Part 1194

<blockquote>[This vapor] blasts vegetables, <b>blights</b> corn and fruit, and is sometimes injurious even to man. <i>Woodward.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Hence: To destroy the happiness of; to ruin; to mar essentially; to frustrate; <as>as, to <ex>blight</ex> one's prospects</as>.</def>

<blockquote>Seared in heart and lone and <b>blighted</b>. <i>Byron.</i></blockquote>

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

<hw>Blight</hw>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <def>To be affected by blight; to blast; <as>as, this vine never blights</as>.</def>

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

<hw>Blight</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Mildew; decay; anything nipping or blasting; -- applied as a general name to various injuries or diseases of plants, causing the whole or a part to wither, whether occasioned by insects, fungi, or atmospheric influences.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>The act of blighting, or the state of being blighted; a withering or mildewing, or a stoppage of growth in the whole or a part of a plant, etc.</def>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>That which frustrates one's plans or withers one's hopes; that which impairs or destroys.</def>

<blockquote>A <b>blight</b> seemed to have fallen over our fortunes. <i>Disraeli.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>4.</b> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <def>A downy species of aphis, or plant louse, destructive to fruit trees, infesting both the roots and branches; -- also applied to several other injurious insects.</def>

<p><b>5.</b> <pluf>pl.</pluf> <def>A rashlike eruption on the human skin.</def> <mark>[U. S.]</mark>

<h1>Blighting</h1> <Xpage=155>

<hw>Blight"ing</hw>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Causing blight.</def>

<h1>Blightingly</h1> <Xpage=155>

<hw>Blight"ing*ly</hw>, <tt>adv.</tt> <def>So as to cause blight.</def>

<h1>Blimbi, Blimbing</h1> <Xpage=155>

<hw><hw>Blim"bi</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <hw>Blim"bing</hw><hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>See <er>Bilimbi</er>, etc.</def>

<h1>Blin</h1> <Xpage=155>

<hw>Blin</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t. & i.</tt> <ety>[OE. <ets>blinnen</ets>, AS. <ets>blinnan</ets>; pref. <ets>be-</ets> + <ets>linnan</ets> to cease.]</ety> <def>To stop; to cease; to desist.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Spenser.</i>

<h1>Blin</h1> <Xpage=155>

<hw>Blin</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[AS. <ets>blinn</ets>.]</ety> <def>Cessation; end.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<h1>Blind</h1> <Xpage=155>

<hw>Blind</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[AS.; akin to D., G., OS., Sw., & Dan. <ets>blind</ets>, Icel. <ets>blindr</ets>, Goth. <ets>blinds</ets>; of uncertain origin.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Destitute of the sense of seeing, either by natural defect or by deprivation; without sight.</def>

<blockquote>He that is strucken <b>blind</b> can not forget The precious treasure of his eyesight lost. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Not having the faculty of discernment; destitute of intellectual light; unable or unwilling to understand or judge; <as>as, authors are <ex>blind</ex> to their own defects</as>.</def>

<blockquote>But hard be hardened, <b>blind</b> be blinded more, That they may stumble on, and deeper fall. <i>Milton.</i></blockquote>