Part 1176

<blockquote>Those who from our labors heap their board, <b>Blaspheme</b> their feeder and forget their lord. <i>Pope.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Blaspheme</h1> <Xpage=153>

<hw>Blas*pheme"</hw>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <def>To utter blasphemy.</def>

<blockquote>He that shall <b>blaspheme</b> against the Holy Ghost hath never forgiveness. <i>Mark iii. 29.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Blasphemer</h1> <Xpage=153>

<hw>Blas*phem"er</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>One who blasphemes.</def>

<blockquote>And each <b>blasphemer</b> quite escape the rod, Because the insult's not on man, but God ? <i> Pope.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Blasphemous</h1> <Xpage=153>

<hw>Blas"phe*mous</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>blasphemus</ets>, Gr. <ets><?/</ets>.]</ety> <def>Speaking or writing blasphemy; uttering or exhibiting anything impiously irreverent; profane; <as>as, a <ex>blasphemous</ex> person; containing blasphemy; <as>as, a <ex>blasphemous</ex> book</as>; a <ex>blasphemous</ex> caricature.</as></def> "<i>Blasphemous</i> publications."

<i>Porteus.</i>

<blockquote>Nor from the Holy One of Heaven Refrained his tongue <b>blasphemous</b>. <i>Milton.</i></blockquote>

<note>&hand; Formerly this word was accented on the second syllable, as in the above example.</note>

<h1>Blasphemously</h1> <Xpage=153>

<hw>Blas"phe*mous*ly</hw>, <tt>adv.</tt> <def>In a blasphemous manner.</def>

<h1>Blasphemy</h1> <Xpage=153>

<hw>Blas"phe*my</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>blasphemia</ets>, Gr. <ets><?/</ets>: cf. OF. <ets>blasphemie</ets>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>An indignity offered to God in words, writing, or signs; impiously irreverent words or signs addressed to, or used in reference to, God; speaking evil of God; also, the act of claiming the attributes or prerogatives of deity.</def>

<note>&hand; When used generally in statutes or at common law, <i>blasphemy</i> is the use of irreverent words or signs in reference to the Supreme Being in such a way as to produce scandal or provoke violence.</note>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Figuratively, of things held in high honor: Calumny; abuse; vilification.</def>

<blockquote>Punished for his <b>blasphemy</b> against learning. <i> Bacon.</i></blockquote>

<h1>-blast</h1> <Xpage=153>

<hw>-blast</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>. <ety>[Gr. <ets><?/</ets> sprout, shoot.]</ety> <def>A suffix or terminal formative, used principally in biological terms, and signifying <i>growth</i>, <i>formation</i>; <as>as, bio<ex>blast</ex>, epi<ex>blast</ex>, meso<ex>blast</ex>, etc.</as></def>

<h1>Blast</h1> <Xpage=153>

<hw>Blast</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[AS. <ets>bl<?/st</ets> a puff of wind, a blowing; akin to Icel. <ets>bl\'bestr</ets>, OHG. <ets>bl\'best</ets>, and fr. a verb akin to Icel. <ets>bl\'besa</ets> to blow, OHG. <ets>bl\'83san</ets>, Goth. <ets>bl<?/san</ets> (in comp.); all prob. from the same root as E. <ets>blow</ets>. See <er>Blow</er> to eject air.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>A violent gust of wind.</def>

<blockquote>And see where surly Winter passes off, Far to the north, and calls his ruffian <b>blasts</b>; His <b>blasts</b> obey, and quit the howling hill. <i>Thomson.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>A forcible stream of air from an orifice, as from a bellows, the mouth, etc. Hence: The continuous blowing to which one charge of ore or metal is subjected in a furnace; <as>as, to melt so many tons of iron at a <ex>blast</ex></as>.</def>

<note>&hand; The terms <i>hot blast</i> and <i>cold blast</i> are employed to designate whether the current is heated or not heated before entering the furnace. A blast furnace is said to be <i>in blast</i> while it is in operation, and <i>out of blast</i> when not in use.</note>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>The exhaust steam from and engine, driving a column of air out of a boiler chimney, and thus creating an intense draught through the fire; also, any draught produced by the blast.</def>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>The sound made by blowing a wind instrument; strictly, the sound produces at one breath.</def>