Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Dictionary: BLAST'ING – BLEACH
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BLAST'ING, ppr.
Affecting by a blast; preventing from coming to maturity; frustrating; splitting by an explosion of gunpowder.
BLAST'MENT, n.
Blast; sudden stroke of some destructive cause. [Superseded by blast and blasting.] – Shak.
BLAS-TO-CARP'OUS, a. [Gr. βλαστος, germ, and καρπος, fruit.]
In botany, germinating on the inside of the pericarp.
BLA'TANT, a. [See Bleat.]
Bellowing as a calf. [Not used.] – Dryden.
BLAT'TER, v.i. [From the root of bleat.]
To make a senseless noise.
BLAT'TER-ER, n.
A noisy blustering boaster. [Not used.] – Spenser.
BLAT'TER-ING, n.
Senseless blustering.
BLAT'TER-ING, ppr.
Blustering.
BLAY, n. [See Bleak.]
A small river fish, the bleak. – Ainsworth. Johnson.
BLAZE, n. [Sw. blåsa; G. blasen; D. blaazen; Dan. blæser, to blow, and D. blusser, to burn, blaze, glisten; Eng. to blush; Sax. blaze, a lamp or torch; Dan. blus; Fr. blaser. The word seems primarily to express rushing or flowing, or violent agitation, and expansion.]
- Flame; the stream of light and heat from any body when burning, proceeding from the combustion of inflammable gas.
- Publication; wide diffusion of report. In this sense, we observe the radical sense of dilatation, as well as that of light.
- A white spot on the forehead or face of a horse, descending nearly to the nose.
- Light; expanded light; as, the blaze of day.
- Noise; agitation; tumult.
BLAZE, v.i.
- To flame; as, the fire blazes.
- To send forth or show a bright and expanded light. The third fair morn now blazed upon the main. – Pope.
- To be conspicuous.
BLAZE, v.t.
- To make public far and wide. To blaze those virtues which the good would hide. – Pope.
- To blazon. [Not used. See Blazon.] – Peacham.
- To set a white mark on a tree, by paring off a part of the bark. – Chalmers.
BLAZ'ED, pp.
Published far and wide.
BLAZ'ER, n.
One who publishes and spreads reports.
BLAZ'ING, a.
Emitting flame, or light; as, a blazing star.
BLAZ'ING, ppr.
Flaming; publishing far and wide.
BLAZ'ING-STAR, n.
A comet; a star that is accompanied with a coma or train of light.
BLA'ZON, n.
- The art of drawing, describing or explaining coats of arms; perhaps a coat of arms, as used by the French. – Peacham.
- Publication; show; celebration; pompous display, either by words or by other means.
BLA'ZON, v.t. [bla'zn; Fr. blasonner; It. blasonare; Sp. blasonar, to blazon; blason, heraldry. It is a derivative of blaze.]
- To explain, in proper terms, the figures on ensigns armorial. – Addison.
- To deck; to embellish; to adorn. She blazons in dread smiles her hideous form. – Garth.
- To display; to set to show; to celebrate by words or writing. – Shak.
- To blaze about; to make public far and wide.
- To display; to exhibit conspicuously. There pride sits blason'd on th' unmeaning brow. – Trumbull.
BLA'ZON-ED, pp.
Explained, deciphered in the manner of heralds; published abroad; displayed pompously.
BLA'ZON-ER, n.
One that blazons; a herald; an evil speaker or propagator of scandal.
BLA'ZON-ING, ppr.
Explaining, describing as heralds; showing; publishing; blazing abroad; displaying.
BLA'ZON-RY, n.
The art of describing coats of arms in proper terms.
BLEA, n.
The part of a tree which lies immediately under the bark. [I believe not used.] – Chambers.
BLEACH, v.i.
To grow white in any manner. – Shak.