Emily Dickinson Lexicon

BLUR'RED, pp.

Darkened or stained; obscured.

BLUR'RING, ppr.

Darkening or staining; spotting.

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

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

BLURT'ED, pp.

Thrown out hastily.

BLURT'ING, pp.

Throwing out or uttered hastily.

BLUSH, n.

1. 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. The rosy blush of love. – Trumbull.
2. A red or reddish color.
3. Sudden appearance; a glance; a sense taken from the sudden suffusion of the face in blushing; as, a proposition appears absurd at first blush. – Locke.

BLUSH, v.i. [D. bloozen; Sw. blyas, to blush; Dan. blusser, to blaze or glisten; blussel, blushing; D. blos, a blush; Sw. bloss; Dan. blus, a torch; Dan. blues ved, to blush or be ashamed; Ir. loise, loisi, flame. It implies a throwing out, or spreading. Flash may be from the same root. See Blaze.]

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. In the presence of the shameless and unblushing, the young offender is ashamed to blush. – Buckminster.
2. To bear a blooming red color, or any soft bright color; as, the blushing rose. He bears his blushing honors thick upon him. – Shak. Shakspeare has used this word in a transitive sense, to make red, and it may be allowable in poetry.

BLUSH'ET, a.

A young modest girl. [Not used.]

BLUSH'FUL, a.

Full of blushes. – Thomson.

BLUSH'FUL-LY, adv.

In a blushful manner.

BLUSH'ING, ppr.

Reddening in the cheeks or face; bearing a bright color.

BLUSH'ING-LY, adv.

In a blushing manner.

BLUSH'LESS, a.

Unblushing; past blushing; impudent. – Marston.

BLUSH'Y, a.

Like a blush; having the color of a blush. – Harvey.

BLUS'TER, n.

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

BLUS'TER, v.i. [Sax. blæstan, to blow. Probably allied to blaze, blast; Dan. blusser, to blaze, to rage.]

1. To be loud, noisy or swaggering; to bully; to puff; to swagger; as, a turbulent or boasting person.
2. To roar, and be tumultuous, as wind; to be boisterous; to be windy; to hurry.

BLUS'TER-ER, n.

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

BLUS'TER-ING, a.

Noisy; tumultuous; windy.

BLUS'TER-ING, ppr.

Making a noise; puffing; boasting.

BLUS'TER-ING-LY, adv.

In a blustering manner.

BLUS'TROUS, a.

Noisy; tumultuous; boastful. – Hudibras.

BO, exclam. [W. bw.]

A word of terror; a customary sound uttered by children to frighten their fellows.

BO'A, 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. – Cyc.

BO-AN-ER'GES, n.

Sons of thunder. Matth. iii.

BOAR, n. [Sax. bar; Corn. bora, a boar; D. beer, a bear or boar; Ger. eber, a boar, and a gimlet or auger; also, eber-schwein, boar-swine. Qu. L. aper, and verres; Sans. varaha.]

The male of swine not castrated.