Light's last blushes tinged the distant hills.
Lyttleton.
At first blush, or At the first blush, at the first appearance or view. "At the first blush, we thought they had been ships come from France." Hakluyt. This phrase is used now more of ideas, opinions, etc., than of material things. "All purely identical propositions, obviously, and at first blush, appear," etc. Locke. -- To put to the blush, to cause to blush with shame; to put to shame.
Blush"er (blsh"r), n. One that blushes.
Blush"et (-t), n. A modest girl. [Obs.] B. Jonson.
Blush"ful (-fl), a. Full of blushes.
While from his ardent look the turning Spring
Averts her blushful face.
Thomson.
Blush"ing, a. Showing blushes; rosy red; having a warm and delicate color like some roses and other flowers; blooming; ruddy; roseate.
The dappled pink and blushing rose.
Prior.
Blush"ing, n. The act of turning red; the appearance of a reddish color or flush upon the cheeks.
Blush"ing*ly, adv. In a blushing manner; with a blush or blushes; as, to answer or confess blushingly.
Blush"less, a. Free from blushes; incapable of blushing; shameless; impudent.
Vice now, secure, her blushless front shall raise.
Dodsley.
Blush"y (&?;), a. Like a blush; having the color of a blush; rosy. [R.] "A blushy color." Harvey.
Blus"ter (&?;), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Blustered (&?;); p. pr. & vb. n. Blustering.] [Allied to blast.]
1. To blow fitfully with violence and noise, as wind; to be windy and boisterous, as the weather.
And ever-threatening storms
Of Chaos blustering round.
Milton.
2. To talk with noisy violence; to swagger, as a turbulent or boasting person; to act in a noisy, tumultuous way; to play the bully; to storm; to rage.
Your ministerial directors blustered like tragic tyrants.
Burke.
Blus"ter, v. t. To utter, or do, with noisy violence; to force by blustering; to bully.
He bloweth and blustereth out . . . his abominable blasphemy.
Sir T. More.
As if therewith he meant to bluster all princes into a perfect obedience to his commands.
Fuller.
Blus"ter, n. 1. Fitful noise and violence, as of a storm; violent winds; boisterousness.
To the winds they set
Their corners, when with bluster to confound
Sea, air, and shore.
Milton.
2. Noisy and violent or threatening talk; noisy and boastful language. L'Estrange.
Syn. -- Noise; boisterousness; tumult; turbulence; confusion; boasting; swaggering; bullying.
Blus"ter*er (&?;), n. One who, or that which, blusters; a noisy swaggerer.
Blus"ter*ing, a. 1. Exhibiting noisy violence, as the wind; stormy; tumultuous.
A tempest and a blustering day.
Shak.
2. Uttering noisy threats; noisy and swaggering; boisterous. "A blustering fellow." L'Estrange.
Blus"ter*ing*ly, adv. In a blustering manner.
Blus"ter*ous (&?;), a. Inclined to bluster; given to blustering; blustering. Motley.
Blus"trous (&?;), a. Blusterous. Shak.
Bo (&?;), interj. [Cf. W. bw, an interj. of threatening or frightening; n., terror, fear, dread.] An exclamation used to startle or frighten. [Spelt also boh and boo.]
Bo"a (b"), n.; pl. Boas. [L. boa a kind of water serpent. Perh. fr. bos an ox.] 1. (Zoöl.) A genus of large American serpents, including the boa constrictor, the emperor boa of Mexico (B. imperator), and the chevalier boa of Peru (B. eques).
The name is also applied to related genera; as, the dog-headed boa (Xiphosoma caninum).
2. A long, round fur tippet; -- so called from its resemblance in shape to the boa constrictor.
Bo"a con*strict"or (&?;). [NL. See Boa, and Constrictor.] (Zoöl.) A large and powerful serpent of tropical America, sometimes twenty or thirty feet long. See Illustration in Appendix.
It has a succession of spots, alternately black and yellow, extending along the back. It kills its prey by constriction. The name is also loosely applied to other large serpents which crush their prey, particularly to those of the genus Python, found in Asia and Africa.
||Bo`a*ner"ges (&?;). [Gr. &?;, fr. Heb. bn hargem sons of thunder. -- an appellation given by Christ to two of his disciples (James and John). See Mark iii. 17.] Any declamatory and vociferous preacher or orator.
Boar (br), n. [OE. bar, bor, bore, AS. br; akin to OHG. pr, MHG. br, G. bär, boar (but not bär bear), and perh. Russ. borov' boar.] (Zoöl.) The uncastrated male of swine; specifically, the wild hog.
Board (brd), n. [OE. bord, AS. bord board, shipboard; akin to bred plank, Icel. borð board, side of a ship, Goth. ftu-baurd footstool, D. bord board, G. brett, bort. See def. 8. √92.] 1. A piece of timber sawed thin, and of considerable length and breadth as compared with the thickness, -- used for building, etc.
When sawed thick, as over one and a half or two inches, it is usually called a plank.