Index of English words, starting with "bl"

(1) - Blasphemer (n.) One who blasphemes.

(1) - Blasphemous (a.) Speaking or writing blasphemy; uttering or exhibiting anything impiously irreverent; profane; as, a blasphemous person; containing blasphemy; as, a blasphemous book; a blasphemous caricature.

(1) - Blasphemously (adv.) In a blasphemous manner.

(1) - Blasphemy (n.) Figuratively, of things held in high honor: Calumny; abuse; vilification.
(2) - Blasphemy (n.) 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.

(1) - Blast (v. i.) To blow; to blow on a trumpet.
(2) - Blast (v. i.) To be blighted or withered; as, the bud blasted in the blossom.
(3) - Blast (v. t.) To rend open by any explosive agent, as gunpowder, dynamite, etc.; to shatter; as, to blast rocks.
(4) - Blast (v. t.) To confound by a loud blast or din.
(5) - Blast (v. t.) 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.
(6) - Blast (v. t.) 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.
(7) - Blast (n.) A flatulent disease of sheep.
(8) - Blast (n.) 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.
(9) - Blast (n.) A sudden, pernicious effect, as if by a noxious wind, especially on animals and plants; a blight.
(10) - Blast (n.) The sound made by blowing a wind instrument; strictly, the sound produces at one breath.
(11) - Blast (n.) 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.
(12) - Blast (n.) 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.
(13) - Blast (n.) A violent gust of wind.