reeds, canes, or osiers, to hide them from being seen by the enemy; an old military term. BLIND-IS-THE-CAT, 8. An old Christmas game, perhaps blindman's buff. BLIND-ALEHOUSE, 8. Is the fidler at hand that us'd to ply at the blind-alehouse? Etherege, Comical Revenge, 1669. BLIND-BALL, 8. A fungus. BLIND-BUCKY-DAVY, S. Blind man's buff. Somerset and Glouc. BLIND-BUZZARD, 8. A cockchafer. BLIND-DAYS, S. The first three days of March, which were formerly considered as unlucky, and upon which no farmer would sow any seed. Devon. BLIND-EYES, 8. The corn-poppy. Northampt. BLIND-HOB, s. Blind-man's buff. BLIND-HOOKY, s. A game at cards. BLIND-MAN'S-BUFF, S. (1) A wellknown children's game. (2) A kind of puff-ball. BLIND-MAN'S-HOLYDAY, 8. Twi light. BLIND-MARES, 8. Nonsense. Devon. BLIND-NETTLE, S. Wild hemp. Devon. BLIND-SIM, S. Blind-man's buff. East. BLIND-THARM, s. The bowel-gut. Durham. BLIND-WORM, s. The slow-worm. BLINDERS, S. Blinkers. North. BLINDING-BRIDLE, S. A bridle with blinkers. BLINDFELLENE, v. To blindfold. Pr. Parv. BLINDING-BOARD, 8. An instrument to restrain an unruly cow. Florio. BLINDS, 8. A term for a black fluor about the vein in a mine. BLINE, 8. A kind of wood. Skinner. BLINK. (1) 8. A spark of fire, glimmering or intermittent light. West. (2) v. To evade; to avoid the (3) v. To smile. North. (5) Blinking the malt, is putting it to work too hot. Cambridge. BLINKARD, 8. One who sees badly. BLINKED, adj. Stale or sharp, applied to beer. BLINKER, 8. A term of contempt. North. BLINKS, 8. An old hunter's term. Brisées, boughes rent by hunters from trees, and left in the view of a deere, or cast overthwart the way wherein he is likely to passe, thereby to hinder his running, and to recover him the better; our wood-men call them blinkes. Cotgrave. BLINNE, v. (1) (A.-S. blinnan.) To cease. (2) To stop, to delay. BLIRT, v. To cry. North. BLISFUL, adj. Joyful; blessed. BLISH-BLASH, 8. Sloppy dirt. North. BLISSE, v. (1) (4.-S.) To bless. (2) (Fr.) To wound. BLISSENE, gen. pl. Of joys. BLISSEY, S. A blaze. Wilts. BLISSOM, adj. (1) Blithesome. (2) Maris appetens, applied to the ewe. (3) v. To copulate, said of sheep. BLIVE, adj. and adv. Quick; ready. BLO, adj. Blue; livid. BLOA, adj. Cold; raw. Linc. BLOACH, S. A tumour. Skinner. BLOACHER, S. Any large animal. North. TO BLOAT, or BLOTE, v. To dry by smoke, applied especially to her. rings. A Bloat-herring, or, as we now call it, a bloater, a herring so dried. Lay you an old courtier on the coals, like a sausage or a bloat-herring. B. Jon., Masq. of Mer., v. 429. Make a meal of a bloat-herring, water it with four shillings beer, and then swear we have dined as well as my lord mayor. Match at Midn., O. Pl., vii, 343. I have four dozen of fine firebrands in my belly, I have more smoke in my mouth than would blote a hundred herrings. B. and Fl., Isl. Princ., ii. Three pails of sprats, carried from mart to mart, Are as much meat as these, to more use travel'd, A bunch of bloated fools! Id., Q. of Cor., ii, 4. BLOAZE, s. A blaze. North. BLOB, 8. (1) A blunt termination to what is usually pointed. A blob-nose, a nose with a small bump at the end. (2) A small lump of anything thick, viscid, or dirty. (3) A vulgar term for the lower lip. (4) A bubble; a blister. North. (5) Thick. See Blub. (6) A drop. (7) A term applied to the flower of the water ranunculus. BLOBBER-LIP. See Blub. BLOB-MILK, 8. Milk with its cream mingled. Yorksh. BLOB-SCOTCH, 8. A bubble. Yorksh. BLOB-TALE, 8. A tell-tale. BLOCK, 8. (1) The wooden mould on which the crown of a hat was formed. Hence it was used for the form or fashion of a hat. A grave gentleman of Naples, who having bought a hat of the newest fashion and best blocke in all Italie, &c. Euph. Engl. O., 3, b, Is this same hat B. Jons. Staple of News, i, 2. That is, "of the current fashion." (2) The Jack at the game of bowls. BLOCKER, 8. A broadaxe. BLOCKING-AXE, f North. BLOCK-HORSE, s. A strong wooden frame with four handles, to carry blocks. East. BLOCKPATE, S. A blockhead. All these things may well be said unto me, that be commonly spoken against a foole, as to be called a blockpate, a dullhead, an asse, a lumpish sot. Terence in English, 1641. BLOCKSTICK, s. A club. North. BLOCK-WHEAT, S. Buck-wheat. BLODY, adv. By blood; of or in blood. BLOGGY, V. BLOGG, To look angry or sour; to be sullen; to frown. Exmoor. BLOKNE, v. (A.-S.) To fade? That, man, thi body arise schel William de Shoreham. BLOMAN, 8. A trumpeter. BLOMANGER. (A.-N.) 8. A dish in cookery. For to make blomanger. Nym rys, and lese hem, and wasch hem clene, and de thereto god almande mylk, and seth hem til they al tobrest; and than lat hem kele and nym the lire of the hennyn, or of capons, and grynd hem smal. Kest thereto wite grece, and boyle it. Nym blanchyd almandys, and safron, and set hem above in the dysche, and serve yt forthe. Warner, Antiq. Culin., p. 39. For to make blomanger of fysch. Tak a pound of rys, les hem wel and wasch, and seth tyl they breste; and let hem kele; and do thereto mylk of to pound of almandys; nym the perche, or the lopuster, and boyle yt, and kest sugur and salt also thereto, and serve yt forth. Warner, Antiq. Culin., p. 46. BLOME. (1) v. To flourish. (2) 8. A blossom. BLOME-DOWN. adj. Clumsy; clownish. Dorset. BLOMMER, 8. Noise; uproar. BLONC, adj. (A.-N.) White. BLONCKET, adj. (probably from Fr. blanc.) Gray. Spenser. BLONDREN, v. To blunder; to bluster. BLONK. (1) adj. Sullen. (2) v. To disappoint. North. BI ONKE, 8. (4.-S.) A steed; a warhorse. BLONT, adj. Dull; heavy. BLOOD, 8. Disposition. Shakesp. BLOODING, S. A black pudding. Apexabo, intestinum sanguine fartum, admista arvina. A blouding or blacke puddinge. Nomenclator, 1585, BLOOD-OLPH, 8. A bullfinch. East. BLOOD-SUCKER, S. A leech. BLOODSUPPER, s. A blood-sucker; a murderer. BLOOD-WALL, s. The dark double wall-flower. Northamp BLOODWORT, 8. (A.-S.) The name of a plant. BLOODY-BONE, s. The name of an hobgoblin or fiend. BLOODY THURSDAY, 8. The Thurs day of the first week in Lent. BLOODY-WARRIOR, 8. The dark double wall-flower. West. BLOOM. (1) 8. A mass of iron which has gone a second time through the furnace. (2) v. To shine; to throw out heat. (3) s. Heat. Bloomy, very hot. What a bloom am I in all over? give me my fan; I protest I am in a general damp. N. Tate, Cuckold's Haven, 1685. (4) s. The hot stage of a fever. BLOOTH, S. Blossom. Devon. BLORE, (1) v. To bellow like a bull. East. The blore is the moan of a cow, unsettled for want of her calf, or by being in a strange pasture. Lincolnshire. (2) 8. A blast; the act of blowing. (3) v. To weep. Prompt. P. (2) 8. A blossom. BLOSMY, adj. Full of blossoms. cream in the operation of churn- BLOT, 8. A term at backgammon, when one in danger of being taken up is called a blot. BLOTCH-PAPER, S. Blotting paper. BLOTE, adj. Dried. See Bloat. BLOTEN, adj. Excessively fond. North. BLOTHER, V. To chatter idly; to make a great noise to little purpose. Var. dial. BLOTS, S. The eggs of moths. BLOUNCHET, adj. Blanched. (2) A woman with hair or head- (3) A girl or wench whose face looks red by running abroad in the wind and weather. Kennett. Such a woman is said to have a 66 blouzing colour." To be in a blouse, to look red from heat. BLOUSY, adj. Wild, disordered, confused. BLOUTE, adj. (A.-S.) Bloody. (2) s. A blossom; more part.cu- (4) v. To inform of; to peach (5) v. To make a person blush or be ashamed; to be blown, to blush on a sudden surprise. All blown and red. Shakesp., Rape of Lucrece. BLOW-BALL, 8. (perhaps from A.-N. blaverole.) The corn-flower. BLOWBOLL, 8. A drunkard. BLOWE, v. (4.-S.) To blow; to breathe. BLOWER, 8. (1) A fissure in the broken strata of coal, from which a feeder or current of inflammable air discharges. North. (2) A child's name for the downy heads of dandelion. (3) "One man's particular lass." Dunton's Ladies' Dictionary, 1694. BLOW-FLY, 8. The large blue fly which blows meat. BLOWING, S. (1) A blossom. Wilts. (2) The egg of a bee? Harrison's Descr. of Engl., p. 229. BLOW-MAUNGER, S. A full fat-faced person, with cheeks puffed out. Exmoor. BLOW-MILK, S. North. Skimmed milk. BLOWN, adj. (1) Swelled; inflated. (2) Proud, insolent. (3) Stale, worthless. (4) To say a cow or beast is blown, when in pain from the fermentation of green food having caused a distention of its carcase, is common, perhaps, to many counties. When a man or horse is panting for breath from over-exertion, he is also said to be blown. Moor's Suffolk MS. BLOWN-HERRING. "In some parts of England they are called bloated herrings; and the term occurs in several of our writers about Elizabeth's day, but not, I believe, in Shakespeare. The word bloated is a confirmation of the above conjecture as to the origin of blown, being merely another form } of the word, but not so applicable. We sometimes see and hear blown, bloated, and puffed up, in nearly the same sense. I have heard our blown-herrings called bawen herrings, and bone-herrings, but never any good reason for so calling them. Hoven is another sense of blown or puffed up, but never applied to a herring. Since the above was written, I have seen (October, 1823) in a shop in Great Russell Street, a parcel of blown-herrings ticketed 'fine Yarmouth bloaters.' 1824, in the autumn of this year, hearing the blown or bown herrings cried in Woodbridge by the name of Tow Bowen herrings, I learned on enquiry that it is a common name for them." Moor's Suffolk MS. BLOW-POINT, 8. A child's game, mentioned in old writers. BLOWRE, S. A pustule. BLOWRY, adj. Disordered. Warw. BLOWSE, S. See Blouse. Wild bores, bulls, and falcons bredde Leland, Itin., vol. vii, p. 42. BLOWT, v. To make a loud querulous noise. North. BLOWTH, 8. A blossom. BLOWTY, adj. Applied to a person who increases in size by a false appearance of fat. Norf. BLU, adj. Blew. BLUB, (1) v. To swell. (2) adj. Swollen, plump, round. Odd! She has a delicate lip, such a lip, so red, so hard, so plump, so blub. Otway, Soldier's Fortune, 1681. You have a pretty pouting about the mouth like me, and fine little blub lips. Shadwell, True Widow, 1679. Bucco, bucculentus, Plauto, cui tumi. diores sunt buccæ, aut os grandius. yválwv. Joufflu, ou geullard, qui a la bouche grande. That hath big cheeks, or a great and large mouth: blub cheeked: sparrow mouthed. Nomenclator, 1585. BLUBBER, (1) 8. A bubble. Var. dial. (2) To bubble, as water. The (4) s. The name given by sailors to the sea nettle. BLUBBER-GRASS, s. Different species of bromus, so-called from their soft inflated glumes. East. BLUCK, v. "So the true men shall be hunted and blucked." Festyvall, fol. xxvi, ro. BLUE, (1) 8. Bloom. Devon. (2) s. Ale. Somerset. (3) v. To "look blue," to look disconcerted; to be mortified or disappointed. BLUE-BOTTLE, s. (1) A term for a servant or beadle, from the colour formerly used for their dresses. (2) A large blue fly. BLUE-BOTTLES, s. The blue flowers which grow among wheat. Oxfd. BLUE-CAPS,8. (1) Meadow scabious. Yorksh. (2) The corn blue bottles. Northampt. BLUE-INKLE, 8. Some substance which burnt with a strong offensive smell. Ah me! help, help my lady! cut her lace, cut her lace! get some arsa fœtida, blew inkle, or partridge feathers, and burn under her nose. Shadwell, Amorous Bigotte, 1690. Gad take me! hold the gentlewoman, bring some cold water, and flower, burn some blew inkle and partridge feathers, 'tis my ladies medicine. Shadwell, The Scourers, 1691. BLUE-ISAAC,8. The hedge-sparrow. BLUE-ROCK, 8. The wild pi Northampt. BLUE-STOCKING, 8. A woman addicts herself to study or au ship. BLUE-TAIL, 8. The fieldfare. N ampt. BLUE-VINNIED, adj. Covered blue mould. South. BLUFF, (1) adj. Churlish; South. (2) adj. Big and puffed up (3) v. To blindfold. North BLUFFER, S. A landlord BLUFFIN, v. To bluster; to sw Staff. BLUFTED, adj. Hoodwinked. BLUFTER, 8. A horse's b Linc., Leic. Blufted, blinkers on. (3) v. To blunder water, BLUNDERBUSS, s. A stupid North. BLUNGE, v. To break or whilst in a state of mace a potter's term. A lo wooden instrument, called ger, is used for this purpo BLUNK, (1) adj. Squally; t tuous. East. (2) v. To snow, to emit s (3) s. Any light flaky bod s. A fit of stormy wea BLUNKET, (1) s. A white probably woollen. (2) s. A light blue colour BLUNT, (1) 8. The slang t money. (2) s. A pointless rapier |