BPage 254
- English Word Blaspheming Definition of Blaspheme
- English Word Blasphemous Definition Speaking or writing blasphemy; uttering or exhibiting anything impiously irreverent; profane; as, a blasphemous person; containing blasphemy; as, a blasphemous book; a blasphemous caricature.
- English Word Blasphemously Definition In a blasphemous manner.
- English Word Blasphemy Definition An indignity offered to God in words, writing, or signs; impiously irreverent words or signs addressed to, or used in reference to, God; speaking evil of God; also, the act of claiming the attributes or prerogatives of deity.
- English Word Blasphemy Definition Figuratively, of things held in high honor: Calumny; abuse; vilification.
- English Word Blast Definition A violent gust of wind.
- English Word Blast Definition A forcible stream of air from an orifice, as from a bellows, the mouth, etc. Hence: The continuous blowing to which one charge of ore or metal is subjected in a furnace; as, to melt so many tons of iron at a blast.
- English Word Blast Definition The exhaust steam from and engine, driving a column of air out of a boiler chimney, and thus creating an intense draught through the fire; also, any draught produced by the blast.
- English Word Blast Definition The sound made by blowing a wind instrument; strictly, the sound produces at one breath.
- English Word Blast Definition A sudden, pernicious effect, as if by a noxious wind, especially on animals and plants; a blight.
- English Word Blast Definition The act of rending, or attempting to rend, heavy masses of rock, earth, etc., by the explosion of gunpowder, dynamite, etc.; also, the charge used for this purpose.
- English Word Blast Definition A flatulent disease of sheep.
- English Word Blast Definition To injure, as by a noxious wind; to cause to wither; to stop or check the growth of, and prevent from fruit-bearing, by some pernicious influence; to blight; to shrivel.
- English Word Blast Definition Hence, to affect with some sudden violence, plague, calamity, or blighting influence, which destroys or causes to fail; to visit with a curse; to curse; to ruin; as, to blast pride, hopes, or character.
- English Word Blast Definition To confound by a loud blast or din.
- English Word Blast Definition To rend open by any explosive agent, as gunpowder, dynamite, etc.; to shatter; as, to blast rocks.
- English Word Blast Definition To be blighted or withered; as, the bud blasted in the blossom.
- English Word Blast Definition To blow; to blow on a trumpet.
- English Word Blast pipe Definition The exhaust pipe of a steam engine, or any pipe delivering steam or air, when so constructed as to cause a blast.
- English Word Blasted Definition of Blast