{ Blen"ni*oid (&?;), Blen"ni*id (&?;), } a. [Blenny + -oid] (Zoöl.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling, the blennies.
Blen*nog"e*nous (&?;), a. [Gr. &?; mucus + -genous.] Generating mucus.
||Blen`nor*rhe"a (&?;), n. [Gr. &?; mucus + &?; to flow.] (Med.) (a) An inordinate secretion and discharge of mucus. (b) Gonorrhea. Dunglison.
Blen"ny (&?;), n.; pl. Blennies (&?;). [L. blennius, blendius, blendea, Gr. &?;, fr. &?; slime, mucus.] (Zoöl.) A marine fish of the genus Blennius or family Blenniidæ; -- so called from its coating of mucus. The species are numerous.
Blent (&?;), imp. & p. p. of Blend to mingle. Mingled; mixed; blended; also, polluted; stained.
Rider and horse, friend, foe, in one red burial blent.
Byron.
Blent, imp. & p. p. of Blend to blind. Blinded. Also (Chaucer), 3d sing. pres. Blindeth. [Obs.]
||Bles"bok (&?;), n. [D., fr. bles a white spot on the forehead + bok buck.] (Zoöl.) A South African antelope (Alcelaphus albifrons), having a large white spot on the forehead.
Bless (&?;), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Blessed (&?;) or Blest; p. pr. & vb. n. Blessing.] [OE. blessien, bletsen, AS. bletsian, bledsian, bloedsian, fr. bl&?;d blood; prob. originally to consecrate by sprinkling with blood. See Blood.] 1. To make or pronounce holy; to consecrate
And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it.
Gen. ii. 3.
2. To make happy, blithesome, or joyous; to confer prosperity or happiness upon; to grant divine favor to.
The quality of mercy is . . . twice blest;
It blesseth him that gives and him that takes.
Shak.
It hath pleased thee to bless the house of thy servant, that it may continue forever before thee.
1 Chron. xvii. 27 (R. V. )
3. To express a wish or prayer for the happiness of; to invoke a blessing upon; -- applied to persons.
Bless them which persecute you.
Rom. xii. 14.
4. To invoke or confer beneficial attributes or qualities upon; to invoke or confer a blessing on, -- as on food.
Then he took the five loaves and the two fishes, and looking up to heaven, he blessed them.
Luke ix. 16.
5. To make the sign of the cross upon; to cross (one's self). [Archaic] Holinshed.