bluntish (bluntish)

Somewhat blunt. bluntish ne (blun'tish-nes), n. [ Tempered with an honest bluntish ne . Wood , Athenæ Oxon. (ed. 1815), II. 582. bluntly (blunt'li), adv. 1. Stupidly.-2. With out sharpne or tenuity; obtusely: as, bluntly serrate.-3. In a blunt manner; abruptly; without delicacy, or the usual forms of civil ity; in an abrupt, offhand, or curt manner; without circumlocution: as, to tell a man some thing bluntly. Fathers are Won by degrees, not bluntly as our masters Or wronged friends are. Dekker and Ford , Witch of Edmonton, i. 1. bluntne (blunt'nes), n. [ blunt + -ne .] The state or quality of being blunt. (a) Want of sharpne ; dullne ; obtusene . (b) Plainne , direct ne , or abruptne of addre ; want of ceremony in manners; rudene of manner or addre : as, "honest blunt ne ," Dryden; "bluntne of speech," Boyle . To keep up Friendship, there must be little Addre es and Applications, whereas Bluntne spoils it quickly. Selden , Table-Talk, p. 23. blunt-witted (blunt'wited), a. [ blunt + wit + -ed2. Cf. ME. "blunt of wytte," Prompt. Parv.] Dull; stupid. Blunt - witted lord, ignoble in demeanour! Shak., 2 Hen. VI., iii. 2. blur (blèr), v.; pret. and pp. blurred, ppr. blur ring. [= Sc.blore; first in early mod. E. blurre; perhaps a deflected form of blear, early mod. E. blere (see blear1 ), but it may be an independent formation. Cf. blot, blotch.] I. trans. 1. To ob None would look on her, But cast their gazes on Marina's face; Whilst ours was blurted at . Shak ., Pericles, iv. 4. II. in trans. 1. To puff or emit the breath explosively as in sleep, or contemptuously as in saying "pooh"; puff in scorn or with a contemptuous expre ion of the lips.-2. To burst out weeping.