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7. A sharp-witted, dashing, wild, or reckless, fellow; -- a word of somewhat indefinite meaning.

He saw a turnkey in a trice Fetter a troublesome blade. Coleridge.

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Blade (bld), v. t. To furnish with a blade.

Blade, v. i. To put forth or have a blade.

As sweet a plant, as fair a flower, is faded As ever in the Muses' garden bladed. P. Fletcher.

Blade"bone` (-bn`), n. The scapula. See Blade, 4.

Blad"ed (bld"d), a. 1. Having a blade or blades; as, a two-bladed knife.

Decking with liquid pearl the bladed grass. Shak.

2. Divested of blades; as, bladed corn.

3. (Min.) Composed of long and narrow plates, shaped like the blade of a knife.

Blade"fish` (&?;), n. (Zoöl.) A long, thin, marine fish of Europe (Trichiurus lepturus); the ribbon fish.

Blade"smith` (&?;), n. A sword cutler. [Obs.]

Blad"y (&?;), a. Consisting of blades. [R.] "Blady grass." Drayton.

Blæ (&?;), a. [See Blue.] Dark blue or bluish gray; lead-colored. [Scot.]

Blæ"ber*ry (&?;), n. [Blæ + berry; akin to Icel blber, Sw. bl&?;bär, D. blaabær. Cf. Blueberry.] The bilberry. [North of Eng. & Scot.]

||Blague (blg), n. [F.] Mendacious boasting; falsehood; humbug.

Blain (bln), n. [OE. blein, bleyn, AS. blgen; akin to Dan. blegn, D. blein; perh. fr. the same root as E. bladder. See Bladder.] 1. An inflammatory swelling or sore; a bulla, pustule, or blister.

Blotches and blains must all his flesh emboss. Milton.

2. (Far.) A bladder growing on the root of the tongue of a horse, against the windpipe, and stopping the breath.

Blam"a*ble (blm"*b'l), a. [Cf. F. blâmable.] Deserving of censure; faulty; culpable; reprehensible; censurable; blameworthy. -- Blam"a*ble*ness, n. -- Blam"a*bly (&?;), adv.

Blame (blm), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Blamed (blmd); p. pr. & vb. n. Blaming.] [OE. blamen, F. blâmer, OF. blasmer, fr. L. blasphemare to blaspheme, LL. also to blame, fr. Gr. blasfhmei^n to speak ill, to slander, to blaspheme, fr. bla`sfhmos evil speaking, perh, for blapsi`fhmos; bla`psis injury (fr. bla`ptein to injure) + fh`mh a saying, fr. fa`nai to say. Cf. Blaspheme, and see Fame.]

1. To censure; to express disapprobation of; to find fault with; to reproach.

We have none to blame but ourselves. Tillotson.

2. To bring reproach upon; to blemish. [Obs.]

She . . . blamed her noble blood. Spenser.

To blame, to be blamed, or deserving blame; in fault; as, the conductor was to blame for the accident.

You were to blame, I must be plain with you. Shak.