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a. [Goth. blantijan, to remove; Swed. and Goth. blotta, to make naked or bare; Frisian, blat; Ger. blo , bare; Dan. plet.] To stain, spot, or smear, as with ink. IMG:content-0665.png:[blocks in formation] Bloom'ington, in Arkansas , a P. O. of Benton co. Bloom'ington, in Illinois , a city and cap. of McLean -To obliterate; to expunge; as, to blot out a sentence. co., 60 m. N.N.E. of Springfield, and 126 S.S.W. of Chi "One line which, dying, he could wish to blot." - Lyttelton. ous nurseries, and is the seat of the Illinois Wesley an University and of a Roman Catholic college. The State Normal University and the Soldiers' Orphans' Home are at Normal, 2 m. distant. Pop . in 1890, 20,484; in 1897, abt. 26,400. out.) Bloom'ington, in Indiana , a city, cap. of Monroe co., 51 m. S. W. of Indianapolis. The State University is located here. It has large tanneries, hard-wood manu- -A blemish in reputation; a stigma, disgrace, reproach. factories, . Pop . in 1890, 4,018; in 1897, abt. 6,500. Bloom field, in Kentucky , a thriving post-village of Bloom'ington, in Iowa , a township of Decatur co. Nelson co., 39 m. S.W. of Frankfort. Bloom field, in Maine , a flourishing post-village and township of Somerset co., on the Kennebec River, oppo- site Skowhegan, 35 m. N. by E. of August a. The town- ship merged in that of Skowhegan in 1861. Bloom field, in Michigan , a village and township of Oakland co., 5 m. S.E. of Pontiac. Bloom field, in Minnesota , a township of Fill more co.; рор . 888. Bloom field, in Mi ouri , a post-village and cap. of Stoddard co., on Lick Creek, 280 m. S. E. of Jefferson City. Bloom field, in New Jersey, a post-village and town- ship of E ex co., 31⁄2 m. N W. of Newark, and 54 N.E. Bloom field, in Ohio , a township of Jackson co. of Trenton. -A township of Muscatine co. A post-office of Polk co. Bloom'ington, in Kansas , a village of Douglas co., on Rock Creek, 9 m. S.W. of Lawrence. Blooming ton, in Kentucky , a P. O. of Mag off in co. Blooming ton, in Minnesota , a post-village and township of Hennepin co., on the Minnesota River, 16 m. S. S. W. of Minneapolis. Bloom'ington, in Maryland , a P. O. of Garrett co. Blooming ton, in Mi ouri , a prosperous village and township of Buchanan co., 12 m. from St. Joseph. -A post-village, former cap. of Macon co., 100 m. N. by W. of Jefferson City. Bloom'ington, in Ohio, a post-village of Clinton co., 33 m. E.S.E. of Dayton. Bloom'ington, in Oregon, a village of Polk co., on the Luck a mute river, 14 m. S.E of Dallas. "Make known It is no vicious blot , murder, or foulne , That hath deprived me." Shaks. (Games.) In backgammon, when a single man is left on a point, and is liable to be taken up. Blotch, ( bloch,) n. [Probably from the root of BLOAT, q. v.] A pustule upon the skin; a tumor; a spot; an eruption. "Spots and blotches ,...straggling over the body." - Harvey. Blotched, ( blocht ,) a. Marked with blotches. ( Bot . ) Color distributed in blotches or patches. Blotch'y, a. Po e ing blotches; spotted. Blote, v . a. To smoke-dry; to cure with smoke; as a IMG:content-0666.png:[blocks in formation] Blot'tingly, adv . With blotting. Blot'ting-paper, n. Unsized paper, serving to im- "While the battle rages long and loud, And the stormy tempests blow ."-Campbell. -To sound by being blown; to sound, as a horn. " Blow , bugle, blow , set the wild echoes flying, To blow over. To pa away without anticipated effect; as, the storm has blown over. - To blow out. To talk ir- rationally or scurrilously. (Vulgar.) - To blow up . To raise into the air by sudden force; as, to be blown up by an explosion. Blow, v. a. To throw or drive wind upon; as, to blow with a bellows. -To drive or impel by wind; as, a ship was blown ashore. "Though bladed corn be lodg'd, and trees blown down."-Shaks. tiers of that queen in Sir Walter Scott's Kenilworth. In -To sound a wind-instrument; as, to blow a flute. 1594 he was made Governor of Portsmouth, and suc- ceeded his brother in the peerage, a embling some "Where the bright seraphim, in burning row, Their loud uplifted angel-trumpets blow."-Milton. troops, with which he served in the Netherlands and in -To spread by report; to circulate; as, the news has been Britt any; but the Queen was displeased at his absence, and ordered him to return to court. She made him Knight of the Garter in 1597, and gave him a military appointment in Ireland, where he suppre ed a rebellion. In 1603 he returned to England, bringing with him Tyrone, the rebel chieftain. Subsequently James I. cre- ated him Earl of Devons hire, and made him Master of the Ordnance. Towards the close of his life he fell into disgrace by marrying the divorced Lady Rich, sister of the unfortunate E ex. D. 1606. Blount, Sir HENRY, an English traveller through Tur- key, Syria, and Egypt; author of a Voyage to the Levant. B. 1602; D. 1682. Blount, in Tenne ee, an E.S.E. county, bordering on N. Carolina. Area , about 450 sq. m. The Holston River forms its N.W. boundary, while on the W. it is skirted by the Tenne ee, and intersected and drained by Little River and other streams. Surface, mountainous, and soil very fertile; limestone, iron ore, and marble are found. Cup . Marysville. Blount's Creek, in North Carolina, a post-office of Beaufort co. Blount's Ferry, in Florida , a P. O. of Columbia co. Blount's Springs, in Alabama , a much resorted-to spa of Blount co., on the Mulberry fork of Black War- rior River, 80 m. N.E. of Tuscaloosa. There are chaly- beate and sulphurous springs here. Blountsville, in Alabama , the former cap. of Blount co, on the Locust Fork of Black Warrior river. Blounts'ville, in Georgia , a village of Jones co., 16 m. W. of Milledgeville. Blounts'ville, in Indiana , a village of Delaware co., 24 m. N.W. of Centreville. Blow, ( blo .) n. [0. Ger. bliuwan , to strike; blaw , livid; Goth. bliggvan, to strike, from the blue or livid color produced on the skin by a stroke.] A stroke; a hit; a knock; stroke of death, or one that kills. And every hand that dealt the blow . Ah mel it was a brothers!" - Campbel" -A sudden calamity; an unexpected evil. We bear it calmly, though a ponderous woe, -The act of a fly when lodging eggs in flesh; also, the egg itself. "I much fear, lest with the blows of flies His bra -inflicted wounds are fill'd." Chapman. -[Ger. blüthe , a blo om.] A flower; a blo om. - A plot or bed of flowers. Blow, v . i . [A.S. blow an ; Ger. blühen. See BLOOM.] To put forth buds or flowers; to bloom; to blo om. "Fair is the kingcup that in meadow blows, Fair is the daisy that beside her grows."-Gay. -A vulgarism used in the U. States, in the sense of to vaunt, to boast, to brag. "Boy, blow the pipe until the bubble rise."-Parnell. -To warm with the breath; to infuse heat by breathing upon. "His presence soon blows up th' unkindly sight."-Dryden. -To burst; to hurl into the air by gunpowder or other projectile force; as, to blow up a ship. - To render abor- tive; to frustrate suddenly; as, to blow up a plot. - Vulgarly, to scold, abuse, or rebuke orally; as, "he blew me up sky-high." Blow'-ball, n. The floccose head of the dandelion. Blow'en, n. A slang term for a paramour; a prostitute. Blow'er, n. One who blows; a smelter of metals. -A steam-jet to create a draft of air through a chimney. -A plate of sheet-iron, zinc, or tin, placed in the upper part of a fireplace, and beneath the orifice of a chim- ney, to circumscribe the surface of the air, and hence occasion an increased current. -A blowing out, or exce ive discharge of gas, from a hole or fi ure in a mine. (Mining.) The name given, in coal mines, to the fis- sures made in hewing the coal, and from which the marsh-gas exhales with considerable force, when accu- mulated under pre ure, as is often the case. (Naut.) A name usually given by seamen to the whale, from its spouting forth an immense quantity of water. Blow'-fly, n. ( Zool . ) See SARCOPHAGA. Blow'-hole, n. A cavernous aperture at the base of a cliff, on a plane with the sea, and into which the surges dash themselves violently. - That nostril on the upper part of the head of a whale, which serves for breathing or blowing . - An orifice in the ice, where whales, seals, . inhale the air. Blow'ing, n. ( Metal .) The projecting of air into a furnace, in a strong and rapid current, for the purpose of increasing the combustion. Blow'ing Cave, in Georgia , a post-village of Decatur county. Blow'ing-machine, n. ( Metal .) An instrument for producing a current or blast of air, chiefly for the pur- pose of exciting the combustion of fuel, and producing a great heat. The common bellows is an instrument of this kind; but for certain proce es in metallurgy, as in smelting and refining ores, the intermittent blast in the double form of the machine, as used generally by blacksmiths, the defect is not altogether remedied. Various contrivances have been employed for the pur- pose of producing a continuous and equable blast, though depending generally on the principle of forcing air into large cylinders or air-chests by means of a force air-pump, and allowing it to escape by eduction pipes under a regular pre ure. For the regulation of the pre ure, the air may be forced into a ve el inverted in a reservoir of water; but as the air is chilled by its con- tact with the water, the water regulator is found to be objectionable for large blast-furnaces, and a weight is employed. Machines on this principle are in use at every foundry and great engine-manufactory; and they have this advantage, that a number of forges may be supplied from the same air-chest. Blown, p . a. Swelled: inflated; expanded, as a blo om. Usele ; stale; unprofitable. - Panting for breath; exhausted; spent; as, a blown horse. Blow-off Pipe, n. (Steam-Engineering.) The pipe fixed to the bottom of a boiler, for discharging the sed i- ment, which is effected by blowing through a portion of the water from the boiler. Blow'-pipe, n. An instrument by which a small jet of air is directed laterally into the flame of a lamp or candle, so as to divert it in a long slender cone upon a piece of charcoal or other substance, so placed as to re- ceive it. When a flame is thus urged by the B. , the ex- treme heat is just at the tip of the outer white flame, where the combustion is most perfect, and where sub- stances are rapidly burned or oxidized; while the in- terior blue flame, in consequence of its exce of com- bustible matter, abstracts oxygen from, or reduces, sub- stances; so that several metals, when thus heated be- fore the B. , are alternately oxidized and deoxidized by being placed in the outer and inner flame. The blow- pipe is of important service to the chemist, in enabling him to ascertain easily and quickly the effects of intense heat upon a variety of substances; and he frequently has recourse to it in order to distinguish metallic and earthy minerals from each other, and to ascertain, in a general way, the nature of their component parts. It is, in fact, a most important auxiliary in all cases of quali- tative analysis, and an invaluable instrument for the mining-engineer, the mineralogist, and the geologist. By holding the substance to be tested in platinum-pointed forceps, its fusibility can be determined, or some char- act eristic color may be communicated to the flame. Important facts may also be learned if the substance is placed upon charcoal, from the color of the deposit formed, the odor emitted, . By the employment of carbonate of soda, borax, or a salt of phosphorus, other important results may be attained. The art of keeping up a continuous current of air through the blow-pipe may be readily acquired. See Eldeshort's Manual of Blow - pipe Analysis and Plattner's Manual of Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis with the Blow-pipe. Blow-point, n. A child's play, resembling push - pin . IMG:content-0667.png:[blocks in formation] The American Dictionary and Cyclopedia made general of the centre of the allied army; dist in-| guished himself at Lützen and Leipzig, pursued the flying French acro the Rhine, and after a year of obstinate conflict in France, headed the right wing of the allied army under the walls of Paris, at the time of Napoleon's abdication, in 1814. In England, which he visited with the allied sovereigns, he was received with enthusiasm. Being re-invested with the command of the Pru ian army during the Hundred Days, he was defeated by Napoleon at Ligny, on June 16, 1815, on which occasion he was unhorsed and charged over by both the French and Pru ian cavalry. Marshal Grouchy was commi ioned by Napoleon to push B.'s retreat, and check his junction with the British army, which Wellington required. But having deceived Grouchy by leaving a body of his troops to mask the operation, he retrograded unmolested, by a skilful and dangerous flank movement; and his advanced division, under Bülow, arrived at Waterloo at five o'clock, just as the whole reserved élite of the French army was advancing in dense column to make their last desperate effort to break through the British squares. This fresh flank attack on the advancing column contributed greatly to decide the victory, and Blücher arrived in time to participate in the pursuit. He was a rough and fearle soldier; brave, honest, and free; beloved by his comrades, and a sworn foe to the enemies of his country. D. at his estate in Silesia, 1819, aged 77. Bluchers, (bloochurz,) n. pl . The name given, in England, to a pair of men's strong ankle-boots;-sometimes called ankle - jacks . Bludgeon, (bluj'un,) n. [Probably from Goth. blig gran, to strike; perhaps allied to Gr. plēgō , plē ō, to strike.] A short stick or cudgel, with one end heavier than the other, and used to strike blows with, as a weapon of offence. Blue, (bloo,) n. [Fr. bleu; A.S. bleo, bleoh, bleow; O. Ger. blaw, livid, sky-blue.] The color which the sky exhibits; a cerulean hue; one of the seven primary colors of the rays of light when refracted through a gla prism. ( Painting .) A great variety of blue pigments are used in the arts; they are obtained from both mineral and vegetable sources. Pru ian blue, one of the most generally used, is made from a mixture of pru iate of potash and a salt of iron. Indigo is also much used when di olved in sulphuric acid. - See COLORS; BLUE CARMINE; BLUE OCHRE, PRUSSIAN BLUE; LITMUS; BLUE VERDITER; INDIGO BLUE. (Dyeing.) Blues are generally dyed with indigo, or with Pru ian blue; in the latter case, the stuff is steeped succe ively in solutions of a salt of peroxide of iron and of ferrocyanide of pota ium. Aniline blue is also much employed for silk and woollen fabrics. -A learned woman. - See BLUE-STOCKING. -Straitlaced in morals; austere in temper; extreme; as, "Presbyterian true blue ." - Butler . -In the plural, a vulgarism and contraction for the blue devils; i. e. dejection of mind; low spirits; deliriumtremens.