Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Dictionary: BLAME'FUL-NESS – BLAND'NESS
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BLAME'FUL-NESS, n.
State of being blameful.
BLAME'LESS, a.
Without fault; innocent; guiltless; not meriting censure. A bishop then must be blameless. – 1 Tim. iii. Sometimes followed by of. We will be blameless of this thine oath. – Josh. ii.
BLAME'LESS-LY, adv.
Innocently; without fault or crime. – Hammond.
BLAME'LESS-NESS, n.
Innocence; a state of being not worthy of censure. – Hammond.
BLAM'ER, n.
One who blames, finds fault, or censures.
The quality of deserving censure.
BLAME'WOR-THY, a. [blame and worthy.]
Deserving blame; censurable; culpable; reprehensible. – Martin.
BLAM'ING, ppr.
Censuring; finding fault.
BLANC'ARD, n. [Fr. blanc, white, and ard, kind.]
A kind of linen cloth manufactured in Normandy, so called because the thread is half blanched before it is wove. – Encyc.
BLANCH, v.i.
To evade; to shift; to speak softly. – Johnson. Rather, to fail or withhold; to be reserved; to remain blank, or empty. Books will speak plain, when counselors blanch. – Bacon.
BLANCH, v.t. [Fr. blanchir; It. bianchire, the l suppressed as in blame; Sp. blanquear; Port. branquear, l changed into r; Eng. blank. See Bleach.]
- To whiten; to take out the color, and make white; to obliterate. – Dryden.
- To slur; to balk; to pass over; that is, to avoid; to make empty. [Obs.] – Bacon.
- To strip or peel; as, to blanch almonds. – Wiseman.
BLANCH'ED, pp.
Whitened.
BLANCH'ER, n.
One who whitens; also, one who anneals, and cleanses money.
BLANCH-IM'E-TER, n. [blanch, and Gr. μετρον, measure.]
An instrument for measuring the bleaching power of oxymuriate [chloride] of lime, and potash. – Ure.
BLANCH'ING, ppr.
Whitening. In coinage, the operation of giving brightness to pieces of silver, by heating them on a peel, and afterwards boiling them successively in two pans of copper, with aqua fortis, common salt, and tartar of Montpelier; then draining off the water in a sieve: sand and fresh water are then thrown over them, and when dry, they are rubbed with a towel. – Encyc. The covering of iron plates with a thin coat of tin is also called blanching. – Encyc. Blanch-ferm, or blank farm, in ancient law, a white farm, was one, where the rent was paid in silver, not in cattle. – Encyc. Blanch-holding, in law, a tenure by which the tenant is bound to pay only an elusory yearly duty to his superior, as an acknowledgment to his right. – Encyc.
BLANC-MAN-GER, n. [pron. blomonge. Fr. white food.]
In cookery, a preparation of dissolved isinglass, milk, sugar, cinnamon, &c., boiled into a thick consistence, and garnished for the table with blanched almonds. – Encyc.
BLAND, a. [L. blandus; Fr. blond; G. linde, gelinde, mild, soft; Sw. lindra; G. lindern; D. linderen; Dan. lindrer; to soften or mitigate; Dan. lind, soft, mild, gentle; L. lenis, lentus; Ar. لَلَن lana, to be mild, soft, gentle, placid, smooth, lenient. See Relent.]
Mild; soft; gentle; as, bland words; bland zephyrs. – Milton. Thomson.
BLAND-A'TION, n.
Gross flattery. [Not used.]
BLAND-IL'O-QUENCE, n. [L. blandus, mild, and loquor, to speak.]
Fair, mild, flattering speech.
BLAND'ISH, v.t. [L. blandior; It. blandire; Sp. blandiar, blandir; Old Eng. blandise. Chaucer.]
To soften; to caress; to flatter by kind words or affectionate actions. – Milton.
BLAND'ISH-ER, n.
One that flatters with soft words.
BLAND'ISH-ING, n.
Blandishment.
BLAND'ISH-ING, ppr.
Soothing or flattering with fair words.
BLAND'ISH-MENT, n.
Soft words; kind speeches; caresses; expression of kindness; words or actions expressive of affection or kindness, and tending to win the heart. – Milton. Dryden.
BLAND'NESS, n.
State of being bland. – Chalmers.