blearnesst (blernes)

[ Eglamour , 1. 933. IMG:content-2171.png:[blocks in formation] OHG. bluotan, MHG. G. bluten, = Icel. blædha = Sw. blöda = Dan. blöde ), wound bled profusely; his nose bleeds. Many upon the seeing of others bleed... themselves are ready to faint, as if they bled. Bacon, 2. Figuratively, to feel pity, sorrow, or anguish; be filled with sympathy or grief: with for: as, my heart bleeds for him. Take your own will; my very heart bleeds for thee. Fletcher (and another ), Queen of Corinth, ii. 3. I bleed inwardly for my lord. Shak ., T. of A., i. 2. 3t. To come to light: in allusion to the old superstitious belief that the body of a murdered IMG:content-2172.png:[blocks in formation] fection of; deface; sully. Vanish; or I shall give thee thy deserving, person would begin to bleed if the murderer lent); mar or make defective; destroy the per- 3. One who blenches or flinches. approached it. The murdering of her Marquis of Ancre will yet bleed , as some fear. Howell, Letters, I. i. 19. 4. To shed one's blood; be severely wounded or die, as in battle or the like. Cæsar must bleed for it. Shak., J. C., ii. 1. farm . And blemish Cæsar's triumph. Shak ., A. and C., iv. 10. blench-holding (blench'holding), n. Same as 2. To impair morally; tarnish, as reputation or character; defame; stain: as, to blemish one's fair fame. tings, it is impo ible to deny that, against the great crimes services. by which it is blemished , we have to set off great public Macaulay , Warren Hastings. blemish (blem'ish), n. [ As he hath caused a blemish in a man, so shall it be done Lev. xxiv. 20. Naught had blemish there or spot, For in that place decay was not. William Morris , Earthly Paradise, I. 358. 2. A moral defect or injury; reproach; dis- grace; that which impairs reputation; imputa- tion. That cleare she dide from blemish crim in all. Spenser, F. Q., II. i. 37. That you have been earnest should be no blemish or discredit at all unto you. Hooker . blemished (blem'isht), p . a . Having a fault or blemish; specifically, in her ., broken or cut short: said of a cro , weapon, or the like, used as a bearing. blemish le (blem'ish-les), a. [ -le .] Without blemish; spotle ; perfect; without defect. A life in all so blemish le . Feltham, Lusoria, xxxvii. blemishment (blem'ish-ment), n. [ 4. In dyeing, to extract the coloring matter n., + -ment.] Damage; flaw; impairment. from (a dye-drug). Napier .-5. In book bind- ing , to trim the margin of (a book) so closely as to mutilate the print. To bleed a buoy (naut.), to let out of a buoy water which has leaked into it. To bleed the brakes, in locomotive, to the bleeder (blē'dėr), n. 1. One who lets blood. -2. A person who is naturally predisposed to bleed. See hemophilia . bleed-hearts (bled härts), n. The scarlet lych- nis, Lychnis Chalcedonic a . bleeding (blē'ding), n. [Verbal n. of bleed , v.] 1. A running or i uing of blood, as from the nose; a hemorrhage; the operation of letting blood, as in surgery.-2. The drawing of sap from a tree or plant.-3. In bookbinding , an exce ive trimming down of the margins of a book, which cuts into and mutilates the print. bleeding-heart (blē'ding-härt), n. 1. In Eng- land, a name of the wall-flower, Che iran thus Cheiri.-2. A common name of some species of Dicentra, especially D. spectabilis from China, from the shape of the flowers.-3. A name sometimes applied to cultivated forms of Colocasia with colored leaves. bleeding-tooth (blē'ding-töth), n. A common name of a shell of the family Neritida , Nerita peloronta , the toothed columella of which has a red blotch suggesting the name. See Nerita . bleekbok (blēk'bok), n. [D., bleek , = E. bleak1 , pale, + bok = E. buck1 , a goat.] The Dutch colonial name of the ourebi, Scopophorus ourebi , a small pale-colored antelope of South Africa, related to the steinboks. Another form is bleckbok . bleery (blēr'i), n. Also spelled bleary . Scowder their harigals de'ils wi' a bleary . blemmatrope (blem'a-trop), n. [ βλέπειν , look), + τρέπειν, turn.] An apparatus for illustrating the va- rio us positions of the eye. blench1 (blench), v. [In early mod. E. some- times spelled blanch by confusion with blanch , make white (see blanch1 and blanch2 ); blenken , occasionally blinchen , turn aside, evade, disconcert, usually in trans., shrink back, give way, blencan (= Icel. blekkja ), deceive, supposed to be a causal form of blincan , blink (cf. drench , causal of drink ), but the latter verb does not occur in the older language: see blink . For the sense 'deceive, cf. blear one's eyes , deceive, under blear1 .] I. in trans. 1. To shrink; start back; give way; flinch; turn aside or fly off. Though sometimes you do blench from this to that. Shak ., M. for M., iv. 5. I'll tent him to the quick; if he but blench , I know my course. Shak ., Hamlet, ii. I know his people Are of his own choice, men that will not totter Nor blench much at a bullet. II.t trans. 1. To deceive; cheat.-2. To draw back from; shirk; avoid; elude; deny from fear. He now blenched what before... he affirmed. Evelyn . 3. To hinder or obstruct; disconcert; foil. The rebels besieged them, winning the even ground on the top, by carrying up great tru es of hay before them to blench the defendants' sight and dead their shot. And Rupert's oath, and Cromwell's prayer, With battle thunder blended , Whittier, The Exiles. Changed seemed all the fashion of the world, And past and future into one did blend . The distant peaks gradually blended with the white at- Tyndall, Glaciers, p. 196. bleezel (blēz), n. and v. A Scotch form of blaze1 . bleeze2, v. i.; pret. and pp. bleezed , ppr. bleez- ing . To become slightly sour, as milk. [Scotch.] bleik1t, a. See bleak1 . bleik2t, n. See bleak2 . bleint, n. A Middle English form of blain . bleis, n. pl. See blae , n. blench2 (blench), a. or adv . [A variant form of blanch1 , a .: see blanch1 and blank .] Upon or based upon the payment of a nominal or trifling yearly duty: applied to a sort of tenure of land: as, the estate is held blench of the crown. See blanch - holding . blench2 (blench), v . [Var. of blanch1 , partly phonetic and partly by notional confusion with blench1.] I. in trans. To become pale; blanch. II. trans . To make white; blanch. blencher (blen'cher), n. [ Sir T. Elyot . -2t. In hunting , one placed where he can turn the deer from going in a particular direction; a blancher. I feel the old man's master'd by much pa ion, And too high-rack'd, which makes him overshoot all His valour should direct at, and hurt those That stand but by as blenchers. IMG:content-2173.png:[blocks in formation] of Marl borough in recognition of his military services, and especially of his great victory at Blenheim, G. Blindheim, in Bavaria, Aug. 13, 1704.] One of a breed of dogs of the spaniel kind, preserved in perfection at Blenheim House, near Oxford, England, since the beginning of the eighteenth century. Blenheim orange, wig. See the nouns. blenkt, v. i. [A var. of blink, q. v.; partly confused with blench1.] 1. To shine; gleam; glitter.-2. To glance; give a look. IMG:content-2174.png:[blocks in formation] few or no anal spines.