3. A moral stain or blot.

Lest she . . . will with her railing set a great blur on mine honesty and good name.

Udall.

Blur"ry (blûr"r), a. Full of blurs; blurred.

Blurt (blûrt), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Blurted; p. pr. & vb. n. Blurting.] [Cf. Blare.] To utter suddenly and unadvisedly; to divulge inconsiderately; to ejaculate; -- commonly with out.

Others . . . can not hold, but blurt out, those words which afterward they are forced to eat.

Hakewill.

To blurt at, to speak contemptuously of. [Obs.] Shak.

Blush (blsh) v. i. [imp. & p. p. Blushed (blsht); p. pr. & vb. n. Blushing.] [OE. bluschen to shine, look, turn red, AS. blyscan to glow; akin to blysa a torch, blsian to blush, D. blozen, Dan. blusse to blaze, blush.]

1. 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.

To the nuptial bower

I led her blushing like the morn.

Milton.

In the presence of the shameless and unblushing, the young offender is ashamed to blush.

Buckminster.

He would stroke

The head of modest and ingenuous worth,

That blushed at its own praise.

Cowper.

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