Index of English words, starting with "bl"

(1) - Blemish (n.) Any mark of deformity or injury, whether physical or moral; anything that diminishes beauty, or renders imperfect that which is otherwise well formed; that which impairs reputation.
(2) - Blemish (v. t.) To tarnish, as reputation or character; to defame.
(3) - Blemish (v. t.) To mark with deformity; to injure or impair, as anything which is well formed, or excellent; to mar, or make defective, either the body or mind.

(1) - Blench (v. i. & t.) To grow or make pale.
(2) - Blench (n.) A looking aside or askance.
(3) - Blench (v. t.) To draw back from; to deny from fear.
(4) - Blench (v. t.) To baffle; to disconcert; to turn away; -- also, to obstruct; to hinder.
(5) - Blench (v. i.) To fly off; to turn aside.
(6) - Blench (v. i.) To shrink; to start back; to draw back, from lack of courage or resolution; to flinch; to quail.

(1) - Blencher (n.) One who blenches, flinches, or shrinks back.
(2) - Blencher (n.) One who, or that which, scares another; specifically, a person stationed to prevent the escape of the deer, at a hunt. See Blancher.

(1) - Blend (a.) To make blind, literally or figuratively; to dazzle; to deceive.
(2) - Blend (n.) A thorough mixture of one thing with another, as color, tint, etc., into another, so that it cannot be known where one ends or the other begins.
(3) - Blend (v. i.) To mingle; to mix; to unite intimately; to pass or shade insensibly into each other, as colors.
(4) - Blend (v. t.) To pollute by mixture or association; to spoil or corrupt; to blot; to stain.
(5) - Blend (v. t.) To mix or mingle together; esp. to mingle, combine, or associate so that the separate things mixed, or the line of demarcation, can not be distinguished. Hence: To confuse; to confound.