Emily Dickinson Lexicon

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 [Superseded by blast and blasting.]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.]

1. Flame; the stream of light and heat from any body when burning, proceeding from the combustion of inflammable gas.
2. Publication; wide diffusion of report. In this sense, we observe the radical sense of dilatation, as well as that of light.
3. A white spot on the forehead or face of a horse, descending nearly to the nose.
4. Light; expanded light; as, the blaze of day.
5. Noise; agitation; tumult.

BLAZE, v.i.

1. To flame; as, the fire blazes.
2. To send forth or show a bright and expanded light. The third fair morn now blazed upon the main. – Pope.
3. To be conspicuous.

BLAZE, v.t.

1. To make public far and wide. To blaze those virtues which the good would hide. – Pope.
2. To blazon. [Not used. See Blazon.] – Peacham.
3. 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.

1. The art of drawing, describing or explaining coats of arms; perhaps a coat of arms, as used by the French. – Peacham.
2. 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.]

1. To explain, in proper terms, the figures on ensigns armorial. – Addison.
2. To deck; to embellish; to adorn. She blazons in dread smiles her hideous form. – Garth.
3. To display; to set to show; to celebrate by words or writing. – Shak.
4. To blaze about; to make public far and wide.
5. 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.