blacksmithing (blaksmith"ing)

smith + -ing1.] The trade or proce of working in iron. 4. Same as black - nob . The police were used to watch the strikers or to protect the black- legs , as those are called who work outside the Union movement. R. J. Hinton , Eng. Rad. Leaders, p. 333. blackleg ism (blak'leg-izm), n. [ blackleg + -ism.] The profe ion or practices of a blackleg; cheating; swindling. Bentley's Mag . black-letter (blak'let"ėr), n. and a. I. n. A name now given to the Gothic or Old English letter, which was introduced into England about the middle of the fourteenth century, and was the character generally used in manuscripts and in the first printed books. It is still, with various modifications, in common use in Germany. This is black-letter. [ black black-snake (blak'snāk'), n. 1. A name of various serpents of a more or le black color. The most noteworthy are: ( a ) A serpent, Bas can i on con strict or , of the family Colubride , of black color, not venomous, but attaining a large size, and po e ing great strength and agility, so that it is capable of exerting much constrictive force. It climbs trees easily, is often 6 feet in length, and is common in the United States east of the Mi i ippi. Some other related species receive the same name. (b) A colubroid snake, Coluber obsoletus , differing southern Florida. IMG:content-2136.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-2137.png:[blocks in formation] blacky-top (blak'i-top), n. A name of the stonechat, Saxicola or Prat in cola rubicola . Mac- gillivray . [Local British.] blad bladı (blad), v . t .; pret. and pp. bladded , ppr. bladding . [Also blaud ; perhaps imitative. Cf. dad2 , beat, thump.] 1. To slap; strike with violence; beat.-2. To maltreat. [Scotch.] blad1 (blad), n. [ blad , v.] A slap; a flat blow. [Scotch.] blad2 (blad), n. [Also blaud ; prob. blad1 , v .; cf. dad2 , a large piece, with dad , beat, thump.] A piece; a fragment; a large piece or lump. [Scotch.] blad3 (blad), n . [Appar. = E. blade = Sw. Dan. blad , a leaf.] A portfolio; a blotting-book or blotting-pad. [Scotch.] bladder (blad'ér), n. [Sc. also blather , blether ; bladder , blader , bledder , bleder , bladdre , bleddre , bledre , blæddre , prop. with long vowel and single d, blædre , blēdre , a blister, a bladder (= MD. blæder , D. blaar = MLG. blā- dere , LG. bladere , bledder , blare = OHG. blātara , blattara, blātra , MHG. blatere , blatter , G. blatter = Icel. bladhra = Sw. bläddr a = Dan. blære , bladder), with suffix- dre , blaw an , blow: see blow1.] 1. A thin, elastic, highly distensible and contractile muscular and membranous sac forming that portion of the urinary pa ages in which urine, constantly secreted by the kid- neys, is retained until it is discharged from the body. Such a vesicle is specially characteristic of mani- mals, its size and shape varying with the species. Its cavity is primitively that of the allantois. It is lined with mu- cous membrane, is more or le invested with peritoneum, and is supplied with ve els and nerves. 2. Any similar receptacle, sac, or vesicle, com- air- bladder , brain - bladder , gall - bladder , swim- bladder .-3. Any vesicle, blister, bleb, blain, or pustule containing fluid or air.-4. In bot . : (a) A hollow membranous appendage on the leaves of Utricularia , filled with air and float- ing the plant. (b) A cellular expansion of the substance of many algse filled with air. See cut under air -cell.-5. Anything inflated, emp- ty, or unsound: as, " bladders of philosophy," Rochester , Sat. against Mankind. - Atony of the bladder. See atony . bladder (blad'er), v. t . [ bladder , n.] 1. To put up in a bladder: as, bladdered lard.-2. To puff up; fill, as with wind. [Rare.] A hollow globe of gla that long before She full of emptine had bladdered . bladder-blight (blad'er-blīt), n. See blight . bladder-brand (blad'er-brand), n. Same as bunt4 , 1. bladder-campion (blad'ér-kam"pi-on), n. The popular name of the plant Silene in flat a : so called from its inflated calyx. bladdered (blad'érd), p . a . Swelled like a blad- der; puffed up; vain. and North America have three each, and of these two are common to both countries; the fifth occurs in Silesia and the Car path i an mountains. bladder-herb (blad'er-erb), п . The winter-cherry, Physalis Al- kekengi : so called from its in- flated calyx. bladder-kelp (blad'er-kelp), n. 1. Same as bladder - wrack .-2. A seaweed of the California coast, of the genus Nereocystis , having an ex- ceedingly long stem which dilates above into a bladder several feet in length. IMG:content-2138.png:[blocks in formation] blade (blad), n. [ blad , blade , bladde, a leaf of gra or corn (not found in the general sense of 'leaf'), commonly the cutting part part of a knife or sword, the sword itself, blæd (pl. bladu , blado ), a leaf, broad part of a thing, as of an oar (= OS. blad = OFries. bled = D. blad = MLG. blat , LG. blad = OHG. MHG. blat , G. blatt = Icel. bladh = Sw. Dan. blad , a leaf), perhaps, with orig. pp. suffix -d (as in sad , cold , old, loud, etc.), bla , *blo), blow, bloom, whence also E. bloom1, blo om, akin to L. flos (flor-), > E. flower. To the same ult. root belongs perhaps L. folium = Gr. φύλλον, leaf: see folio , foill . The reg. mod. E. form would be blad (like sad , glad , etc.); the long vowel is due to the ME. inflected forms, blade , etc.] 1. The leaf of a plant, particularly (now perhaps exclusively) of gramineous plants; also, the young stalk or spire of gramineous plants. But when the blade was sprung up and brought forth fruit, then appeared the tares also. Mat. xiii. 26. Whoever could make two blades of gra to grow where only one grew before, would deserve better of than the whole race of politicians. Swift , Gulliver's Travels, ii. 7. IMG:content-2139.png:[blocks in formation] the flat, thin, cutting part of a knife or other cutting-tool The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: Dictionary IMG:content-2141.png:[blocks in formation] The blade of her light oar threw off its shower of spray. Whittier, Bridal of Penna cook. He saw a turnkey in a trice Fetter a troublesome blade . IMG:content-2142.png:[blocks in formation] blae (blā or blē), a. and n. [Sc. and North. E.; also written blea , bley , blay ; blaa , the north. dial. form (after Icel. blār , dark- blue, livi = Sw. blå = Dan. blaa , blue) blue) corre- sponding to the reg. southern blo , bloo, bloe, blowe , mod. E. dial. blow , blaw (in deriv. blæwen , bluish) = OFries. blāw , blau = MD. blā , blau , later blaeuw , blaeuw , D. blaauw = MLG. blāw , LG. blau = OHG. blão (blāw-), MHG. blā (blāw-), G. blau (whence (from OHG.) ML. blāvus , > It. biavo = OSp. blavo = Pr. fem. blava , OF. blamable, blameable (blā'ma-bl), a . [ blame + -able.] Deserving of blame or censure; faulty; culpable; reprehensible; censurable. Such feelings, though blamable , were natural and not wholly inexcusable. Macaulay, Hist. Eng., ii. blamablene , blameablene (blā'ma-bl- nes), n. The state or quality of being blam a- ble; culpability; faultine . If we are to measure degrees of blameablene , one wrong must be set off against the other. Edinburgh Rev. , CLXIV. 450. part blæw (as in blæwen ) for * blāw ), mod. E. blue , q. v.), blue, prob. (color-names are unstable in application): see IMG:content-2143.png:[blocks in formation] blue.] I. a. 1. Blue; blackish-blue; livid; blame (blām), v. t.; pret. and pp. blamed , ppr. MD. blamen (also also, also bluish-gray; lead-colored: a color-name me blaming . [ME. blamen = applied to various shades of blue. 2. Livid; blameren , D. blameren ), blasmer , blamer , pale-blue: applied to a person's complexion, as affected by cold, terror, or contusion. Oh! sirs, some of you will stand with a blae countenance before the tribunal of God. in ten ance It. biasimare , blasphemare , speak ill of, blame, also blaspheme, βλασφημεῖν , speak ill, whence the full E. form blaspheme , q. v.] 1. To expre disapprobation of; find fault with; censure: opposed to praise or commend . II. n. [Commonly in pl. blaes ; also written blaize , blaze .] In coal - mining , indurated argil- laceous shale or clay, sometimes containing nodules of iron ore. The same term is also applied to beds of hard sandstone. blaeberry (blā'beri), n.; pl. blaeberries (-iz). [Sc.; also spelled bleaberry , blay berry ; blae + berry , after Icel. blāber = Sw. blåbär = Dan. Formerly it might be followed by of . blaabær: see bilberry .] The Scotch name of the bilberry. blae-linen (blā'lin" en), n. A slate-colored linen beetled in the manufacture. Also blay- linen. No le e is to be blam'd their odd pronouncing of Latine, so that out of England none were able to understand or endure it. Evelyn, Diary, May 13, 1661. We blamed him, and with perfect justice and propriety, for saying what he did not mean. Macaulay , Sadler's Ref. Refuted. blæsit as (blē'si-tas), n. [NL., βλαισός , crooked, bandy-legged.] 1. Stuttering or stammering. - 2. An imperfection of speech consisting in the substitution of d for t , b for p , etc. See psel- lismus. [Rare.] blafft, v. i. [Prob. blaffen = MLG. LG. blaffen , bark; cf. ME. wlaffen , and baffen , E. baff1 , bark: all appar. imitative.] To bark. Seals which would rise out of the water, and blaff like a dog. Capt . Cowley , Voy. (1729), p. 6. ( N. E. D. ) blaffert (blaf'ert), n. [ blaphart , pla- phart , plappert = MLG. blaffert = MD. blaf- ferd , blaffaert (ML. blaff ard us ), a silver coin with a blank face, blaffaert , having a blank or plane face, blaf , having a blank or broad face: see bluff 1.] An old silver coin of Cologne, worth about 4 cents. blaflum (blaf'lum), n. [Also bleflum . Cf. be- flum .] Deception; imposition; hoax. [Scotch.] blague (blag), n. [F.] Humbug; vain boast- ing; pretentious falsehood. blague (blag), v . i.; pret. and pp. blagued , ppr. blaguing . [F. blaguer , humbug, hoax; from the noun.] To humbug; boast; lie jestingly. She [a Belgian shopkeeper] laughed, and said I blagued . blain (blān), n. blein , AS. blegen (= D. blein = LG. bleien = Dan. blegn ), perhaps, like bladder , ult. from the root of blaw an , blow, puff: see blow1 .] 1. A pustule; a blotch; a blister. To which she for his sake had weetingly Now brought herselfe, and blam'd her noble blood. Spenser, F. Q., VI. iii. 11. [In such phrases as he is to blame, to blame , by an old and common construction, has the pa ive meaning 'to be blamed, blamable.' Compare a house to let , hire , build ; You were to blame , I must be plain with you. Shak ., M. of V., v. 1. IMG:content-2144.png:[graphic] That we should be holy and without blame before him. Eph. i. 4. 3. Culpability; responsibility for something that is wrong: as, the blame is yours.-4t. Hurt; injury. And [the blow] glauncing downe his shield from blame him fairly blest. Spenser, F. Q., I. ii. 18. blamable , blamablene , blamably . blameful (blam'fül), a. [ -ful .] 1. Meriting blame; reprehensible; faulty; guilty, criminal: as, blameful thinges, Cha cer, Melibeus. Thy mother took into her blameful bed Some stern untutor'd churl. blakt, blaket, a. Middle English forms of black . blake (blāk), a. [E. dial., blake , blak , 2. Faultfinding; blaming: as, a blameful look the northern form corresponding to the reg. blæc , > ME. bleche , mod. E. bleach1 , adj., also southern early ME. bloke , bloc , blac (var. prob. without a ibilation ME. * bleke , mod. E. bleak1 : see bleach1 , a ., and bleak1 ) (= OS. blek = D. bleek = MLG. blek = OHG. bleih , MHG. G. bleich = Icel. bleikr ), shining, white, pale, blican (pret. blāc ), shine, gleam: see blick1 .] 1. Pale; pallid; wan; of a sickly hue, as the com- tation.-2. Yellow, as butter, cheese, etc.-3. Bleak; cold; bare; naked. Hall i well . [North. Eng.] blaket, v. i. [ME. blaken , the northern form corresponding to the reg. southern early ME. bloken , blācian , become pale, blāc , pale: see blake , a.] To become pale. IMG:content-2145.png:[blocks in formation] We will be blamele of this thine oath. Josh. ii. 17. Wearing the white flower of a blamele life. Tennyson, Ded. of Idylls. =Syn. Faultle , irreproachable, unimpeachable, unsul- lied, spotle , stainle , unblemished. blamele ly (blām'les-li), adv . In a blamele manner; without fault or crime; innocently. blamele ne