Part 1193

<p><b>3.</b> <def>A means of happiness; that which promotes prosperity and welfare; a beneficent gift.</def>

<blockquote>Nature's full <b>blessings</b> would be well dispensed. <i>Milton.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>4.</b> <fld>(Bib.)</fld> <def>A gift.</def> <mark>[A Hebraism]</mark>

<i>Gen. xxxiii. 11.</i>

<p><b>5.</b> <def>Grateful praise or worship.</def>

<h1>Blest</h1> <Xpage=155>

<hw>Blest</hw>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Blessed.</def> "This patriarch <i>blest</i>."

<i>Milton.</i>

<blockquote>White these <b>blest</b> sounds my ravished ear assail. <i>Trumbull.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Blet</h1> <Xpage=155>

<hw>Blet</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[F. <ets>blet</ets>, <ets>blette</ets>, a., soft from over ripeness.]</ety> <def>A form of decay in fruit which is overripe.</def>

<h1>Bletonism</h1> <Xpage=155>

<hw>Ble"ton*ism</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>The supposed faculty of perceiving subterraneous springs and currents by sensation; -- so called from one <i>Bleton</i>, of France.</def>

<h1>Bletting</h1> <Xpage=155>

<hw>Blet"ting</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>A form of decay seen in fleshy, overripe fruit.</def>

<i>Lindley.</i>

<h1>Blew</h1> <Xpage=155>

<hw>Blew</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>imp.</tt> <def>of <er>Blow</er>.</def>

<h1>Bleyme</h1> <Xpage=155>

<hw>Bleyme</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[F. <ets>bleime</ets>.]</ety> <fld>(Far.)</fld> <def>An inflammation in the foot of a horse, between the sole and the bone.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<h1>Bleynte</h1> <Xpage=155>

<hw>Bleyn"te</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>imp.</tt> <def>of <er>Blench</er>.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Chaucer.</i>

<h1>Blickey</h1> <Xpage=155>

<hw>Blick"ey</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[D. <ets>blik</ets> tin.]</ety> <def>A tin dinner pail.</def> <mark>[Local, U. S.]</mark>

<i>Bartlett.</i>

<h1>Blight</h1> <Xpage=155>

<hw>Blight</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Blighted</er>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Blighting</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[Perh. contr. from AS. <ets>bl\'c6cettan</ets> to glitter, fr. the same root as E. bleak. The meaning "to blight" comes in that case from to glitter, hence, to be white or pale, grow pale, make pale, bleach. Cf. Bleach, Bleak.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To affect with blight; to blast; to prevent the growth and fertility of.</def>