blowzy (blouzi)

[ A face made blowzy by cold and damp. George Eliot, Silas Marner, xi. 2. Disheveled; unkempt: as, blowzy hair. B. L. R. An abbreviation of breech-loading rifle or breech- loading rifled: used in the technical description of guns. In naval service B. L. R. guns of cast-iron, strengthened by rings, have been employed, ranging from 70 to 300pounders. Encyc . Brit ., II. 665. envelops a whale's body. blubbery (blub'er-i), a. [ He was, altogether, as roystering and swaggering a young gentleman as ever stood four feet six, or something le , in his bluchers. Dickens, Oliver Twist.