Blink"-eyed` (&?;), a. Habitually winking. Marlowe.
Blirt (&?;), n. (Naut.) A gust of wind and rain. Ham. Nav. Encyc.
Bliss (bls), n.; pl. Blisses (bls"z). [OE. blis, blisse, AS. blis, blðs, fr. blðe blithe. See Blithe.] Orig., blithesomeness; gladness; now, the highest degree of happiness; blessedness; exalted felicity; heavenly joy.
An then at last our bliss
Full and perfect is.
Milton.
Syn. -- Blessedness; felicity; beatitude; happiness; joy; enjoyment. See Happiness.
Bliss"ful (&?;), a. Full of, characterized by, or causing, joy and felicity; happy in the highest degree. "Blissful solitude." Milton. -- Bliss"ful*ly, adv. -- Bliss"ful*ness, n.
Bliss"less, a. Destitute of bliss. Sir P. Sidney.
Blis"som (&?;), v. i. [For blithesome: but cf. also Icel. bl&?;sma of a goat at heat.] To be lustful; to be lascivious. [Obs.]
Blis"som, a. Lascivious; also, in heat; -- said of ewes.
Blis"ter (&?;), n. [OE.; akin to OD. bluyster, fr. the same root as blast, bladder, blow. See Blow to eject wind.] 1. A vesicle of the skin, containing watery matter or serum, whether occasioned by a burn or other injury, or by a vesicatory; a collection of serous fluid causing a bladderlike elevation of the cuticle.
And painful blisters swelled my tender hands.
Grainger.
2. Any elevation made by the separation of the film or skin, as on plants; or by the swelling of the substance at the surface, as on steel.
3. A vesicatory; a plaster of Spanish flies, or other matter, applied to raise a blister. Dunglison.
Blister beetle, a beetle used to raise blisters, esp. the Lytta (or Cantharis) vesicatoria, called Cantharis or Spanish fly by druggists. See Cantharis. -- Blister fly, a blister beetle. -- Blister plaster, a plaster designed to raise a blister; -- usually made of Spanish flies. -- Blister steel, crude steel formed from wrought iron by cementation; - - so called because of its blistered surface. Called also blistered steel. -- Blood blister. See under Blood.
Blis"ter, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Blistered (&?;); p. pr. & vb. n. Blistering.] To be affected with a blister or blisters; to have a blister form on.
Let my tongue blister.
Shak.
Blis"ter, v. t. 1. To raise a blister or blisters upon.
My hands were blistered.
Franklin.