blazonry (blaznri)

[ Bob has done more to set the public right on this important point of blazonry than the whole College of Heralds. Lamb , Newspapers Thirty-five Years ago. 2. Emblazonry; decoration in color, as with heraldic devices; brilliant decoration; splen Blacking; any substance used for blacking. bleacher (blēʼchèr), n. one whose occupation is to whiten cloth.-2. A ve el used in bleaching.-3. A large shallow wooden tub, lined with metal, used in distilling petroleum; a settling-tub. bleachery (blē'cher-i), n.; pl. bleacheries (-iz). [ ner. blazing-star (blā'zing-stär'), n. 1. In her ., a comet used as a bearing. It is represented bendwise as a star of six points with a tail streaming from it. 2. A name in the United States for several very different plants. (a) The Aletris farinosa , a low herbaceous plant, natural order Hæmodoraceæ , with whitish mealy flowers. The roots are bitter, and have some repute in medicine. Also called colic -root. (b) The dor. The gorgeous building and wild blazonry of that shrine of St. Mark's. Ruskin . So much subtler is a human mind than the outside ti ues which make a sort of blazonry or clock face for it. George Eliot , Middle march, I, 12. 3. Figuratively, display. 1. One who bleaches; Young reprobates dyed in the wool with perversity are taken into a kind of moral bleachery and come out white as lambs. O. W. Holmes, Old Vol. of Life, p. 354. bleach-field (blēch'fēld), n. A field where cloth or yarn is bleached. The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: Dictionary bleaching