Part 1166

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Bad port wine; any commo wine of the Mediterranean; -- so called by sailors.</def>

<h1>Blacktail</h1> <Xpage=151>

<hw>Black"tail`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[<ets>Black</ets> + <ets>tail</ets>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <def>A fish; the ruff or pope.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <def>The black-tailed deer <spn>(Cervus or Cariacus Columbianus)</spn> of California and Oregon; also, the mule deer of the Rocky Mountains. See <er>Mule deer</er>.</def>

<h1>Blackthorn</h1> <Xpage=151>

<hw>Black"thorn`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <fld>(Bot.)</fld> <sd>(a)</sd> <def>A spreading thorny shrub or small tree (<spn>Prunus spinosa</spn>), with blackish bark, and bearing little black plums, which are called sloes; the sloe.</def> <sd>(b)</sd> <def>A species of <spn>Crat\'91gus</spn> or hawthorn <spn>(C. tomentosa)</spn>. Both are used for hedges.</def>

<h1>Black vomit</h1> <Xpage=151>

<hw>Black" vom"it</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>. <fld>(Med.)</fld> <def>A copious vomiting of dark-colored matter; or the substance so discharged; -- one of the most fatal symptoms in yellow fever.</def>

<h1>Black wash &or; Blackwash</h1> <Xpage=151>

<hw><hw>Black" wash`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt> &or; <hw>Black"wash</hw><hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <fld>(Med.)</fld> <def>A lotion made by mixing calomel and lime water.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>A wash that blackens, as opposed to <i>whitewash</i>; hence, figuratively, calumny.</def>

<blockquote>To remove as far as he can the modern layers of <b>black wash</b>, and let the man himself, fair or foul, be seen. <i>C. Kingsley.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Blackwood</h1> <Xpage=151>

<hw>Black"wood</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>A name given to several dark-colored timbers. The East Indian black wood is from the tree <spn>Dalbergia latifolia</spn>.</def>

<i>Balfour.</i>

<h1>Blackwork</h1> <Xpage=151>

<hw>Black"work`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>Work wrought by blacksmiths; -- so called in distinction from that wrought by whitesmiths.</def>

<i>Knight.</i>

<h1>Bladder</h1> <Xpage=151>

<hw>Blad"der</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[OE. <ets>bladder</ets>, <ets>bleddre</ets>, AS. <ets>bl<?/dre</ets>, <ets>bl<?/ddre</ets>; akin to Icel. <ets>bla<?/ra</ets>, SW. <ets>bl\'84ddra</ets>, Dan. <ets>bl\'91re</ets>, D. <ets>blaar</ets>, OHG. <ets>bl\'betara</ets> the bladder in the body of animals, G. <ets>blatter</ets> blister, bustule; all fr. the same root as AS. <ets>bl\'bewan</ets>, E. <ets>blow</ets>, to puff. See <er>Blow</er> to puff.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <fld>(Anat.)</fld> <def>A bag or sac in animals, which serves as the receptacle of some fluid; <as>as, the urinary <ex>bladder</ex>; the gall <ex>bladder</ex></as>; -- applied especially to the urinary bladder, either within the animal, or when taken out and inflated with air.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Any vesicle or blister, especially if filled with air, or a thin, watery fluid.</def>

<p><b>3.</b> <fld>(Bot.)</fld> <def>A distended, membranaceous pericarp.</def>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>Anything inflated, empty, or unsound.</def> "To swim with <i>bladders</i> of philosophy."

<i>Rochester.</i>

<cs><mcol><col>Bladder nut</col>, &or; <col>Bladder tree</col></mcol> <fld>(Bot.)</fld>, <cd>a genus of plants (<spn>Staphylea</spn>) with bladderlike seed pods.</cd> -- <col>Bladder pod</col> <fld>(Bot.)</fld>, <cd>a genus of low herbs (<spn>Vesicaria</spn>) with inflated seed pods.</cd> -- <col>Bladdor senna</col> <fld>(Bot.)</fld>, <cd>a genus of shrubs (<spn>Colutea</spn>), with membranaceous, inflated pods.</cd> -- <col>Bladder worm</col> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld>, <cd>the larva of any species of tapeworm (<spn>T\'91nia</spn>), found in the flesh or other parts of animals. See <er>Measle</er>, <er>Cysticercus</er>.</cd> -- <col>Bladder wrack</col> <fld>(Bot.)</fld>, <cd>the common black rock weed of the seacoast (<spn>Fucus nodosus</spn> and <spn>F. vesiculosus</spn>) -- called also <altname>bladder tangle</altname>. See <er>Wrack</er>.</cd></cs>

<h1>Bladder</h1> <Xpage=151>

<hw>Blad"der</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Bladdered</er> <tt>(#)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Bladdering</er>.]</wordforms> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To swell out like a bladder with air; to inflate.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>