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BLAWN COD, a split cod, half-dried, Ang.; so denominated, perhaps, because exposed for some time to the _wind_.
BLAWORT, _s._ The Blue bottle; Centaurea cya.n.u.s, Linn., S.
_Witch-bells_, also _Thumbles_, S. B.
_Neill._
From _bla_, livid, q. v. and _wort_, an herb.
BLAZE, _s._ The name given to allum ore, S.
BLE, BLIE, _s._ Complexion, colour.
_Gawan and Gol._
This word is common in O. E. A. S. _bleoh_, _blio_, color.
_To_ BLEACH _down_, or _along_, _v. n._ To fall flat to the ground.
_Bleach_ is also used to denote a fall of this description, Loth.
Perhaps from Isl. _blak-a_, verberare; as denoting the effect of a violent blow.
BLEACH, _s._ A blow, S. B.
_Gl. s.h.i.+rr._
_Poems Buchan Dialect._
_To_ BLEAD, _v. a._ Apparently, to train, or to lead on to the chace.
_Statist. Acc._
Alem. _blait-en_, _beleit-en_, comitari, conducere.
BLEAR, _s._ Something that obscures the sight.
V. ~Bleiris~.
_Ross._
_To_ BLECK, BLEK, _v. a._
1. To blacken, literally, S.
_Polwart._
2. To injure one's character.
_Bannatyne Poems._
3. To cause moral pollution.
_Abp. Hamiltoun._
A. S. _blaec-an_, denigrare. Isl. _blek_, liquor tinctorius.
_To_ BLECK, _v. a._ To puzzle, to reduce to a nonplus, in an examination or disputation, S.
Germ. _black-en_, _plack-en_, vexare, exagitare.
_To_ BLEEZE, _v. n._
1. To become a little sour. Milk is said to _bleeze_, or to be _bleezed_, when it is turned, but not congealed, S.; _blink_, synon.
From Germ. _blaes-en_, to blow; or, _blitz-en_, fulgurare; heat, especially when accompanied by lightning, more generally producing this effect.
2. The part. _bleezed_ signifies the state of one on whom intoxicating liquor begins to operate, S. It especially denotes the change produced in the expression of the countenance; as, _He looked bleezed-like_.
BLED, _part. pa._ Perhaps, sprung.
_Gawan and Gol._
BLEFLUM, BLEPHUM, _s._ A sham, an illusion, what has no reality in it, S.
V. ~Blaflum~, _v._
_Rutherford._
Isl. _flim_, irrisio, carmen famosum. Hence _flimt-a_, diffamo, _flimt_, nugae infames, G. Andr. p. 74. Su. G. _flimm-a_, illudere.
BLEHAND, BLIHAND, _adj._
_Sir Trist._
"_Blue_, from _bleah_, Sax. _caeruleus_. Blehand brown. A bluish brown," Gl. The word is merely A. S. _blae-hewen_ a little transformed.
The idea seems, "a brownish colour, inclining to purple or violet."
