BPage 247
- 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.