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<p><b>3.</b> <def>To sully; to stain; to blemish, as reputation.</def>

<blockquote>Sarcasms may eclipse thine own, But can not <b>blur</b> my lost renown. <i>Hudibras.</i></blockquote>

<syn>Syn. -- To spot; blot; disfigure; stain; sully.</syn>

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<hw>Blur</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>That which obscures without effacing; a stain; a blot, as upon paper or other substance.</def>

<blockquote>As for those who cleanse <b>blurs</b> with blotted fingers, they make it worse. <i>Fuller.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>A dim, confused appearance; indistinctness of vision; <as>as, to see things with a <ex>blur</ex>; it was all <ex>blur</ex>.</as></def>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>A moral stain or blot.</def>

<blockquote>Lest she . . . will with her railing set a great <b>blur</b> on mine honesty and good name. <i>Udall.</i></blockquote>

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<hw>Blur"ry</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Full of blurs; blurred.</def>

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<hw>Blurt</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Blurted</er>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Blurting</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[Cf. <er>Blare</er>.]</ety> <def>To utter suddenly and unadvisedly; to divulge inconsiderately; to ejaculate; -- commonly with <i>out</i>.</def>

<blockquote>Others . . . can not hold, but <b>blurt</b> out, those words which afterward they forced to eat. <i>Hakewill.</i></blockquote>

<cs><col>To blurt at</col>, <cd>to speak contemptuously of. <mark>[Obs.]</mark></cd></cs>

<i>Shak.</i>

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<hw>Blush</hw> <tt>(?)</tt> <tt>v. i.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Blushed</er> <tt>(#)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Blushing</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[OE. <ets>bluschen</ets> to shine, look, turn red, AS. <ets>blyscan</ets> to glow; akin to <ets>blysa</ets> a torch, <ets>\'bebl<?/sian</ets> to blush, D. <ets>blozen</ets>, Dan. <ets>blusse</ets> to blaze, blush.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>To become suffused with red in the cheeks, as from a sense of shame, modesty, or confusion; to become red from such cause, as the cheeks or face.</def>

<blockquote>To the nuptial bower I led her <b>blushing</b> like the morn. <i>Milton.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>In the presence of the shameless and unblushing, the young offender is ashamed to <b>blush</b>. <i>Buckminster.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>He would stroke The head of modest and ingenuous worth, That <b>blushed</b> at its own praise. <i>Cowper.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To grow red; to have a red or rosy color.</def>

<blockquote>The sun of heaven, methought, was loth to set, But stayed, and made the western welkin <b>blush</b>. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>To have a warm and delicate color, as some roses and other flowers.</def>

<blockquote>Full many a flower is born to <b>blush</b> unseen. <i>T. Gray.</i></blockquote>