BLAIN, bl[=a]n, _n._ a boil or blister. [A.S. _blegen_, a blister, prob.
from _blawan_, to blow.]
BLAME, bl[=a]m, _v.t._ to find fault with: to censure.--_n._ imputation of
a fault: crime: censure.--_adj._ BLAM'ABLE, deserving of blame:
faulty.--_n._ BLAM'ABLENESS.--_adv._ BLAM'ABLY.--_adj._ BLAME'FUL, meriting
blame: criminal.--_adv._ BLAME'FULLY.--_n._ BLAME'FULLNESS.--_adj._
BLAMELESS, without blame: guiltless: innocent.--_adv._ BLAME'LESSLY.--_ns._
BLAME'LESSNESS; BLAME'WORTHINESS, quality of being worthy of blame:
blamableness.--_adj._ BLAME'WORTHY, worthy of blame: culpable. [Fr.
_blâmer_, _blasmer_--Gr. _blasph[=e]me_-_ein_, to speak ill. See
BLASPHEME.]
BLANCH, blansh, _v.t._ to whiten.--_v.i._ to grow white. [Fr.
_blanchir_--_blanc_, white. See BLANK.]
BLANC-MANGE, bla-mawngzh', _n._ a white jelly prepared with milk. [Fr.
_blanc_, white, _manger_, food.]
BLAND, bland, _adj._ smooth: gentle: mild.--_adv._ BLANDLY.--_n._
BLAND'NESS. [L. _blandus_, perh.--_mla_(_n_)_dus_--Eng. _mild_.]
BLAND, bland, _n._ an Orcadian name for butter-milk and water. [Scand.
_blanda_.]
BLANDISH, bland'ish, _v.t._ to flatter and coax, to cajole.--_n._
BLAND'ISHMENT, act of expressing fondness: flattery: winning expressions or
actions. [Fr. _blandir_, _blandiss-_, from L. _bland[=i]ri_.]
BLANK, blangk, _adj._ without writing or marks, as in white paper: empty,
empty of results: vacant, confused: (_poetry_) not having rhyme.--_n._ a
paper without writing: a lottery-ticket having no mark, and therefore
valueless: an empty space, a void, or vacancy: (_archery_) the white mark
in the centre of a target at which an arrow is aimed, hence the object or
aim of anything: a form of document having blank spaces afterwards to be
filled in.--_v.t._ to make pale: (_Milton_) to confuse.--_n._
BLANK'-CART'RIDGE, a cartridge without a bullet.--_p.adj._ BLANKED, a
minced form of _damned_, from the usual form of printing d----d.--_adv._
BLANK'LY.--_ns._ BLANK'NESS; BLANK'-VERSE, verse without rhyme, esp. the
heroic verse of five feet. [Fr. _blanc_, from root of Ger. _blinken_, to
glitter--Old High Ger. _blichen_, Gr. _phlegein_, to shine.]
BLANKET, blangk'et, _n._ a white woollen covering for beds: a covering for
horses, &c.--_v.t._ to cover with a blanket: to toss in a blanket.--_n._
BLANK'ETING, cloth for blankets: the punishment of being tossed in a
blanket. [Fr. _blanchet_, dim. of _blanc_, from its null white colour,]
BLARE, bl[=a]r, _v.i._ to roar, to sound loudly, as a trumpet.--_n._ roar,
noise. [M. E. _blaren_, orig. _blasen_, from A.S. _blæsan_, to blow. See
BLAST.]
BLARNEY, blar'ni, _n._ pleasing flattery or cajoling talk.--_v.t._ to
beguile with such. [_Blarney_ Castle, near Cork, where there is a stone
difficult to reach, he who kisses which ever after possesses the gift of
blarney.]