BPage 165
- English Word Blacktail Definition A fish; the ruff or pope.
- English Word Blacktail Definition The black-tailed deer (Cervus / Cariacus Columbianus) of California and Oregon; also, the mule deer of the Rocky Mountains. See Mule deer.
- English Word Blackthorn Definition A spreading thorny shrub or small tree (Prunus spinosa), with blackish bark, and bearing little black plums, which are called sloes; the sloe.
- English Word Blackthorn Definition A species of Crataegus or hawthorn (C. tomentosa). Both are used for hedges.
- English Word Blackwash Definition A lotion made by mixing calomel and lime water.
- English Word Blackwash Definition A wash that blackens, as opposed to whitewash; hence, figuratively, calumny.
- English Word Blackwood Definition A name given to several dark-colored timbers. The East Indian black wood is from the tree Dalbergia latifolia.
- English Word Blackwork Definition Work wrought by blacksmiths; -- so called in distinction from that wrought by whitesmiths.
- English Word Bladder Definition A bag or sac in animals, which serves as the receptacle of some fluid; as, the urinary bladder; the gall bladder; -- applied especially to the urinary bladder, either within the animal, or when taken out and inflated with air.
- English Word Bladder Definition Any vesicle or blister, especially if filled with air, or a thin, watery fluid.
- English Word Bladder Definition A distended, membranaceous pericarp.
- English Word Bladder Definition Anything inflated, empty, or unsound.
- English Word Bladder Definition To swell out like a bladder with air; to inflate.
- English Word Bladder Definition To put up in bladders; as, bladdered lard.
- English Word Bladdered Definition of Bladder
- English Word Bladdering Definition of Bladder
- English Word Bladderwort Definition A genus (Utricularia) of aquatic or marshy plants, which usually bear numerous vesicles in the divisions of the leaves. These serve as traps for minute animals. See Ascidium.
- English Word Bladdery Definition Having bladders; also, resembling a bladder.
- English Word Blade Definition Properly, the leaf, or flat part of the leaf, of any plant, especially of gramineous plants. The term is sometimes applied to the spire of grasses.
- English Word Blade Definition The cutting part of an instrument; as, the blade of a knife or a sword.
- English Word Blade Definition The broad part of an oar; also, one of the projecting arms of a screw propeller.
- English Word Blade Definition The scapula or shoulder blade.
- English Word Blade Definition The principal rafters of a roof.
- English Word Blade Definition The four large shell plates on the sides, and the five large ones of the middle, of the carapace of the sea turtle, which yield the best tortoise shell.
- English Word Blade Definition A sharp-witted, dashing, wild, or reckless, fellow; -- a word of somewhat indefinite meaning.
- English Word Blade Definition To furnish with a blade.
- English Word Blade Definition To put forth or have a blade.
- English Word Bladebone Definition The scapula. See Blade, 4.
- English Word Bladed Definition Having a blade or blades; as, a two-bladed knife.
- English Word Bladed Definition Divested of blades; as, bladed corn.