Index of English words, starting with "bl"

(1) - Blacksmith (n.) A fish of the Pacific coast (Chromis, / Heliastes, punctipinnis), of a blackish color.
(2) - Blacksmith (n.) A smith who works in iron with a forge, and makes iron utensils, horseshoes, etc.

(1) - Bladder (v. t.) To put up in bladders; as, bladdered lard.
(2) - Bladder (v. t.) To swell out like a bladder with air; to inflate.
(3) - Bladder (n.) Anything inflated, empty, or unsound.
(4) - Bladder (n.) A distended, membranaceous pericarp.
(5) - Bladder (n.) Any vesicle or blister, especially if filled with air, or a thin, watery fluid.
(6) - Bladder (n.) A bag or sac in animals, which serves as the receptacle of some fluid; as, the urinary bladder; the gall bladder; -- applied especially to the urinary bladder, either within the animal, or when taken out and inflated with air.

(1) - Bladdery (a.) Having bladders; also, resembling a bladder.

(1) - Blade (v. i.) To put forth or have a blade.
(2) - Blade (v. t.) To furnish with a blade.
(3) - Blade (n.) A sharp-witted, dashing, wild, or reckless, fellow; -- a word of somewhat indefinite meaning.
(4) - Blade (n.) The four large shell plates on the sides, and the five large ones of the middle, of the carapace of the sea turtle, which yield the best tortoise shell.
(5) - Blade (n.) The principal rafters of a roof.
(6) - Blade (n.) The scapula or shoulder blade.
(7) - Blade (n.) The broad part of an oar; also, one of the projecting arms of a screw propeller.
(8) - Blade (n.) The cutting part of an instrument; as, the blade of a knife or a sword.
(9) - Blade (n.) Properly, the leaf, or flat part of the leaf, of any plant, especially of gramineous plants. The term is sometimes applied to the spire of grasses.