLEACH, v.i. To grow white in any manner. NWAD BLEACH.4

BLEACHED, pp. Whitened; made white. NWAD BLEACHED.1

BLEACHER, n. One who whitens, or whose occupation is to whiten cloth. NWAD BLEACHER.1

BLEACHERY, n. A place for bleaching; as a wax bleachery. NWAD BLEACHERY.1

BLEACHING, ppr. Whitening; making white; becoming white. NWAD BLEACHING.1

BLEACHING, n. The act or art of whitening, especially cloth. NWAD BLEACHING.2

BLEAK, a. NWAD BLEAK.1

1. Pale. [But not often used in this sense, in America, as far as my observations extend.] NWAD BLEAK.2

2. Open; vacant; exposed to a free current of air; as a bleak hill or shore. This is the true sense of the word; hence cold and cheerless. A bleak wind is not so named merely from its coldness, but from its blowing without interruption, on a wide waste; at least this is the sense in America. So in Addison. “Her desolation presents us with nothing but bleak and barren prospects.” NWAD BLEAK.3

BLEAK, n. A small river fish, five or six inches long, so named from its whiteness. It belongs to the genus Cyprinus, and is known to the Londoners by the name of white bait. It is called also by contraction blay. NWAD BLEAK.4

BLEAKISH, a. Moderately bleak. NWAD BLEAKISH.1

BLEAKNESS, n. Openness of situation; exposure to the wind; hence coldness. NWAD BLEAKNESS.1

BLEAKY, a. Bleak; open unsheltered; cold; chill. NWAD BLEAKY.1

BLEAR, a. Sore, with a watery rheum; applied only to the eyes; as the blear-eyed owl. NWAD BLEAR.1

BLEAR, v.t. To make sore; to affect with soreness of eyes, or a watery humor; to make dim or partially obscure the sight. NWAD BLEAR.2

BLEAREDNESS, n. The state of being bleared, or dimmed with rheum. NWAD BLEAREDNESS.1

BLEAR-EYED, a. Having sore eyes; having the eyes dim with rheum; dim-sighted. NWAD BLEAR-EYED.1

BLEAT, v.i. [L. blatero; plaudo.] To make the noise of a sheep; to cry as a sheep. NWAD BLEAT.1

BLEAT, n. The cry of a sheep. NWAD BLEAT.2

BLEATING, ppr. or a. Crying as a sheep. NWAD BLEATING.1

BLEATING, n. The cry of a sheep. NWAD BLEATING.2

BLEB, n. [This word belongs to the root of blab, blubber.] NWAD BLEB.1

A little tumor, vesicle or blister. NWAD BLEB.2

Arsenic abounds with air blebs. NWAD BLEB.3

BLEBBY, a. Full of blebs. NWAD BLEBBY.1

BLED, pret. and pp. of bleed. NWAD BLED.1

BLEED, v.i. pret. and pp. bled. NWAD BLEED.1

1. To lose blood; to run with blood, by whatever means; as, the arm bleeds. NWAD BLEED.2

2. To die a violent death, or by slaughter. NWAD BLEED.3

The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to day. NWAD BLEED.4

3. To issue forth, or drop as blood, from an incision; to lose sap, gum or juice; as, a tree or a vine bleeds. NWAD BLEED.5

For me the balm shall bleed. NWAD BLEED.6

The heart bleeds, is a phrase used to denote extreme pain from sympathy or pity. NWAD BLEED.7

BLEED, v.t. To let blood; to take blood from, by opening a vein. NWAD BLEED.8

BLEEDING, ppr. Losing blood; letting blood; losing sap or juice. NWAD BLEEDING.1

BLEEDING, n. a running or issuing of blood, as from the nose; a hemorrhage; the operation of letting blood, as in surgery; the drawing of sap from a tree or plant. NWAD BLEEDING.2

BLEIT, a. Bashful; used in Scotland and the northern counties of England. NWAD BLEIT.1

BLEMISH, v.t. NWAD BLEMISH.1

1. Too mark with any deformity; to injure or impair any thing which is well formed, or excellent; to mar, or make defective, either the body or mind. NWAD BLEMISH.2

2. To tarnish, as reputation or character; to defame. NWAD BLEMISH.3

BLEMISH, n. Any mark of deformity; any scar or defect that diminishes beauty, or renders imperfect that which is well formed. NWAD BLEMISH.4

1. Reproach; disgrace; that which impairs reputation; taint; turpitude; deformity. NWAD BLEMISH.5

BLEMISHED, pp. Injured or marred by any mark of deformity; tarnished; soiled. NWAD BLEMISHED.1

BLEMISHING, ppr. Marking with deformity; tarnishing. NWAD BLEMISHING.1

BLEMISHLESS, a. Without blemish; spotless. NWAD BLEMISHLESS.1

BLEMISHMENT, n. Disgrace. [Little used.] NWAD BLEMISHMENT.1

BLENCH, v.i. [This evidently is the blanch of Bacon [see Blanch.] and perhaps the modern flinch.] NWAD BLENCH.1

To shrink; to start back to give way. NWAD BLENCH.2

BLENCH, v.t. To hinder or obstruct, says Johnson. But the etymology explains the passage he cites in a different manner. “The rebels carried great trusses of hay before them, to blench the defendants’ fight.” That is, to render the combat blank; to render it ineffectual; to break the force of the attack; to deaden the shot. NWAD BLENCH.3

BLENCH, n. A start. NWAD BLENCH.4

BLENCHER, n. That which frustrates. NWAD BLENCHER.1

BLENCH-HOLDING, n. A tenure of lands upon the payment of a small sum in silver, blanck, that is, white money. NWAD BLENCH-HOLDING.1

BLEND, n. NWAD BLEND.1

An ore of zink, called also mock-lead, false galena and black jack. Its color is mostly yellow, brown and black. There are several varieties, but in general, this ore contains more than half its weight of zink, about one fourth sulphur, and usually a small portion of iron. In chimical language, it is a sulphuret of zink. NWAD BLEND.2

BLEND, v.t. NWAD BLEND.3

1. To mix or mingle together; hence to confound, so that the separate things mixed cannot be distinguished. NWAD BLEND.4

2. To pollute by mixture; to spoil or corrupt. NWAD BLEND.5

3. To blind. NWAD BLEND.6

BLEND, v.i. To be mixed; to be united. NWAD BLEND.7

There is a tone of solemn and sacred feeling that blends with our conviviality. NWAD BLEND.8

BLENDED, pp. Mixed; confounded by mixture. NWAD BLENDED.1

BLENDER, n. One that mingles or confounds. NWAD BLENDER.1

BLENDING, ppr. Mingling together; confounding by mixture. NWAD BLENDING.1

BLENDOUS, a. Pertaining to blend. NWAD BLENDOUS.1

BLEND-WATER, n. A distemper incident to cattle, called also more-hough. NWAD BLEND-WATER.1

BLENNY, n. 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. NWAD BLENNY.1

BLENT, the obsolete participle of blend. NWAD BLENT.1

BLESS, v.t. pret. and ppr. blessed or blest. NWAD BLESS.1

1. To pronounce a wish of happiness to one; to express a wish or desire of happiness. NWAD BLESS.2

And Isaac called Jacob and blessed him. Genesis 28:1. NWAD BLESS.3

2. To make happy; to make successful; to prosper in temporal concerns; as, we are blest with peace and plenty. NWAD BLESS.4

The Lord thy God shall bless thee in all thou doest. Deuteronomy 15:18. NWAD BLESS.5

3. To make happy in a future life. NWAD BLESS.6

Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord. Revelation 14:13. NWAD BLESS.7

4. To set apart or consecrate to holy purposes; to make and pronounce holy. NWAD BLESS.8

And God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it. Genesis 2:3. NWAD BLESS.9

5. To consecrate by prayer; to invoke a blessing upon. NWAD BLESS.10

And Jesus took the five loaves and the two fishes, and looking up to heaven he blessed them. Luke 9:16. NWAD BLESS.11

6. To praise; to glorify, for benefits received. NWAD BLESS.12

Bless the Lord, O my soul, and all that is within me. Psalm 103:1. NWAD BLESS.13

7. To praise; to magnify; to extol, for excellencies. Psalm 104:1. NWAD BLESS.14

8. To esteem or account happy; with the reciprocal pronoun. NWAD BLESS.15

The nations shall bless themselves in him. Jeremiah 4:2. NWAD BLESS.16

9. To pronounce a solemn prophetical benediction upon. Genesis 27; Deuteronomy 33. NWAD BLESS.17

10. In this line of Spenser, it may signify to throw, for this is nearly the primary sense. NWAD BLESS.18

His sparkling blade about his head he blest. NWAD BLESS.19

Johnson supposes the word to signify to wave or brandish, and to have received this sense from the old rite of blessing a field, by directing the hands to all parts of it. NWAD BLESS.20

Bless in Spenser for bliss, may be so written, not for rhyme merely, but because bless and bliss are from the same root. NWAD BLESS.21

BLESSED, pp. Made happy or prosperous; extolled; pronounced happy. NWAD BLESSED.1

BLESSED, a. Happy; prosperous in worldly affairs; enjoying spiritual happiness and the favor of God; enjoying heavenly felicity. NWAD BLESSED.2

Blessed-Thistle. A plant of the genus Cnicus, sometimes used in decoctions, for a bitter. NWAD BLESSED.3

BLESSEDLY, adv. Happily; in a fortunate manner. NWAD BLESSEDLY.1

BLESSEDNESS, n. Happiness; felicity; heavenly joys; the favor of God. NWAD BLESSEDNESS.1

1. Sanctity. NWAD BLESSEDNESS.2

BLESSER, n. One that blesses or prospers; one who bestows a blessing. NWAD BLESSER.1

BLESSING, ppr. Making happy; wishing happiness to; praising or extolling; consecrating by prayer. NWAD BLESSING.1

BLESSING, n. Benediction; a wish of happiness pronounced; a prayer imploring happiness upon another. NWAD BLESSING.2

1. A solemn prophetic benediction, in which happiness is desired, invoked or foretold. NWAD BLESSING.3

This is the blessing wherewith Moses--blessed the children of Israel. Deuteronomy 33:1. NWAD BLESSING.4

2. Any means of happiness; a gift, benefit or advantage; that which promotes temporal prosperity and welfare, or secures immortal felicity. A just and pious magistrate is a public blessing. The divine favor is the greatest blessing. NWAD BLESSING.5

3. Among the Jews, a present; a gift; either because it was attended with kind wishes for the welfare of the giver, or because it was the means of increasing happiness. NWAD BLESSING.6

Take, I pray thee, my blessing that is brought to thee. Genesis 33:11. NWAD BLESSING.7

BLEST, pp. of bless. NWAD BLEST.1

BLEST, a. Made happy. NWAD BLEST.2

1. Making happy; cheering. NWAD BLEST.3

While these blest sounds my rafish’d ear assail. NWAD BLEST.4

BLETONISM, n. The faculty of perceiving and indicating subterraneous springs and currents by sensation; so called from one Bleton of France who possessed this faculty. NWAD BLETONISM.1

BLETONIST, n. One who possesses the faculty of perceiving subterraneous springs by sensation. NWAD BLETONIST.1

BLEW, pret. of blow. NWAD BLEW.1

BLEYME, n. An inflammation in the foot of a horse, between the sole and the bone. NWAD BLEYME.1

BLICEA, n. A small fish caught in the German seas, somewhat resembling the English sprat. NWAD BLICEA.1

BLIGHT, n. NWAD BLIGHT.1

1. A disease incident to plants, affecting them variously. sometimes the whole plant perishes; sometimes only the leaves and blossoms, which will shrivel, as if scorched. NWAD BLIGHT.2

2. Any thing nipping or blasting. NWAD BLIGHT.3

In America, I have often heard a cutaneous eruption on the human skin called by the name of blights. NWAD BLIGHT.4

BLIGHT, v.t. To affect with blight; to blast; to prevent growth, and fertility; to frustrate. NWAD BLIGHT.5

BLIN, v.t. To stop or cease. NWAD BLIN.1

BLIND, a. NWAD BLIND.1

1. Destitute of the sense of seeing, either by natural defect, or by deprivation; not having sight. NWAD BLIND.2

2. Not having the faculty of discernment; destitute of intellectual light; unable to understand or judge; ignorant; as authors are blind to their own defects. NWAD BLIND.3

Blind should be followed by to; but it is followed by of, in the phrase, blind of an eye. NWAD BLIND.4

3. Unseen;; out of public view; private; dark; sometimes implying contempt or censure; as a blind corner. NWAD BLIND.5

4. Dark; obscure; not easy to be found; not easily discernible; as a blind path. NWAD BLIND.6

5. Heedless; inconsiderate; undeliberating. NWAD BLIND.7

This plan is recommended neither to blind approbation or blind reprobation. NWAD BLIND.8

6. In scripture, blind implies not only want of discernment, but moral depravity. NWAD BLIND.9

BLIND, v.t. To make blind; to deprive of sight. NWAD BLIND.10

1. To darken; to obscure to the eye. NWAD BLIND.11

Such darkness blinds the sky. NWAD BLIND.12

2. To darken the understanding; as, to blind the mind. NWAD BLIND.13

3. To darken or obscure to the understanding. NWAD BLIND.14

He endeavored to blind and confound the controversy. NWAD BLIND.15

4. To eclipse. NWAD BLIND.16

BLIND, BLINDE, [See Blend, an ore.] NWAD BLIND.17

BLIND, n. Something to hinder the sight. NWAD BLIND.18

Civility casts a blind over the duty. NWAD BLIND.19

1. Something to mislead the eye or the understanding; as, one thing serves as a blind for another. NWAD BLIND.20

2. A screen; a cover; as a blind for a window, or for a horse. NWAD BLIND.21

BLINDED, pp. Deprived of sight; deprived of intellectual discernment; made dark or obscure. NWAD BLINDED.1

BLINDFOLD, a. [blind and fold.] Having the eyes covered; having the mental eye darkened. NWAD BLINDFOLD.1

BLINDFOLD, v.t. To cover the eyes; to hinder from seeing. NWAD BLINDFOLD.2

BLINDFOLDED, pp. Having the eyes covered; hindered from seeing. NWAD BLINDFOLDED.1

BLINDFOLDING, ppr. Covering the eyes; hindering from seeing. NWAD BLINDFOLDING.1

BLINDING, ppr. Depriving of sight, or of understanding; obscuring. NWAD BLINDING.1

BLINDLY, adv. Without sight, or understanding. NWAD BLINDLY.1

1. Without discerning the reason; implicitly; without examination; as, to be blindly led by another. NWAD BLINDLY.2

2. Without judgment or direction. NWAD BLINDLY.3

BLINDMAN’S BALL, n. A species of fungus, Lycoperdo, or puff-ball. NWAD BLINDMANS_BALL.1

BLINDMAN’S BUFF, n. A play in which one person is blindfolded, and hunts out the rest of the company. NWAD BLINDMANS_BUFF.1

BLINDNESS, n. Want of bodily sight; want of intellectual discernment; ignorance. NWAD BLINDNESS.1

BLINDNETTLE, n. A plant. NWAD BLINDNETTLE.1

BLINDS, n. 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 shelter the workmen, and prevent their being overlooked by the enemy. NWAD BLINDS.1

BLIND SERPENT, n. A reptile of the Cape of Good Hope, covered with black scales, but spotted with red, white and brown. NWAD BLIND_SERPENT.1

BLINDSIDE, n. [blind and side.] The side which is most easily assailed; or the side on which the party is least able or disposed to see danger; weakness; foible; weak part. NWAD BLINDSIDE.1

BLIND VESSEL, with chimists, a vessel with an opening on one side only. NWAD BLIND_VESSEL.1

BLINDWORM, n. [blind and worm.] A small reptile, called also slow worm, a species of Anguis, about eleven inches long, covered with scales, with a forked tongue, but harmless. NWAD BLINDWORM.1

BLINK, v.i. NWAD BLINK.1

1. To wink; to twinkle with the eye. NWAD BLINK.2

2. To see obscurely. Johnson. Is it not to see with the eyes half shut, or with frequent winking, as a person with weak eyes? NWAD BLINK.3

One eye was blinking and one leg was lame. NWAD BLINK.4