Blunt (v. t.) To repress or weaken, as any appetite, desire, or power of the mind; to impair the force, keenness, or susceptibility, of; as, to blunt the feelings.
Blunt (n.) A fencer's foil.
Blunt (n.) A short needle with a strong point. See Needle.
Blunt (n.) Money.
Bluntish (a.) Somewhat blunt.
Bluntly (adv.) In a blunt manner; coarsely; plainly; abruptly; without delicacy, or the usual forms of civility.
Bluntness (n.) Want of edge or point; dullness; obtuseness; want of sharpness.
Bluntness (n.) Abruptness of address; rude plainness.
Blunt-witted (n.) Dull; stupid.
Blurred (imp. & p. p.) of Blur
Blurring (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Blur
Blur (v. t.) To render obscure by making the form or outline of confused and uncertain, as by soiling; to smear; to make indistinct and confused; as, to blur manuscript by handling it while damp; to blur the impression of a woodcut by an excess of ink.
Blur (v. t.) To cause imperfection of vision in; to dim; to darken.
Blur (v. t.) To sully; to stain; to blemish, as reputation.
Blur (n.) That which obscures without effacing; a stain; a blot, as upon paper or other substance.
Blur (n.) A dim, confused appearance; indistinctness of vision; as, to see things with a blur; it was all blur.
Blur (n.) A moral stain or blot.
Blurry (a.) Full of blurs; blurred.
Blurted (imp. & p. p.) of Blurt
Blurting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Blurt
Blurt (v. t.) To utter suddenly and unadvisedly; to divulge inconsiderately; to ejaculate; -- commonly with out.
Blushed (imp. & p. p.) of Blush
Blushing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Blush
Blush (v. i.) 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.
Blush (v. i.) To grow red; to have a red or rosy color.
Blush (v. i.) To have a warm and delicate color, as some roses and other flowers.
Blush (v. t.) To suffuse with a blush; to redden; to make roseate.
Blush (v. t.) To express or make known by blushing.
Blush (n.) A suffusion of the cheeks or face with red, as from a sense of shame, confusion, or modesty.
Blush (n.) A red or reddish color; a rosy tint.
Blusher (n.) One that blushes.
Blushet (n.) A modest girl.
Blushful (a.) Full of blushes.
Blushing (a.) Showing blushes; rosy red; having a warm and delicate color like some roses and other flowers; blooming; ruddy; roseate.
Blushing (n.) The act of turning red; the appearance of a reddish color or flush upon the cheeks.
Blushingly (adv.) In a blushing manner; with a blush or blushes; as, to answer or confess blushingly.
Blushless (a.) Free from blushes; incapable of blushing; shameless; impudent.
Blushy (a.) Like a blush; having the color of a blush; rosy.
Blustered (imp. & p. p.) of Bluster
Blustering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bluster
Bluster (v. i.) To blow fitfully with violence and noise, as wind; to be windy and boisterous, as the weather.
Bluster (v. i.) 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.
Bluster (v. t.) To utter, or do, with noisy violence; to force by blustering; to bully.
Bluster (n.) Fitful noise and violence, as of a storm; violent winds; boisterousness.
Bluster (n.) Noisy and violent or threatening talk; noisy and boastful language.
Blusterer (n.) One who, or that which, blusters; a noisy swaggerer.
Blustering (a.) Exhibiting noisy violence, as the wind; stormy; tumultuous.
Blustering (a.) Uttering noisy threats; noisy and swaggering; boisterous.
Blusteringly (adv.) In a blustering manner.
Blusterous (a.) Inclined to bluster; given to blustering; blustering.
Blustrous (a.) Blusterous.
Bo (interj.) An exclamation used to startle or frighten.
Boas (pl. ) of Boa
Boa (n.) 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).
Boa (n.) A long, round fur tippet; -- so called from its resemblance in shape to the boa constrictor.
Boa constrictor () A large and powerful serpent of tropical America, sometimes twenty or thirty feet long. See Illustration in Appendix.
Boanerges () Any declamatory and vociferous preacher or orator.
Boar (n.) The uncastrated male of swine; specifically, the wild hog.
Board (n.) A piece of timber sawed thin, and of considerable length and breadth as compared with the thickness, -- used for building, etc.
Board (n.) A table to put food upon.
Board (n.) Hence: What is served on a table as food; stated meals; provision; entertainment; -- usually as furnished for pay; as, to work for one's board; the price of board.
Board (n.) A table at which a council or court is held. Hence: A council, convened for business, or any authorized assembly or meeting, public or private; a number of persons appointed or elected to sit in council for the management or direction of some public or private business or trust; as, the Board of Admiralty; a board of trade; a board of directors, trustees, commissioners, etc.
Board (n.) A square or oblong piece of thin wood or other material used for some special purpose, as, a molding board; a board or surface painted or arranged for a game; as, a chessboard; a backgammon board.
Board (n.) Paper made thick and stiff like a board, for book covers, etc.; pasteboard; as, to bind a book in boards.
Board (n.) The stage in a theater; as, to go upon the boards, to enter upon the theatrical profession.
Board (n.) The border or side of anything.
Board (n.) The side of a ship.
Board (n.) The stretch which a ship makes in one tack.
Boarded (imp. & p. p.) of Board
Boarding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Board
Board (v. t.) To cover with boards or boarding; as, to board a house.
Board (n.) To go on board of, or enter, as a ship, whether in a hostile or a friendly way.
Board (n.) To enter, as a railway car.
Board (n.) To furnish with regular meals, or with meals and lodgings, for compensation; to supply with daily meals.
Board (n.) To place at board, for compensation; as, to board one's horse at a livery stable.
Board (v. i.) To obtain meals, or meals and lodgings, statedly for compensation; as, he boards at the hotel.
Board (v. t.) To approach; to accost; to address; hence, to woo.
Boardable (a.) That can be boarded, as a ship.
Boarder (n.) One who has food statedly at another's table, or meals and lodgings in his house, for pay, or compensation of any kind.
Boarder (n.) One who boards a ship; one selected to board an enemy's ship.
Boarding (n.) The act of entering a ship, whether with a hostile or a friendly purpose.
Boarding (n.) The act of covering with boards; also, boards, collectively; or a covering made of boards.
Boarding (n.) The act of supplying, or the state of being supplied, with regular or specified meals, or with meals and lodgings, for pay.
Boarfish (n.) A Mediterranean fish (Capros aper), of the family Caproidae; -- so called from the resemblance of the extended lips to a hog's snout.
Boarfish (n.) An Australian percoid fish (Histiopterus recurvirostris), valued as a food fish.
Boarish (a.) Swinish; brutal; cruel.
Boasted (imp. & p. p.) of Boast
Boasting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Boast
Boast (v. i.) To vaunt one's self; to brag; to say or tell things which are intended to give others a high opinion of one's self or of things belonging to one's self; as, to boast of one's exploits courage, descent, wealth.
Boast (v. i.) To speak in exulting language of another; to glory; to exult.
Boast (v. t.) To display in ostentatious language; to speak of with pride, vanity, or exultation, with a view to self-commendation; to extol.
Boast (v. t.) To display vaingloriously.
Boast (v. t.) To possess or have; as, to boast a name.
Boast (v. t.) To dress, as a stone, with a broad chisel.
Boast (v. t.) To shape roughly as a preparation for the finer work to follow; to cut to the general form required.
Boast (n.) Act of boasting; vaunting or bragging.
Boast (n.) The cause of boasting; occasion of pride or exultation, -- sometimes of laudable pride or exultation.
Boastance (n.) Boasting.
Boaster (n.) One who boasts; a braggart.
Boaster (n.) A stone mason's broad-faced chisel.