Index of English words, starting with "bl"

(1) - Blight (n.) A rashlike eruption on the human skin.
(2) - Blight (n.) A downy species of aphis, or plant louse, destructive to fruit trees, infesting both the roots and branches; -- also applied to several other injurious insects.
(3) - Blight (n.) That which frustrates one's plans or withers one's hopes; that which impairs or destroys.
(4) - Blight (n.) The act of blighting, or the state of being blighted; a withering or mildewing, or a stoppage of growth in the whole or a part of a plant, etc.
(5) - Blight (n.) Mildew; decay; anything nipping or blasting; -- applied as a general name to various injuries or diseases of plants, causing the whole or a part to wither, whether occasioned by insects, fungi, or atmospheric influences.
(6) - Blight (v. i.) To be affected by blight; to blast; as, this vine never blights.
(7) - Blight (v. t.) Hence: To destroy the happiness of; to ruin; to mar essentially; to frustrate; as, to blight one's prospects.
(8) - Blight (v. t.) To affect with blight; to blast; to prevent the growth and fertility of.

(1) - Blind (v. t.) To deprive partially of vision; to make vision difficult for and painful to; to dazzle.
(2) - Blind (a.) Not having the faculty of discernment; destitute of intellectual light; unable or unwilling to understand or judge; as, authors are blind to their own defects.
(3) - Blind (a.) Undiscerning; undiscriminating; inconsiderate.
(4) - Blind (a.) Having such a state or condition as a thing would have to a person who is blind; not well marked or easily discernible; hidden; unseen; concealed; as, a blind path; a blind ditch.
(5) - Blind (a.) Involved; intricate; not easily followed or traced.
(6) - Blind (a.) Having no openings for light or passage; as, a blind wall; open only at one end; as, a blind alley; a blind gut.
(7) - Blind (a.) Unintelligible, or not easily intelligible; as, a blind passage in a book; illegible; as, blind writing.
(8) - Blind (a.) Destitute of the sense of seeing, either by natural defect or by deprivation; without sight.
(9) - Blind (v. t.) To make blind; to deprive of sight or discernment.
(10) - Blind (n.) Alt. of Blinde
(11) - Blind (v. t.) To darken; to obscure to the eye or understanding; to conceal; to deceive.
(12) - Blind (v. t.) To cover with a thin coating of sand and fine gravel; as a road newly paved, in order that the joints between the stones may be filled.
(13) - Blind (n.) Something to hinder sight or keep out light; a screen; a cover; esp. a hinged screen or shutter for a window; a blinder for a horse.
(14) - Blind (n.) Something to mislead the eye or the understanding, or to conceal some covert deed or design; a subterfuge.
(15) - Blind (n.) A blindage. See Blindage.
(16) - Blind (n.) A halting place.
(17) - Blind (a.) Abortive; failing to produce flowers or fruit; as, blind buds; blind flowers.