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   bailable
         adj 1: admitting of bail; "a bailable offense"
         2: eligible for bail; "a bailable defendant"

English Dictionary: baleful by the DICT Development Group
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
baleful
adj
  1. deadly or sinister; "the Florida eagles have a fierce baleful look"
    Synonym(s): baleful, baneful
  2. threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments; "a baleful look"; "forbidding thunderclouds"; "his tone became menacing"; "ominous rumblings of discontent"; "sinister storm clouds"; "a sinister smile"; "his threatening behavior"; "ugly black clouds"; "the situation became ugly"
    Synonym(s): baleful, forbidding, menacing, minacious, minatory, ominous, sinister, threatening
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
balefully
adv
  1. in a baleful manner; "she looked at him balefully"
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
balefulness
n
  1. the quality or nature of being harmful or evil [syn: maleficence, mischief, balefulness]
    Antonym(s): beneficence
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
ball field
n
  1. the baseball playing field [syn: ball field, {baseball field}, diamond]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
ball valve
n
  1. any valve that checks flow by the seating of a ball
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
ballplayer
n
  1. an athlete who plays baseball [syn: ballplayer, {baseball player}]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
bell apple
n
  1. the edible yellow fruit of the Jamaica honeysuckle [syn: bell apple, sweet cup, water lemon, yellow granadilla]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
bellflower
n
  1. any of various plants of the genus Campanula having blue or white bell-shaped flowers
    Synonym(s): campanula, bellflower
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
bellflower family
n
  1. family of plants of the order Campanulales; in some classifications includes Lobeliaceae
    Synonym(s): Campanulaceae, family Campanulaceae, bellflower family
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
bellpull
n
  1. a handle or cord that is pulled to ring a doorbell or a servant's bell etc.
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
belly flop
n
  1. a dive in which the abdomen bears the main force of impact with the water
    Synonym(s): belly flop, belly flopper, belly whop, belly whopper
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
belly flopper
n
  1. a dive in which the abdomen bears the main force of impact with the water
    Synonym(s): belly flop, belly flopper, belly whop, belly whopper
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
belly-flop
v
  1. dive so that one hits the water with one's belly
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
bellyful
n
  1. an undesirable overabundance; "a bellyful of your complaints"
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
bilabial
adj
  1. of or relating to or being a speech sound that is articulated using both lips; "bilabial fricatives"
n
  1. a consonant that is articulated using both lips; /p/ or /b/ or /w/
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
bill of health
n
  1. a certificate saying that a departing ship's company is healthy (to be presented at the next port of arrival)
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
bill of lading
n
  1. a receipt given by the carrier to the shipper acknowledging receipt of the goods being shipped and specifying the terms of delivery
    Synonym(s): bill of lading, waybill
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
billfold
n
  1. a pocket-size case for holding papers and paper money [syn: wallet, billfold, notecase, pocketbook]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Blephilia
n
  1. small genus of North American herbs: wood mints [syn: Blephilia, genus Blephilia]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Blephilia celiata
n
  1. a variety of wood mint [syn: downy wood mint, {Blephilia celiata}]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Blephilia hirsuta
n
  1. a variety of wood mint [syn: hairy wood mint, {Blephilia hirsuta}]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
blow fly
n
  1. large usually hairy metallic blue or green fly; lays eggs in carrion or dung or wounds
    Synonym(s): blowfly, blow fly
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
blowball
n
  1. any of several herbs of the genus Taraxacum having long tap roots and deeply notched leaves and bright yellow flowers followed by fluffy seed balls
    Synonym(s): dandelion, blowball
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
blowfly
n
  1. large usually hairy metallic blue or green fly; lays eggs in carrion or dung or wounds
    Synonym(s): blowfly, blow fly
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
blue blood
n
  1. a member of the aristocracy [syn: aristocrat, {blue blood}, patrician]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
blue bull
n
  1. large Indian antelope; male is blue-grey with white markings; female is brownish with no horns
    Synonym(s): nilgai, nylghai, nylghau, blue bull, Boselaphus tragocamelus
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
blue false indigo
n
  1. wild indigo of the eastern United States having racemes of blue flowers
    Synonym(s): blue false indigo, Baptisia australis
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
blue flag
n
  1. a common iris of the eastern United States having blue or blue-violet flowers; root formerly used medicinally
    Synonym(s): blue flag, Iris versicolor
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
blue fleabane
n
  1. widespread weed with pale purple-blue flowers [syn: {blue fleabane}, Erigeron acer]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
blue-belly
n
  1. common western lizard; seen on logs or rocks [syn: {western fence lizard}, swift, blue-belly, Sceloporus occidentalis]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
blue-black
adj
  1. of black tinged with blue [syn: blue-black, {bluish black}]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
blue-blind
adj
  1. inability to see the color blue or to distinguish the colors blue and yellow
    Synonym(s): tritanopic, blue-blind
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
blue-blindness
n
  1. rare form of dichromacy characterized by a lowered sensitivity to blue light resulting in an inability to distinguish blue and yellow
    Synonym(s): tritanopia, blue- blindness
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
blue-blooded
adj
  1. belonging to or characteristic of the nobility or aristocracy; "an aristocratic family"; "aristocratic Bostonians"; "aristocratic government"; "a blue family"; "blue blood"; "the blue-blooded aristocracy"; "of gentle blood"; "patrician landholders of the American South"; "aristocratic bearing"; "aristocratic features"; "patrician tastes"
    Synonym(s): aristocratic, aristocratical, blue, blue-blooded, gentle, patrician
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
blue-flowered
adj
  1. having blue flowers
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
blue-violet
adj
  1. of violet tinted with blue [syn: blue-violet, {bluish- violet}]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
bluebell
n
  1. sometimes placed in genus Scilla [syn: wild hyacinth, wood hyacinth, bluebell, harebell, Hyacinthoides nonscripta, Scilla nonscripta]
  2. one of the most handsome prairie wildflowers having large erect bell-shaped bluish flowers; of moist places in prairies and fields from eastern Colorado and Nebraska south to New Mexico and Texas
    Synonym(s): prairie gentian, tulip gentian, bluebell, Eustoma grandiflorum
  3. perennial of northern hemisphere with slender stems and bell- shaped blue flowers
    Synonym(s): harebell, bluebell, Campanula rotundifolia
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
bluebill
n
  1. diving ducks of North America having a bluish-grey bill
    Synonym(s): scaup, scaup duck, bluebill, broadbill
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
bluffly
adv
  1. in a blunt direct manner; "he spoke bluntly"; "he stated his opinion flat-out"; "he was criticized roundly"
    Synonym(s): bluffly, bluntly, brusquely, flat out, roundly
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
boll weevil
n
  1. greyish weevil that lays its eggs in cotton bolls destroying the cotton
    Synonym(s): boll weevil, Anthonomus grandis
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
bowlful
n
  1. the quantity contained in a bowl
    Synonym(s): bowl, bowlful
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
bulbil
n
  1. small bulb or bulb-shaped growth arising from the leaf axil or in the place of flowers
    Synonym(s): bulbil, bulblet
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
bulblet
n
  1. small bulb or bulb-shaped growth arising from the leaf axil or in the place of flowers
    Synonym(s): bulbil, bulblet
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
bulblet bladder fern
n
  1. North American fern often bearing bulbils on the leaflets
    Synonym(s): bulblet fern, bulblet bladder fern, berry fern, Cystopteris bulbifera
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
bulblet fern
n
  1. North American fern often bearing bulbils on the leaflets
    Synonym(s): bulblet fern, bulblet bladder fern, berry fern, Cystopteris bulbifera
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
bulblike
adj
  1. shaped like a bulb [syn: bulblike, bulbous, {bulb- shaped}]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
bulbul
n
  1. nightingale spoken of in Persian poetry
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
bully pulpit
n
  1. a public office of sufficiently high rank that it provides the holder with an opportunity to speak out and be listened to on any matter; "the American presidency is a bully pulpit"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Bailable \Bail"a*ble\, a.
      1. Having the right or privilege of being admitted to bail,
            upon bond with sureties; -- used of persons. [bd]He's
            bailable, I'm sure.[b8] --Ford.
  
      2. Admitting of bail; as, a bailable offense.
  
      3. That can be delivered in trust; as, bailable goods.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Baleful \Bale"ful\, a. [AS. bealoful. See {Bale} misery.]
      1. Full of deadly or pernicious influence; destructive.
            [bd]Baleful enemies.[b8] --Shak.
  
                     Four infernal rivers that disgorge Into the burning
                     lake their baleful streams.               --Milton.
  
      2. Full of grief or sorrow; woeful; sad. [Archaic]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Balefully \Bale"ful*ly\, adv.
      In a baleful manner; perniciously.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Balefulness \Bale"ful*ness\, n.
      The quality or state of being baleful.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Valve \Valve\, n. [L. valva the leaf, fold, or valve of a door:
      cf. F. valve.]
      1. A door; especially, one of a pair of folding doors, or one
            of the leaves of such a door.
  
                     Swift through the valves the visionary fair
                     Repassed.                                          --Pope.
  
                     Heavily closed, . . . the valves of the barn doors.
                                                                              --Longfellow.
  
      2. A lid, plug, or cover, applied to an aperture so that by
            its movement, as by swinging, lifting and falling,
            sliding, turning, or the like, it will open or close the
            aperture to permit or prevent passage, as of a fluid.
  
      Note: A valve may act automatically so as to be opened by the
               effort of a fluid to pass in one direction, and closed
               by the effort to pass in the other direction, as a
               clack valve; or it may be opened or closed by hand or
               by mechanism, as a screw valve, or a slide valve.
  
      3. (Anat.) One or more membranous partitions, flaps, or
            folds, which permit the passage of the contents of a
            vessel or cavity in one direction, but stop or retard the
            flow in the opposite direction; as, the ileocolic, mitral,
            and semilunar valves.
  
      4. (Bot.)
            (a) One of the pieces into which a capsule naturally
                  separates when it bursts.
            (b) One of the two similar portions of the shell of a
                  diatom.
            (c) A small portion of certain anthers, which opens like a
                  trapdoor to allow the pollen to escape, as in the
                  barberry.
  
      5. (Zo[94]l.) One of the pieces or divisions of bivalve or
            multivalve shells.
  
      {Air valve}, {Ball valve}, {Check valve}, etc. See under
            {Air}. {Ball}, {Check}, etc.
  
      {Double-beat valve}, a kind of balance valve usually
            consisting of a movable, open-ended, turban-shaped shell
            provided with two faces of nearly equal diameters, one
            above another, which rest upon two corresponding seats
            when the valve is closed.
  
      {Equilibrium valve}.
            (a) A balance valve. See under {Balance}.
            (b) A valve for permitting air, steam, water, etc., to
                  pass into or out of a chamber so as to establish or
                  maintain equal pressure within and without.
  
      {Valve chest} (Mach.), a chamber in which a valve works;
            especially (Steam Engine), the steam chest; -- called in
            England {valve box}, and {valve casing}. See {Steam
            chest}, under {Steam}.
  
      {Valve face} (Mach.), that part of the surface of a valve
            which comes in contact with the {valve seat}.
  
      {Valve gear}, [or] {Valve motion} (Steam Engine), the system
            of parts by which motion is given to the valve or valves
            for the distribution of steam in the cylinder. For an
            illustration of one form of valve gear, see {Link motion}.
           
  
      {Valve seat}. (Mach.)
            (a) The fixed surface on which a valve rests or against
                  which it presses.
            (b) A part or piece on which such a surface is formed.
  
      {Valve stem} (Mach.), a rod attached to a valve, for moving
            it.
  
      {Valve yoke} (Mach.), a strap embracing a slide valve and
            connecting it to the valve stem.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Ball \Ball\ (b[add]l), n. [OE. bal, balle; akin to OHG. balla,
      palla, G. ball, Icel. b[94]llr, ball; cf. F. balle. Cf. 1st
      {Bale}, n., {Pallmall}.]
      1. Any round or roundish body or mass; a sphere or globe; as,
            a ball of twine; a ball of snow.
  
      2. A spherical body of any substance or size used to play
            with, as by throwing, knocking, kicking, etc.
  
      3. A general name for games in which a ball is thrown,
            kicked, or knocked. See {Baseball}, and {Football}.
  
      4. Any solid spherical, cylindrical, or conical projectile of
            lead or iron, to be discharged from a firearm; as, a
            cannon ball; a rifle ball; -- often used collectively; as,
            powder and ball. Spherical balls for the smaller firearms
            are commonly called {bullets}.
  
      5. (Pyrotechnics & Mil.) A flaming, roundish body shot into
            the air; a case filled with combustibles intended to burst
            and give light or set fire, or to produce smoke or stench;
            as, a fire ball; a stink ball.
  
      6. (Print.) A leather-covered cushion, fastened to a handle
            called a ballstock; -- formerly used by printers for
            inking the form, but now superseded by the roller.
  
      7. A roundish protuberant portion of some part of the body;
            as, the ball of the thumb; the ball of the foot.
  
      8. (Far.) A large pill, a form in which medicine is commonly
            given to horses; a bolus. --White.
  
      9. The globe or earth. --Pope.
  
                     Move round the dark terrestrial ball. --Addison.
  
      {Ball and socket joint}, a joint in which a ball moves within
            a socket, so as to admit of motion in every direction
            within certain limits.
  
      {Ball bearings}, a mechanical device for lessening the
            friction of axle bearings by means of small loose metal
            balls.
  
      {Ball cartridge}, a cartridge containing a ball, as
            distinguished from a blank cartridge, containing only
            powder.
  
      {Ball cock}, a faucet or valve which is opened or closed by
            the fall or rise of a ball floating in water at the end of
            a lever.
  
      {Ball gudgeon}, a pivot of a spherical form, which permits
            lateral deflection of the arbor or shaft, while retaining
            the pivot in its socket. --Knight.
  
      {Ball lever}, the lever used in a ball cock.
  
      {Ball of the eye}, the eye itself, as distinguished from its
            lids and socket; -- formerly, the pupil of the eye.
  
      {Ball valve} (Mach.), a contrivance by which a ball, placed
            in a circular cup with a hole in its bottom, operates as a
            valve.
  
      {Ball vein} (Mining), a sort of iron ore, found in loose
            masses of a globular form, containing sparkling particles.
           
  
      {Three balls}, or {Three golden balls}, a pawnbroker's sign
            or shop.
  
      Syn: See {Globe}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Ball-flower \Ball"-flow`er\, n. (Arch.)
      An ornament resembling a ball placed in a circular flower,
      the petals of which form a cup round it, -- usually inserted
      in a hollow molding.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Belibel \Be*li"bel\, v. t. [See {Libel}, v. t. ]
      To libel or traduce; to calumniate. --Fuller.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Beliefful \Be*lief"ful\, a.
      Having belief or faith.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Bell \Bell\, n. [AS. belle, fr. bellan to bellow. See {Bellow}.]
      1. A hollow metallic vessel, usually shaped somewhat like a
            cup with a flaring mouth, containing a clapper or tongue,
            and giving forth a ringing sound on being struck.
  
      Note: Bells have been made of various metals, but the best
               have always been, as now, of an alloy of copper and
               tin.
  
      {The Liberty Bell}, the famous bell of the Philadelphia State
            House, which rang when the Continental Congress declared
            the Independence of the United States, in 1776. It had
            been cast in 1753, and upon it were the words [bd]Proclaim
            liberty throughout all the land, to all the inhabitants
            thereof.[b8]
  
      2. A hollow perforated sphere of metal containing a loose
            ball which causes it to sound when moved.
  
      3. Anything in the form of a bell, as the cup or corol of a
            flower. [bd]In a cowslip's bell I lie.[b8] --Shak.
  
      4. (Arch.) That part of the capital of a column included
            between the abacus and neck molding; also used for the
            naked core of nearly cylindrical shape, assumed to exist
            within the leafage of a capital.
  
      5. pl. (Naut.) The strikes of the bell which mark the time;
            or the time so designated.
  
      Note: On shipboard, time is marked by a bell, which is struck
               eight times at 4, 8, and 12 o'clock. Half an hour after
               it has struck [bd]eight bells[b8] it is struck once,
               and at every succeeding half hour the number of strokes
               is increased by one, till at the end of the four hours,
               which constitute a watch, it is struck eight times.
  
      {To bear away the bell}, to win the prize at a race where the
            prize was a bell; hence, to be superior in something.
            --Fuller.
  
      {To bear the bell}, to be the first or leader; -- in allusion
            to the bellwether or a flock, or the leading animal of a
            team or drove, when wearing a bell.
  
      {To curse by bell}, {book}, {and candle}, a solemn form of
            excommunication used in the Roman Catholic church, the
            bell being tolled, the book of offices for the purpose
            being used, and three candles being extinguished with
            certain ceremonies. --Nares.
  
      {To lose the bell}, to be worsted in a contest. [bd]In single
            fight he lost the bell.[b8] --Fairfax.
  
      {To shake the bells}, to move, give notice, or alarm. --Shak.
  
      Note: Bell is much used adjectively or in combinations; as,
               bell clapper; bell foundry; bell hanger; bell-mouthed;
               bell tower, etc., which, for the most part, are
               self-explaining.
  
      {Bell arch} (Arch.), an arch of unusual form, following the
            curve of an ogee.
  
      {Bell cage}, or {Bell carriage} (Arch.), a timber frame
            constructed to carry one or more large bells.
  
      {Bell cot} (Arch.), a small or subsidiary construction,
            frequently corbeled out from the walls of a structure, and
            used to contain and support one or more bells.
  
      {Bell deck} (Arch.), the floor of a belfry made to serve as a
            roof to the rooms below.
  
      {Bell founder}, one whose occupation it is to found or cast
            bells.
  
      {Bell foundry}, or {Bell foundery}, a place where bells are
            founded or cast.
  
      {Bell gable} (Arch.), a small gable-shaped construction,
            pierced with one or more openings, and used to contain
            bells.
  
      {Bell glass}. See {Bell jar}.
  
      {Bell hanger}, a man who hangs or puts up bells.
  
      {Bell pull}, a cord, handle, or knob, connecting with a bell
            or bell wire, and which will ring the bell when pulled.
            --Aytoun.
  
      {Bell punch}, a kind of conductor's punch which rings a bell
            when used.
  
      {Bell ringer}, one who rings a bell or bells, esp. one whose
            business it is to ring a church bell or chime, or a set of
            musical bells for public entertainment.
  
      {Bell roof} (Arch.), a roof shaped according to the general
            lines of a bell.
  
      {Bell rope}, a rope by which a church or other bell is rung.
           
  
      {Bell tent}, a circular conical-topped tent.
  
      {Bell trap}, a kind of bell shaped stench trap.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Bellflower \Bell"flow`er\, n. [F. bellefleur, lit., beautiful
      flower.]
      A kind of apple. The yellow bellflower is a large, yellow
      winter apple. [Written also {bellefleur}.]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Bellflower \Bell"flow`er\, n. (Bot.)
      A plant of the genus Campanula; -- so named from its
      bell-shaped flowers.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Bellflower \Bell"flow`er\, n. [F. bellefleur, lit., beautiful
      flower.]
      A kind of apple. The yellow bellflower is a large, yellow
      winter apple. [Written also {bellefleur}.]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   d8Campanula \[d8]Cam*pan"u*la\, n. [LL. campanula a little bell;
      dim. of campana bell.] (Bot.)
      A large genus of plants bearing bell-shaped flowers, often of
      great beauty; -- also called {bellflower}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Bellflower \Bell"flow`er\, n. (Bot.)
      A plant of the genus Campanula; -- so named from its
      bell-shaped flowers.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Bellflower \Bell"flow`er\, n. [F. bellefleur, lit., beautiful
      flower.]
      A kind of apple. The yellow bellflower is a large, yellow
      winter apple. [Written also {bellefleur}.]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   d8Campanula \[d8]Cam*pan"u*la\, n. [LL. campanula a little bell;
      dim. of campana bell.] (Bot.)
      A large genus of plants bearing bell-shaped flowers, often of
      great beauty; -- also called {bellflower}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Bellyful \Bel"ly*ful\, n.
      As much as satisfies the appetite. Hence: A great abundance;
      more than enough. --Lloyd.
  
               King James told his son that he would have his bellyful
               of parliamentary impeachments.               --Johnson.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Bewailable \Be*wail"a*ble\, a.
      Such as may, or ought to, be bewailed; lamentable.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Bill \Bill\, n. [OE. bill, bille, fr. LL. billa (or OF. bille),
      for L. bulla anything rounded, LL., seal, stamp, letter,
      edict, roll; cf. F. bille a ball, prob. fr. Ger.; cf. MHG.
      bickel, D. bikkel, dice. Cf. {Bull} papal edict, {Billet} a
      paper.]
      1. (Law) A declaration made in writing, stating some wrong
            the complainant has suffered from the defendant, or a
            fault committed by some person against a law.
  
      2. A writing binding the signer or signers to pay a certain
            sum at a future day or on demand, with or without
            interest, as may be stated in the document. [Eng.]
  
      Note: In the United States, it is usually called a note, a
               note of hand, or a promissory note.
  
      3. A form or draft of a law, presented to a legislature for
            enactment; a proposed or projected law.
  
      4. A paper, written or printed, and posted up or given away,
            to advertise something, as a lecture, a play, or the sale
            of goods; a placard; a poster; a handbill.
  
                     She put up the bill in her parlor window. --Dickens.
  
      5. An account of goods sold, services rendered, or work done,
            with the price or charge; a statement of a creditor's
            claim, in gross or by items; as, a grocer's bill.
  
      6. Any paper, containing a statement of particulars; as, a
            bill of charges or expenditures; a weekly bill of
            mortality; a bill of fare, etc.
  
      {Bill of adventure}. See under {Adventure}.
  
      {Bill of costs}, a statement of the items which form the
            total amount of the costs of a party to a suit or action.
           
  
      {Bill of credit}.
            (a) Within the constitution of the United States, a paper
                  issued by a State, on the mere faith and credit of the
                  State, and designed to circulate as money. No State
                  shall [bd]emit bills of credit.[b8] --U. S. Const.
                  --Peters. --Wharton. --Bouvier
            (b) Among merchants, a letter sent by an agent or other
                  person to a merchant, desiring him to give credit to
                  the bearer for goods or money.
  
      {Bill of divorce}, in the Jewish law, a writing given by the
            husband to the wife, by which the marriage relation was
            dissolved. --Jer. iii. 8.
  
      {Bill of entry}, a written account of goods entered at the
            customhouse, whether imported or intended for exportation.
           
  
      {Bill of exceptions}. See under {Exception}.
  
      {Bill of exchange} (Com.), a written order or request from
            one person or house to another, desiring the latter to pay
            to some person designated a certain sum of money therein
            generally is, and, to be negotiable, must be, made payable
            to order or to bearer. So also the order generally
            expresses a specified time of payment, and that it is
            drawn for value. The person who draws the bill is called
            the drawer, the person on whom it is drawn is, before
            acceptance, called the drawee, -- after acceptance, the
            acceptor; the person to whom the money is directed to be
            paid is called the payee. The person making the order may
            himself be the payee. The bill itself is frequently called
            a draft. See {Exchange}. --Chitty.
  
      {Bill of fare}, a written or printed enumeration of the
            dishes served at a public table, or of the dishes (with
            prices annexed) which may be ordered at a restaurant, etc.
           
  
      {Bill of health}, a certificate from the proper authorities
            as to the state of health of a ship's company at the time
            of her leaving port.
  
      {Bill of indictment}, a written accusation lawfully presented
            to a grand jury. If the jury consider the evidence
            sufficient to support the accusation, they indorse it
            [bd]A true bill,[b8] otherwise they write upon it [bd]Not
            a true bill,[b8] or [bd]Not found,[b8] or
            [bd]Ignoramus[b8], or [bd]Ignored.[b8]
  
      {Bill of lading}, a written account of goods shipped by any
            person, signed by the agent of the owner of the vessel, or
            by its master, acknowledging the receipt of the goods, and
            promising to deliver them safe at the place directed,
            dangers of the sea excepted. It is usual for the master to
            sign two, three, or four copies of the bill; one of which
            he keeps in possession, one is kept by the shipper, and
            one is sent to the consignee of the goods.
  
      {Bill of mortality}, an official statement of the number of
            deaths in a place or district within a given time; also, a
            district required to be covered by such statement; as, a
            place within the bills of mortality of London.
  
      {Bill of pains and penalties}, a special act of a legislature
            which inflicts a punishment less than death upon persons
            supposed to be guilty of treason or felony, without any
            conviction in the ordinary course of judicial proceedings.
            --Bouvier. --Wharton.
  
      {Bill of parcels}, an account given by the seller to the
            buyer of the several articles purchased, with the price of
            each.
  
      {Bill of particulars} (Law), a detailed statement of the
            items of a plaintiff's demand in an action, or of the
            defendant's set-off.
  
      {Bill of rights}, a summary of rights and privileges claimed
            by a people. Such was the declaration presented by the
            Lords and Commons of England to the Prince and Princess of
            Orange in 1688, and enacted in Parliament after they
            became king and queen. In America, a bill or declaration
            of rights is prefixed to most of the constitutions of the
            several States.
  
      {Bill of sale}, a formal instrument for the conveyance or
            transfer of goods and chattels.
  
      {Bill of sight}, a form of entry at the customhouse, by which
            goods, respecting which the importer is not possessed of
            full information, may be provisionally landed for
            examination.
  
      {Bill of store}, a license granted at the customhouse to
            merchants, to carry such stores and provisions as are
            necessary for a voyage, custom free. --Wharton.
  
      {Bills payable} (pl.), the outstanding unpaid notes or
            acceptances made and issued by an individual or firm.
  
      {Bills receivable} (pl.), the unpaid promissory notes or
            acceptances held by an individual or firm. --McElrath.
  
      {A true bill}, a bill of indictment sanctioned by a grand
            jury.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Health \Health\, n. [OE. helthe, AS. h[?]lp, fr. h[be]l hale,
      sound, whole. See {Whole}.]
      1. The state of being hale, sound, or whole, in body, mind,
            or soul; especially, the state of being free from physical
            disease or pain.
  
                     There is no health in us.                  --Book of
                                                                              Common Prayer.
  
                     Though health may be enjoyed without gratitude, it
                     can not be sported with without loss, or regained by
                     courage.                                             --Buckminster.
  
      2. A wish of health and happiness, as in pledging a person in
            a toast. [bd]Come, love and health to all.[b8] --Shak.
  
      {Bill of health}. See under {Bill}.
  
      {Health lift}, a machine for exercise, so arranged that a
            person lifts an increasing weight, or moves a spring of
            increasing tension, in such a manner that most of the
            muscles of the body are brought into gradual action; --
            also called {lifting machine}.
  
      {Health officer}, one charged with the enforcement of the
            sanitary laws of a port or other place.
  
      {To drink a health}. See under {Drink}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Lading \Lad"ing\, n.
      1. The act of loading.
  
      2. That which lades or constitutes a load or cargo; freight;
            burden; as, the lading of a ship.
  
      {Bill of lading}. See under {Bill}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Bill \Bill\, n. [OE. bill, bille, fr. LL. billa (or OF. bille),
      for L. bulla anything rounded, LL., seal, stamp, letter,
      edict, roll; cf. F. bille a ball, prob. fr. Ger.; cf. MHG.
      bickel, D. bikkel, dice. Cf. {Bull} papal edict, {Billet} a
      paper.]
      1. (Law) A declaration made in writing, stating some wrong
            the complainant has suffered from the defendant, or a
            fault committed by some person against a law.
  
      2. A writing binding the signer or signers to pay a certain
            sum at a future day or on demand, with or without
            interest, as may be stated in the document. [Eng.]
  
      Note: In the United States, it is usually called a note, a
               note of hand, or a promissory note.
  
      3. A form or draft of a law, presented to a legislature for
            enactment; a proposed or projected law.
  
      4. A paper, written or printed, and posted up or given away,
            to advertise something, as a lecture, a play, or the sale
            of goods; a placard; a poster; a handbill.
  
                     She put up the bill in her parlor window. --Dickens.
  
      5. An account of goods sold, services rendered, or work done,
            with the price or charge; a statement of a creditor's
            claim, in gross or by items; as, a grocer's bill.
  
      6. Any paper, containing a statement of particulars; as, a
            bill of charges or expenditures; a weekly bill of
            mortality; a bill of fare, etc.
  
      {Bill of adventure}. See under {Adventure}.
  
      {Bill of costs}, a statement of the items which form the
            total amount of the costs of a party to a suit or action.
           
  
      {Bill of credit}.
            (a) Within the constitution of the United States, a paper
                  issued by a State, on the mere faith and credit of the
                  State, and designed to circulate as money. No State
                  shall [bd]emit bills of credit.[b8] --U. S. Const.
                  --Peters. --Wharton. --Bouvier
            (b) Among merchants, a letter sent by an agent or other
                  person to a merchant, desiring him to give credit to
                  the bearer for goods or money.
  
      {Bill of divorce}, in the Jewish law, a writing given by the
            husband to the wife, by which the marriage relation was
            dissolved. --Jer. iii. 8.
  
      {Bill of entry}, a written account of goods entered at the
            customhouse, whether imported or intended for exportation.
           
  
      {Bill of exceptions}. See under {Exception}.
  
      {Bill of exchange} (Com.), a written order or request from
            one person or house to another, desiring the latter to pay
            to some person designated a certain sum of money therein
            generally is, and, to be negotiable, must be, made payable
            to order or to bearer. So also the order generally
            expresses a specified time of payment, and that it is
            drawn for value. The person who draws the bill is called
            the drawer, the person on whom it is drawn is, before
            acceptance, called the drawee, -- after acceptance, the
            acceptor; the person to whom the money is directed to be
            paid is called the payee. The person making the order may
            himself be the payee. The bill itself is frequently called
            a draft. See {Exchange}. --Chitty.
  
      {Bill of fare}, a written or printed enumeration of the
            dishes served at a public table, or of the dishes (with
            prices annexed) which may be ordered at a restaurant, etc.
           
  
      {Bill of health}, a certificate from the proper authorities
            as to the state of health of a ship's company at the time
            of her leaving port.
  
      {Bill of indictment}, a written accusation lawfully presented
            to a grand jury. If the jury consider the evidence
            sufficient to support the accusation, they indorse it
            [bd]A true bill,[b8] otherwise they write upon it [bd]Not
            a true bill,[b8] or [bd]Not found,[b8] or
            [bd]Ignoramus[b8], or [bd]Ignored.[b8]
  
      {Bill of lading}, a written account of goods shipped by any
            person, signed by the agent of the owner of the vessel, or
            by its master, acknowledging the receipt of the goods, and
            promising to deliver them safe at the place directed,
            dangers of the sea excepted. It is usual for the master to
            sign two, three, or four copies of the bill; one of which
            he keeps in possession, one is kept by the shipper, and
            one is sent to the consignee of the goods.
  
      {Bill of mortality}, an official statement of the number of
            deaths in a place or district within a given time; also, a
            district required to be covered by such statement; as, a
            place within the bills of mortality of London.
  
      {Bill of pains and penalties}, a special act of a legislature
            which inflicts a punishment less than death upon persons
            supposed to be guilty of treason or felony, without any
            conviction in the ordinary course of judicial proceedings.
            --Bouvier. --Wharton.
  
      {Bill of parcels}, an account given by the seller to the
            buyer of the several articles purchased, with the price of
            each.
  
      {Bill of particulars} (Law), a detailed statement of the
            items of a plaintiff's demand in an action, or of the
            defendant's set-off.
  
      {Bill of rights}, a summary of rights and privileges claimed
            by a people. Such was the declaration presented by the
            Lords and Commons of England to the Prince and Princess of
            Orange in 1688, and enacted in Parliament after they
            became king and queen. In America, a bill or declaration
            of rights is prefixed to most of the constitutions of the
            several States.
  
      {Bill of sale}, a formal instrument for the conveyance or
            transfer of goods and chattels.
  
      {Bill of sight}, a form of entry at the customhouse, by which
            goods, respecting which the importer is not possessed of
            full information, may be provisionally landed for
            examination.
  
      {Bill of store}, a license granted at the customhouse to
            merchants, to carry such stores and provisions as are
            necessary for a voyage, custom free. --Wharton.
  
      {Bills payable} (pl.), the outstanding unpaid notes or
            acceptances made and issued by an individual or firm.
  
      {Bills receivable} (pl.), the unpaid promissory notes or
            acceptances held by an individual or firm. --McElrath.
  
      {A true bill}, a bill of indictment sanctioned by a grand
            jury.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Blow valve \Blow" valve`\ (Mach.)
      See {Snifting valve}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Blowball \Blow"ball`\, n.
      The downy seed head of a dandelion, which children delight to
      blow away. --B. Jonson.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Blowfly \Blow"fly`\, n. (Zo[94]l.)
      Any species of fly of the genus {Musca} that deposits its
      eggs or young larv[91] (called flyblows and maggots) upon
      meat or other animal products.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   , but contains in adition a large number of crystalline bodies,
   such as creatin, xanthin, hypoxanthin, carnin, etc. It is also
   rich in phosphate of potash.
  
      2. Animal food, in distinction from vegetable; meat;
            especially, the body of beasts and birds used as food, as
            distinguished from fish.
  
                     With roasted flesh, or milk, and wastel bread.
                                                                              --Chaucer.
  
      3. The human body, as distinguished from the soul; the
            corporeal person.
  
                     As if this flesh, which walls about our life, Were
                     brass impregnable.                              --Shak.
  
      4. The human eace; mankind; humanity.
  
                     All flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
                                                                              --Gen. vi. 12.
  
      5. Human nature:
            (a) In a good sense, tenderness of feeling; gentleness.
  
                           There is no flesh in man's obdurate heart.
                                                                              --Cowper.
            (b) In a bad sense, tendency to transient or physical
                  pleasure; desire for sensual gratification; carnality.
            (c) (Theol.) The character under the influence of animal
                  propensities or selfish passions; the soul unmoved by
                  spiritual influences.
  
      6. Kindred; stock; race.
  
                     He is our brother and our flesh.         --Gen. xxxvii.
                                                                              27.
  
      7. The soft, pulpy substance of fruit; also, that part of a
            root, fruit, and the like, which is fit to be eaten.
  
      Note: Flesh is often used adjectively or self-explaining
               compounds; as, flesh broth or flesh-broth; flesh brush
               or fleshbrush; flesh tint or flesh-tint; flesh wound.
  
      {After the flesh}, after the manner of man; in a gross or
            earthly manner. [bd]Ye judge after the flesh.[b8] --John
            viii. 15.
  
      {An arm of flesh}, human strength or aid.
  
      {Flesh and blood}. See under {Blood}.
  
      {Flesh broth}, broth made by boiling flesh in water.
  
      {Flesh fly} (Zo[94]l.), one of several species of flies whose
            larv[91] or maggots feed upon flesh, as the bluebottle
            fly; -- called also {meat fly}, {carrion fly}, and
            {blowfly}. See {Blowly}.
  
      {Flesh meat}, animal food. --Swift.
  
      {Flesh side}, the side of a skin or hide which was next to
            the flesh; -- opposed to grain side.
  
      {Flesh tint} (Painting), a color used in painting to imitate
            the hue of the living body.
  
      {Flesh worm} (Zo[94]l.), any insect larva of a flesh fly. See
            {Flesh fly} (above).
  
      {Proud flesh}. See under {Proud}.
  
      {To be one flesh}, to be closely united as in marriage; to
            become as one person. --Gen. ii. 24.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Blowfly \Blow"fly`\, n. (Zo[94]l.)
      Any species of fly of the genus {Musca} that deposits its
      eggs or young larv[91] (called flyblows and maggots) upon
      meat or other animal products.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   , but contains in adition a large number of crystalline bodies,
   such as creatin, xanthin, hypoxanthin, carnin, etc. It is also
   rich in phosphate of potash.
  
      2. Animal food, in distinction from vegetable; meat;
            especially, the body of beasts and birds used as food, as
            distinguished from fish.
  
                     With roasted flesh, or milk, and wastel bread.
                                                                              --Chaucer.
  
      3. The human body, as distinguished from the soul; the
            corporeal person.
  
                     As if this flesh, which walls about our life, Were
                     brass impregnable.                              --Shak.
  
      4. The human eace; mankind; humanity.
  
                     All flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
                                                                              --Gen. vi. 12.
  
      5. Human nature:
            (a) In a good sense, tenderness of feeling; gentleness.
  
                           There is no flesh in man's obdurate heart.
                                                                              --Cowper.
            (b) In a bad sense, tendency to transient or physical
                  pleasure; desire for sensual gratification; carnality.
            (c) (Theol.) The character under the influence of animal
                  propensities or selfish passions; the soul unmoved by
                  spiritual influences.
  
      6. Kindred; stock; race.
  
                     He is our brother and our flesh.         --Gen. xxxvii.
                                                                              27.
  
      7. The soft, pulpy substance of fruit; also, that part of a
            root, fruit, and the like, which is fit to be eaten.
  
      Note: Flesh is often used adjectively or self-explaining
               compounds; as, flesh broth or flesh-broth; flesh brush
               or fleshbrush; flesh tint or flesh-tint; flesh wound.
  
      {After the flesh}, after the manner of man; in a gross or
            earthly manner. [bd]Ye judge after the flesh.[b8] --John
            viii. 15.
  
      {An arm of flesh}, human strength or aid.
  
      {Flesh and blood}. See under {Blood}.
  
      {Flesh broth}, broth made by boiling flesh in water.
  
      {Flesh fly} (Zo[94]l.), one of several species of flies whose
            larv[91] or maggots feed upon flesh, as the bluebottle
            fly; -- called also {meat fly}, {carrion fly}, and
            {blowfly}. See {Blowly}.
  
      {Flesh meat}, animal food. --Swift.
  
      {Flesh side}, the side of a skin or hide which was next to
            the flesh; -- opposed to grain side.
  
      {Flesh tint} (Painting), a color used in painting to imitate
            the hue of the living body.
  
      {Flesh worm} (Zo[94]l.), any insect larva of a flesh fly. See
            {Flesh fly} (above).
  
      {Proud flesh}. See under {Proud}.
  
      {To be one flesh}, to be closely united as in marriage; to
            become as one person. --Gen. ii. 24.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Blue \Blue\, a. [Compar. {Bluer}; superl. {Bluest}.] [OE. bla,
      blo, blew, blue, Sw. bl[?], D. blauw, OHG. bl[?]o, G. blau;
      but influenced in form by F. bleu, from OHG. bl[be]o.]
      1. Having the color of the clear sky, or a hue resembling it,
            whether lighter or darker; as, the deep, blue sea; as blue
            as a sapphire; blue violets. [bd]The blue firmament.[b8]
            --Milton.
  
      2. Pale, without redness or glare, -- said of a flame; hence,
            of the color of burning brimstone, betokening the presence
            of ghosts or devils; as, the candle burns blue; the air
            was blue with oaths.
  
      3. Low in spirits; melancholy; as, to feel blue.
  
      4. Suited to produce low spirits; gloomy in prospect; as,
            thongs looked blue. [Colloq.]
  
      5. Severe or over strict in morals; gloom; as, blue and sour
            religionists; suiting one who is over strict in morals;
            inculcating an impracticable, severe, or gloomy mortality;
            as, blue laws.
  
      6. Literary; -- applied to women; -- an abbreviation of
            bluestocking. [Colloq.]
  
                     The ladies were very blue and well informed.
                                                                              --Thackeray.
  
      {Blue asbestus}. See {Crocidolite}.
  
      {Blue black}, of, or having, a very dark blue color, almost
            black.
  
      {Blue blood}. See under {Blood}.
  
      {Blue buck} (Zo[94]l.), a small South African antelope
            ({Cephalophus pygm[91]us}); also applied to a larger
            species ({[92]goceras leucoph[91]u}s); the blaubok.
  
      {Blue cod} (Zo[94]l.), the buffalo cod.
  
      {Blue crab} (Zo[94]l.), the common edible crab of the
            Atlantic coast of the United States ({Callinectes
            hastatus}).
  
      {Blue curls} (Bot.), a common plant ({Trichostema
            dichotomum}), resembling pennyroyal, and hence called also
            {bastard pennyroyal}.
  
      {Blue devils}, apparitions supposed to be seen by persons
            suffering with {delirium tremens}; hence, very low
            spirits. [bd]Can Gumbo shut the hall door upon blue
            devils, or lay them all in a red sea of claret?[b8]
            --Thackeray.
  
      {Blue gage}. See under {Gage}, a plum.
  
      {Blue gum}, an Australian myrtaceous tree ({Eucalyptus
            globulus}), of the loftiest proportions, now cultivated in
            tropical and warm temperate regions for its timber, and as
            a protection against malaria. The essential oil is
            beginning to be used in medicine. The timber is very
            useful. See {Eucalyptus}.
  
      {Blue jack}, {Blue stone}, blue vitriol; sulphate of copper.
           
  
      {Blue jacket}, a man-of war's man; a sailor wearing a naval
            uniform.
  
      {Blue jaundice}. See under {Jaundice}.
  
      {Blue laws}, a name first used in the eighteenth century to
            describe certain supposititious laws of extreme rigor
            reported to have been enacted in New Haven; hence, any
            puritanical laws. [U. S.]
  
      {Blue light}, a composition which burns with a brilliant blue
            flame; -- used in pyrotechnics and as a night signal at
            sea, and in military operations.
  
      {Blue mantle} (Her.), one of the four pursuivants of the
            English college of arms; -- so called from the color of
            his official robes.
  
      {Blue mass}, a preparation of mercury from which is formed
            the blue pill. --McElrath.
  
      {Blue mold}, or mould, the blue fungus ({Aspergillus
            glaucus}) which grows on cheese. --Brande & C.
  
      {Blue Monday}, a Monday following a Sunday of dissipation, or
            itself given to dissipation (as the Monday before Lent).
           
  
      {Blue ointment} (Med.), mercurial ointment.
  
      {Blue Peter} (British Marine), a blue flag with a white
            square in the center, used as a signal for sailing, to
            recall boats, etc. It is a corruption of blue repeater,
            one of the British signal flags.
  
      {Blue pill}. (Med.)
            (a) A pill of prepared mercury, used as an aperient, etc.
            (b) Blue mass.
  
      {Blue ribbon}.
            (a) The ribbon worn by members of the order of the Garter;
                  -- hence, a member of that order.
            (b) Anything the attainment of which is an object of great
                  ambition; a distinction; a prize. [bd]These
                  [scholarships] were the --blue ribbon of the
                  college.[b8] --Farrar.
            (c) The distinctive badge of certain temperance or total
                  abstinence organizations, as of the --Blue ribbon
                  Army.
  
      {Blue ruin}, utter ruin; also, gin. [Eng. Slang] --Carlyle.
  
      {Blue spar} (Min.), azure spar; lazulite. See {Lazulite}.
  
      {Blue thrush} (Zo[94]l.), a European and Asiatic thrush
            ({Petrocossyphus cyaneas}).
  
      {Blue verditer}. See {Verditer}.
  
      {Blue vitriol} (Chem.), sulphate of copper, a violet blue
            crystallized salt, used in electric batteries, calico
            printing, etc.
  
      {Blue water}, the open ocean.
  
      {To look blue}, to look disheartened or dejected.
  
      {True blue}, genuine and thorough; not modified, nor mixed;
            not spurious; specifically, of uncompromising
            Presbyterianism, blue being the color adopted by the
            Covenanters.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Black \Black\, n.
      1. That which is destitute of light or whiteness; the darkest
            color, or rather a destitution of all color; as, a cloth
            has a good black.
  
                     Black is the badge of hell, The hue of dungeons, and
                     the suit of night.                              --Shak.
  
      2. A black pigment or dye.
  
      3. A negro; a person whose skin is of a black color, or
            shaded with black; esp. a member or descendant of certain
            African races.
  
      4. A black garment or dress; as, she wears black; pl. (Obs.)
            Mourning garments of a black color; funereal drapery.
  
                     Friends weeping, and blacks, and obsequies, and the
                     like show death terrible.                  --Bacon.
  
                     That was the full time they used to wear blacks for
                     the death of their fathers.               --Sir T.
                                                                              North.
  
      5. The part of a thing which is distinguished from the rest
            by being black.
  
                     The black or sight of the eye.            --Sir K.
                                                                              Digby.
  
      6. A stain; a spot; a smooch.
  
                     Defiling her white lawn of chastity with ugly blacks
                     of lust.                                             --Rowley.
  
      {Black and white}, writing or print; as, I must have that
            statement in black and white.
  
      {Blue black}, a pigment of a blue black color.
  
      {Ivory black}, a fine kind of animal charcoal prepared by
            calcining ivory or bones. When ground it is the chief
            ingredient of the ink used in copperplate printing.
  
      {Berlin black}. See under {Berlin}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Blue \Blue\, a. [Compar. {Bluer}; superl. {Bluest}.] [OE. bla,
      blo, blew, blue, Sw. bl[?], D. blauw, OHG. bl[?]o, G. blau;
      but influenced in form by F. bleu, from OHG. bl[be]o.]
      1. Having the color of the clear sky, or a hue resembling it,
            whether lighter or darker; as, the deep, blue sea; as blue
            as a sapphire; blue violets. [bd]The blue firmament.[b8]
            --Milton.
  
      2. Pale, without redness or glare, -- said of a flame; hence,
            of the color of burning brimstone, betokening the presence
            of ghosts or devils; as, the candle burns blue; the air
            was blue with oaths.
  
      3. Low in spirits; melancholy; as, to feel blue.
  
      4. Suited to produce low spirits; gloomy in prospect; as,
            thongs looked blue. [Colloq.]
  
      5. Severe or over strict in morals; gloom; as, blue and sour
            religionists; suiting one who is over strict in morals;
            inculcating an impracticable, severe, or gloomy mortality;
            as, blue laws.
  
      6. Literary; -- applied to women; -- an abbreviation of
            bluestocking. [Colloq.]
  
                     The ladies were very blue and well informed.
                                                                              --Thackeray.
  
      {Blue asbestus}. See {Crocidolite}.
  
      {Blue black}, of, or having, a very dark blue color, almost
            black.
  
      {Blue blood}. See under {Blood}.
  
      {Blue buck} (Zo[94]l.), a small South African antelope
            ({Cephalophus pygm[91]us}); also applied to a larger
            species ({[92]goceras leucoph[91]u}s); the blaubok.
  
      {Blue cod} (Zo[94]l.), the buffalo cod.
  
      {Blue crab} (Zo[94]l.), the common edible crab of the
            Atlantic coast of the United States ({Callinectes
            hastatus}).
  
      {Blue curls} (Bot.), a common plant ({Trichostema
            dichotomum}), resembling pennyroyal, and hence called also
            {bastard pennyroyal}.
  
      {Blue devils}, apparitions supposed to be seen by persons
            suffering with {delirium tremens}; hence, very low
            spirits. [bd]Can Gumbo shut the hall door upon blue
            devils, or lay them all in a red sea of claret?[b8]
            --Thackeray.
  
      {Blue gage}. See under {Gage}, a plum.
  
      {Blue gum}, an Australian myrtaceous tree ({Eucalyptus
            globulus}), of the loftiest proportions, now cultivated in
            tropical and warm temperate regions for its timber, and as
            a protection against malaria. The essential oil is
            beginning to be used in medicine. The timber is very
            useful. See {Eucalyptus}.
  
      {Blue jack}, {Blue stone}, blue vitriol; sulphate of copper.
           
  
      {Blue jacket}, a man-of war's man; a sailor wearing a naval
            uniform.
  
      {Blue jaundice}. See under {Jaundice}.
  
      {Blue laws}, a name first used in the eighteenth century to
            describe certain supposititious laws of extreme rigor
            reported to have been enacted in New Haven; hence, any
            puritanical laws. [U. S.]
  
      {Blue light}, a composition which burns with a brilliant blue
            flame; -- used in pyrotechnics and as a night signal at
            sea, and in military operations.
  
      {Blue mantle} (Her.), one of the four pursuivants of the
            English college of arms; -- so called from the color of
            his official robes.
  
      {Blue mass}, a preparation of mercury from which is formed
            the blue pill. --McElrath.
  
      {Blue mold}, or mould, the blue fungus ({Aspergillus
            glaucus}) which grows on cheese. --Brande & C.
  
      {Blue Monday}, a Monday following a Sunday of dissipation, or
            itself given to dissipation (as the Monday before Lent).
           
  
      {Blue ointment} (Med.), mercurial ointment.
  
      {Blue Peter} (British Marine), a blue flag with a white
            square in the center, used as a signal for sailing, to
            recall boats, etc. It is a corruption of blue repeater,
            one of the British signal flags.
  
      {Blue pill}. (Med.)
            (a) A pill of prepared mercury, used as an aperient, etc.
            (b) Blue mass.
  
      {Blue ribbon}.
            (a) The ribbon worn by members of the order of the Garter;
                  -- hence, a member of that order.
            (b) Anything the attainment of which is an object of great
                  ambition; a distinction; a prize. [bd]These
                  [scholarships] were the --blue ribbon of the
                  college.[b8] --Farrar.
            (c) The distinctive badge of certain temperance or total
                  abstinence organizations, as of the --Blue ribbon
                  Army.
  
      {Blue ruin}, utter ruin; also, gin. [Eng. Slang] --Carlyle.
  
      {Blue spar} (Min.), azure spar; lazulite. See {Lazulite}.
  
      {Blue thrush} (Zo[94]l.), a European and Asiatic thrush
            ({Petrocossyphus cyaneas}).
  
      {Blue verditer}. See {Verditer}.
  
      {Blue vitriol} (Chem.), sulphate of copper, a violet blue
            crystallized salt, used in electric batteries, calico
            printing, etc.
  
      {Blue water}, the open ocean.
  
      {To look blue}, to look disheartened or dejected.
  
      {True blue}, genuine and thorough; not modified, nor mixed;
            not spurious; specifically, of uncompromising
            Presbyterianism, blue being the color adopted by the
            Covenanters.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Blood \Blood\, n. [OE. blod, blood, AS. bl[?]d; akin to D.
      bloed, OHG. bluot, G. blut, Goth, bl[?][?], Sw. & Dan. blod;
      prob. fr. the same root as E. blow to bloom. See {Blow} to
      bloom.]
      1. The fluid which circulates in the principal vascular
            system of animals, carrying nourishment to all parts of
            the body, and bringing away waste products to be excreted.
            See under {Arterial}.
  
      Note: The blood consists of a liquid, the plasma, containing
               minute particles, the blood corpuscles. In the
               invertebrate animals it is usually nearly colorless,
               and contains only one kind of corpuscles; but in all
               vertebrates, except Amphioxus, it contains some
               colorless corpuscles, with many more which are red and
               give the blood its uniformly red color. See
               {Corpuscle}, {Plasma}.
  
      2. Relationship by descent from a common ancestor;
            consanguinity; kinship.
  
                     To share the blood of Saxon royalty.   --Sir W.
                                                                              Scott.
  
                     A friend of our own blood.                  --Waller.
  
      {Half blood} (Law), relationship through only one parent.
  
      {Whole blood}, relationship through both father and mother.
            In American Law, blood includes both half blood, and whole
            blood. --Bouvier. --Peters.
  
      3. Descent; lineage; especially, honorable birth; the highest
            royal lineage.
  
                     Give us a prince of blood, a son of Priam. --Shak.
  
                     I am a gentleman of blood and breeding. --Shak.
  
      4. (Stock Breeding) Descent from parents of recognized breed;
            excellence or purity of breed.
  
      Note: In stock breeding half blood is descent showing one
               half only of pure breed. Blue blood, full blood, or
               warm blood, is the same as blood.
  
      5. The fleshy nature of man.
  
                     Nor gives it satisfaction to our blood. --Shak.
  
      6. The shedding of blood; the taking of life, murder;
            manslaughter; destruction.
  
                     So wills the fierce, avenging sprite, Till blood for
                     blood atones.                                    --Hood.
  
      7. A bloodthirsty or murderous disposition. [R.]
  
                     He was a thing of blood, whose every motion Was
                     timed with dying cries.                     --Shak.
  
      8. Temper of mind; disposition; state of the passions; -- as
            if the blood were the seat of emotions.
  
                     When you perceive his blood inclined to mirth.
                                                                              --Shak.
  
      Note: Often, in this sense, accompanied with bad, cold, warm,
               or other qualifying word. Thus, to commit an act in
               cold blood, is to do it deliberately, and without
               sudden passion; to do it in bad blood, is to do it in
               anger. Warm blood denotes a temper inflamed or
               irritated. To warm or heat the blood is to excite the
               passions. Qualified by up, excited feeling or passion
               is signified; as, my blood was up.
  
      9. A man of fire or spirit; a fiery spark; a gay, showy man;
            a rake.
  
                     Seest thou not . . . how giddily 'a turns about all
                     the hot bloods between fourteen and five and thirty?
                                                                              --Shak.
  
                     It was the morning costume of a dandy or blood.
                                                                              --Thackeray.
  
      10. The juice of anything, especially if red.
  
                     He washed . . . his clothes in the blood of grapes.
                                                                              --Gen. xiix.
                                                                              11.
  
      Note: Blood is often used as an adjective, and as the first
               part of self-explaining compound words; as,
               blood-bespotted, blood-bought, blood-curdling,
               blood-dyed, blood-red, blood-spilling, blood-stained,
               blood-warm, blood-won.
  
      {Blood baptism} (Eccl. Hist.), the martyrdom of those who had
            not been baptized. They were considered as baptized in
            blood, and this was regarded as a full substitute for
            literal baptism.
  
      {Blood blister}, a blister or bleb containing blood or bloody
            serum, usually caused by an injury.
  
      {Blood brother}, brother by blood or birth.
  
      {Blood clam} (Zo[94]l.), a bivalve mollusk of the genus Arca
            and allied genera, esp. {Argina pexata} of the American
            coast. So named from the color of its flesh.
  
      {Blood corpuscle}. See {Corpuscle}.
  
      {Blood crystal} (Physiol.), one of the crystals formed by the
            separation in a crystalline form of the h[91]moglobin of
            the red blood corpuscles; h[91]matocrystallin. All blood
            does not yield blood crystals.
  
      {Blood heat}, heat equal to the temperature of human blood,
            or about 98[ab] [deg] Fahr.
  
      {Blood horse}, a horse whose blood or lineage is derived from
            the purest and most highly prized origin or stock.
  
      {Blood money}. See in the Vocabulary.
  
      {Blood orange}, an orange with dark red pulp.
  
      {Blood poisoning} (Med.), a morbid state of the blood caused
            by the introduction of poisonous or infective matters from
            without, or the absorption or retention of such as are
            produced in the body itself; tox[91]mia.
  
      {Blood pudding}, a pudding made of blood and other materials.
           
  
      {Blood relation}, one connected by blood or descent.
  
      {Blood spavin}. See under {Spavin}.
  
      {Blood vessel}. See in the Vocabulary.
  
      {Blue blood}, the blood of noble or aristocratic families,
            which, according to a Spanish prover, has in it a tinge of
            blue; -- hence, a member of an old and aristocratic
            family.
  
      {Flesh and blood}.
            (a) A blood relation, esp. a child.
            (b) Human nature.
  
      {In blood} (Hunting), in a state of perfect health and vigor.
            --Shak.
  
      {To let blood}. See under {Let}.
  
      {Prince of the blood}, the son of a sovereign, or the issue
            of a royal family. The sons, brothers, and uncles of the
            sovereign are styled princes of the blood royal; and the
            daughters, sisters, and aunts are princesses of the blood
            royal.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Blue \Blue\, a. [Compar. {Bluer}; superl. {Bluest}.] [OE. bla,
      blo, blew, blue, Sw. bl[?], D. blauw, OHG. bl[?]o, G. blau;
      but influenced in form by F. bleu, from OHG. bl[be]o.]
      1. Having the color of the clear sky, or a hue resembling it,
            whether lighter or darker; as, the deep, blue sea; as blue
            as a sapphire; blue violets. [bd]The blue firmament.[b8]
            --Milton.
  
      2. Pale, without redness or glare, -- said of a flame; hence,
            of the color of burning brimstone, betokening the presence
            of ghosts or devils; as, the candle burns blue; the air
            was blue with oaths.
  
      3. Low in spirits; melancholy; as, to feel blue.
  
      4. Suited to produce low spirits; gloomy in prospect; as,
            thongs looked blue. [Colloq.]
  
      5. Severe or over strict in morals; gloom; as, blue and sour
            religionists; suiting one who is over strict in morals;
            inculcating an impracticable, severe, or gloomy mortality;
            as, blue laws.
  
      6. Literary; -- applied to women; -- an abbreviation of
            bluestocking. [Colloq.]
  
                     The ladies were very blue and well informed.
                                                                              --Thackeray.
  
      {Blue asbestus}. See {Crocidolite}.
  
      {Blue black}, of, or having, a very dark blue color, almost
            black.
  
      {Blue blood}. See under {Blood}.
  
      {Blue buck} (Zo[94]l.), a small South African antelope
            ({Cephalophus pygm[91]us}); also applied to a larger
            species ({[92]goceras leucoph[91]u}s); the blaubok.
  
      {Blue cod} (Zo[94]l.), the buffalo cod.
  
      {Blue crab} (Zo[94]l.), the common edible crab of the
            Atlantic coast of the United States ({Callinectes
            hastatus}).
  
      {Blue curls} (Bot.), a common plant ({Trichostema
            dichotomum}), resembling pennyroyal, and hence called also
            {bastard pennyroyal}.
  
      {Blue devils}, apparitions supposed to be seen by persons
            suffering with {delirium tremens}; hence, very low
            spirits. [bd]Can Gumbo shut the hall door upon blue
            devils, or lay them all in a red sea of claret?[b8]
            --Thackeray.
  
      {Blue gage}. See under {Gage}, a plum.
  
      {Blue gum}, an Australian myrtaceous tree ({Eucalyptus
            globulus}), of the loftiest proportions, now cultivated in
            tropical and warm temperate regions for its timber, and as
            a protection against malaria. The essential oil is
            beginning to be used in medicine. The timber is very
            useful. See {Eucalyptus}.
  
      {Blue jack}, {Blue stone}, blue vitriol; sulphate of copper.
           
  
      {Blue jacket}, a man-of war's man; a sailor wearing a naval
            uniform.
  
      {Blue jaundice}. See under {Jaundice}.
  
      {Blue laws}, a name first used in the eighteenth century to
            describe certain supposititious laws of extreme rigor
            reported to have been enacted in New Haven; hence, any
            puritanical laws. [U. S.]
  
      {Blue light}, a composition which burns with a brilliant blue
            flame; -- used in pyrotechnics and as a night signal at
            sea, and in military operations.
  
      {Blue mantle} (Her.), one of the four pursuivants of the
            English college of arms; -- so called from the color of
            his official robes.
  
      {Blue mass}, a preparation of mercury from which is formed
            the blue pill. --McElrath.
  
      {Blue mold}, or mould, the blue fungus ({Aspergillus
            glaucus}) which grows on cheese. --Brande & C.
  
      {Blue Monday}, a Monday following a Sunday of dissipation, or
            itself given to dissipation (as the Monday before Lent).
           
  
      {Blue ointment} (Med.), mercurial ointment.
  
      {Blue Peter} (British Marine), a blue flag with a white
            square in the center, used as a signal for sailing, to
            recall boats, etc. It is a corruption of blue repeater,
            one of the British signal flags.
  
      {Blue pill}. (Med.)
            (a) A pill of prepared mercury, used as an aperient, etc.
            (b) Blue mass.
  
      {Blue ribbon}.
            (a) The ribbon worn by members of the order of the Garter;
                  -- hence, a member of that order.
            (b) Anything the attainment of which is an object of great
                  ambition; a distinction; a prize. [bd]These
                  [scholarships] were the --blue ribbon of the
                  college.[b8] --Farrar.
            (c) The distinctive badge of certain temperance or total
                  abstinence organizations, as of the --Blue ribbon
                  Army.
  
      {Blue ruin}, utter ruin; also, gin. [Eng. Slang] --Carlyle.
  
      {Blue spar} (Min.), azure spar; lazulite. See {Lazulite}.
  
      {Blue thrush} (Zo[94]l.), a European and Asiatic thrush
            ({Petrocossyphus cyaneas}).
  
      {Blue verditer}. See {Verditer}.
  
      {Blue vitriol} (Chem.), sulphate of copper, a violet blue
            crystallized salt, used in electric batteries, calico
            printing, etc.
  
      {Blue water}, the open ocean.
  
      {To look blue}, to look disheartened or dejected.
  
      {True blue}, genuine and thorough; not modified, nor mixed;
            not spurious; specifically, of uncompromising
            Presbyterianism, blue being the color adopted by the
            Covenanters.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Bluebell \Blue"bell`\, n. (Bot.)
      (a) A plant of the genus {Campanula}, especially the
            {Campanula rotundifolia}, which bears blue bell-shaped
            flowers; the harebell.
      (b) A plant of the genus {Scilla} ({Scilla nutans}).

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Harebell \Hare"bell`\, n. (Bot.)
      A small, slender, branching plant ({Campanula rotundifolia}),
      having blue bell-shaped flowers; also, {Scilla nutans}, which
      has similar flowers; -- called also {bluebell}. [Written also
      {hairbell}.]
  
               E'en the light harebell raised its head. --Sir W. Scott
                                                                              .

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Bluebell \Blue"bell`\, n. (Bot.)
      (a) A plant of the genus {Campanula}, especially the
            {Campanula rotundifolia}, which bears blue bell-shaped
            flowers; the harebell.
      (b) A plant of the genus {Scilla} ({Scilla nutans}).

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Harebell \Hare"bell`\, n. (Bot.)
      A small, slender, branching plant ({Campanula rotundifolia}),
      having blue bell-shaped flowers; also, {Scilla nutans}, which
      has similar flowers; -- called also {bluebell}. [Written also
      {hairbell}.]
  
               E'en the light harebell raised its head. --Sir W. Scott
                                                                              .

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Warrin \War"rin\, n. [From a native name.] (Zo[94]l.)
      An Australian lorikeet ({Trichoglossus multicolor})
      remarkable for the variety and brilliancy of its colors; --
      called also {blue-bellied lorikeet}, and {blue-bellied
      parrot}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Warrin \War"rin\, n. [From a native name.] (Zo[94]l.)
      An Australian lorikeet ({Trichoglossus multicolor})
      remarkable for the variety and brilliancy of its colors; --
      called also {blue-bellied lorikeet}, and {blue-bellied
      parrot}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
  
  
      2. (Zo[94]l.) A scaup duck. See below.
  
      {Scaup duck} (Zo[94]l.), any one of several species of
            northern ducks of the genus {Aythya}, or {Fuligula}. The
            adult males are, in large part, black. The three North
            American species are: the greater scaup duck ({Aythya
            marila}, var. nearctica), called also {broadbill},
            {bluebill}, {blackhead}, {flock duck}, {flocking fowl},
            and {raft duck}; the lesser scaup duck ({A. affinis}),
            called also {little bluebill}, {river broadbill}, and
            {shuffler}; the tufted, or ring-necked, scaup duck ({A.
            collaris}), called also {black jack}, {ringneck},
            {ringbill}, {ringbill shuffler}, etc. See Illust.. of
            {Ring-necked duck}, under {Ring-necked}. The common
            European scaup, or mussel, duck ({A. marila}), closely
            resembles the American variety.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Bluebill \Blue"bill`\, n. (Zo[94]l.)
      A duck of the genus {Fuligula}. Two American species ({F.
      marila} and {F. affinis}) are common. See {Scaup duck}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Broadbill \Broad"bill`\, n.
      1. (Zo[94]l.) A wild duck ({Aythya, [or] Fuligula, marila)},
            which appears in large numbers on the eastern coast of the
            United States, in autumn; -- called also {bluebill},
            {blackhead}, {raft duck}, and {scaup duck}. See {Scaup
            duck}.
  
      2. (Zo[94]l.) The shoveler. See {Shoveler}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
  
  
      2. (Zo[94]l.) A scaup duck. See below.
  
      {Scaup duck} (Zo[94]l.), any one of several species of
            northern ducks of the genus {Aythya}, or {Fuligula}. The
            adult males are, in large part, black. The three North
            American species are: the greater scaup duck ({Aythya
            marila}, var. nearctica), called also {broadbill},
            {bluebill}, {blackhead}, {flock duck}, {flocking fowl},
            and {raft duck}; the lesser scaup duck ({A. affinis}),
            called also {little bluebill}, {river broadbill}, and
            {shuffler}; the tufted, or ring-necked, scaup duck ({A.
            collaris}), called also {black jack}, {ringneck},
            {ringbill}, {ringbill shuffler}, etc. See Illust.. of
            {Ring-necked duck}, under {Ring-necked}. The common
            European scaup, or mussel, duck ({A. marila}), closely
            resembles the American variety.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Bluebill \Blue"bill`\, n. (Zo[94]l.)
      A duck of the genus {Fuligula}. Two American species ({F.
      marila} and {F. affinis}) are common. See {Scaup duck}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Broadbill \Broad"bill`\, n.
      1. (Zo[94]l.) A wild duck ({Aythya, [or] Fuligula, marila)},
            which appears in large numbers on the eastern coast of the
            United States, in autumn; -- called also {bluebill},
            {blackhead}, {raft duck}, and {scaup duck}. See {Scaup
            duck}.
  
      2. (Zo[94]l.) The shoveler. See {Shoveler}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
  
  
      2. (Zo[94]l.) A scaup duck. See below.
  
      {Scaup duck} (Zo[94]l.), any one of several species of
            northern ducks of the genus {Aythya}, or {Fuligula}. The
            adult males are, in large part, black. The three North
            American species are: the greater scaup duck ({Aythya
            marila}, var. nearctica), called also {broadbill},
            {bluebill}, {blackhead}, {flock duck}, {flocking fowl},
            and {raft duck}; the lesser scaup duck ({A. affinis}),
            called also {little bluebill}, {river broadbill}, and
            {shuffler}; the tufted, or ring-necked, scaup duck ({A.
            collaris}), called also {black jack}, {ringneck},
            {ringbill}, {ringbill shuffler}, etc. See Illust.. of
            {Ring-necked duck}, under {Ring-necked}. The common
            European scaup, or mussel, duck ({A. marila}), closely
            resembles the American variety.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Bluebill \Blue"bill`\, n. (Zo[94]l.)
      A duck of the genus {Fuligula}. Two American species ({F.
      marila} and {F. affinis}) are common. See {Scaup duck}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Broadbill \Broad"bill`\, n.
      1. (Zo[94]l.) A wild duck ({Aythya, [or] Fuligula, marila)},
            which appears in large numbers on the eastern coast of the
            United States, in autumn; -- called also {bluebill},
            {blackhead}, {raft duck}, and {scaup duck}. See {Scaup
            duck}.
  
      2. (Zo[94]l.) The shoveler. See {Shoveler}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Bluepoll \Blue"poll`\, n. [Blue + poll head.] (Zo[94]l.)
      A kind of salmon ({Salmo Cambricus}) found in Wales.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Buhlbuhl \Buhl"buhl\, n. (Zo[94]l.)
      See {Bulbul}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   d8Bulbul \[d8]Bul"bul\, n. [Per.] (Zo[94]l.)
      The Persian nightingale ({Pycnonotus jocosus}). The name is
      also applied to several other Asiatic singing birds, of the
      family {Timaliid[91]}. The green bulbuls belong to the
      {Chloropsis} and allied genera. [Written also {buhlbuhl}.]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Buhlbuhl \Buhl"buhl\, n. (Zo[94]l.)
      See {Bulbul}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   d8Bulbul \[d8]Bul"bul\, n. [Per.] (Zo[94]l.)
      The Persian nightingale ({Pycnonotus jocosus}). The name is
      also applied to several other Asiatic singing birds, of the
      family {Timaliid[91]}. The green bulbuls belong to the
      {Chloropsis} and allied genera. [Written also {buhlbuhl}.]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Bulbel \Bulb"el\, n. [Dim., fr. bulb, n.] (Bot.)
      A separable bulb formed on some flowering plants.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Bulbil \Bulb"il\, n. [Dim. fr. bulb.]
      1. (Bot.) A small or secondary bulb; hence, now almost
            exclusively: An a[89]rial bulb or deciduous bud, produced
            in the leaf axils, as in the tiger lily, or relpacing the
            flowers, as in some onions, and capable, when separated,
            of propagating the plant; -- called also {bulblet} and
            {brood bud}.
  
      2. (Anat.) A small hollow bulb, such as an enlargement in a
            small vessel or tube.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Bulbil \Bulb"il\, n. [Dim. fr. bulb.]
      1. (Bot.) A small or secondary bulb; hence, now almost
            exclusively: An a[89]rial bulb or deciduous bud, produced
            in the leaf axils, as in the tiger lily, or relpacing the
            flowers, as in some onions, and capable, when separated,
            of propagating the plant; -- called also {bulblet} and
            {brood bud}.
  
      2. (Anat.) A small hollow bulb, such as an enlargement in a
            small vessel or tube.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Bulblet \Bulb"let\, n. [Bulb,n.+ -let.] (Bot.)
      A small bulb, either produced on a larger bulb, or on some
      a[89]rial part of a plant, as in the axils of leaves in the
      tiger lily, or replacing the flowers in some kinds of onion.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Bulbil \Bulb"il\, n. [Dim. fr. bulb.]
      1. (Bot.) A small or secondary bulb; hence, now almost
            exclusively: An a[89]rial bulb or deciduous bud, produced
            in the leaf axils, as in the tiger lily, or relpacing the
            flowers, as in some onions, and capable, when separated,
            of propagating the plant; -- called also {bulblet} and
            {brood bud}.
  
      2. (Anat.) A small hollow bulb, such as an enlargement in a
            small vessel or tube.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Bulblet \Bulb"let\, n. [Bulb,n.+ -let.] (Bot.)
      A small bulb, either produced on a larger bulb, or on some
      a[89]rial part of a plant, as in the axils of leaves in the
      tiger lily, or replacing the flowers in some kinds of onion.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Bulbule \Bul"bule\, n. [L. bulbulus, dim. of bulbus. See {Bulb},
      n.]
      A small bulb; a bulblet.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Bull fly \Bull" fly`\ or Bullfly \Bull"fly`\, n. (Zo[94]l.)
      Any large fly troublesome to cattle, as the gadflies and
      breeze flies.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Bull fly \Bull" fly`\ or Bullfly \Bull"fly`\, n. (Zo[94]l.)
      Any large fly troublesome to cattle, as the gadflies and
      breeze flies.

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Baileyville, IL
      Zip code(s): 61007
   Baileyville, KS
      Zip code(s): 66404

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Ballville, OH (CDP, FIPS 3716)
      Location: 41.32767 N, 83.13732 W
      Population (1990): 3083 (1189 housing units)
      Area: 7.1 sq km (land), 0.5 sq km (water)

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Belfield, ND (city, FIPS 5820)
      Location: 46.88695 N, 103.19542 W
      Population (1990): 887 (455 housing units)
      Area: 2.3 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Bella Villa, MO (city, FIPS 4114)
      Location: 38.54345 N, 90.28618 W
      Population (1990): 708 (309 housing units)
      Area: 0.3 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Belle Plaine, IA (city, FIPS 5590)
      Location: 41.89666 N, 92.27407 W
      Population (1990): 2834 (1289 housing units)
      Area: 7.9 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 52208
   Belle Plaine, KS (city, FIPS 5500)
      Location: 37.39419 N, 97.27876 W
      Population (1990): 1649 (636 housing units)
      Area: 2.0 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 67013
   Belle Plaine, MN (city, FIPS 4834)
      Location: 44.62360 N, 93.76420 W
      Population (1990): 3149 (1146 housing units)
      Area: 10.5 sq km (land), 0.5 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 56011

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Belle Valley, OH (village, FIPS 5158)
      Location: 39.78868 N, 81.55521 W
      Population (1990): 267 (126 housing units)
      Area: 0.7 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Belleville, AR (city, FIPS 4960)
      Location: 35.09067 N, 93.44531 W
      Population (1990): 390 (182 housing units)
      Area: 4.8 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 72824
   Belleville, IL (city, FIPS 4845)
      Location: 38.52997 N, 90.00323 W
      Population (1990): 42785 (19080 housing units)
      Area: 36.2 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 62220, 62221, 62223
   Belleville, KS (city, FIPS 5600)
      Location: 39.82308 N, 97.63354 W
      Population (1990): 2517 (1260 housing units)
      Area: 4.9 sq km (land), 0.1 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 66935
   Belleville, MI (city, FIPS 7020)
      Location: 42.20340 N, 83.48229 W
      Population (1990): 3270 (1603 housing units)
      Area: 2.9 sq km (land), 0.1 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 48111
   Belleville, NJ (CDP, FIPS 4690)
      Location: 40.79487 N, 74.16272 W
      Population (1990): 34213 (14058 housing units)
      Area: 8.7 sq km (land), 0.2 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 07109
   Belleville, NY
      Zip code(s): 13611
   Belleville, PA (CDP, FIPS 5304)
      Location: 40.60283 N, 77.72568 W
      Population (1990): 1589 (596 housing units)
      Area: 5.8 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 17004
   Belleville, WI (village, FIPS 6300)
      Location: 42.86171 N, 89.53651 W
      Population (1990): 1456 (576 housing units)
      Area: 2.7 sq km (land), 0.4 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 53508
   Belleville, WV
      Zip code(s): 26133

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Bellflower, CA (city, FIPS 4982)
      Location: 33.88813 N, 118.12663 W
      Population (1990): 61815 (24117 housing units)
      Area: 15.7 sq km (land), 0.1 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 90706
   Bellflower, IL (village, FIPS 4897)
      Location: 40.34047 N, 88.52668 W
      Population (1990): 405 (167 housing units)
      Area: 0.9 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 61724
   Bellflower, MO (city, FIPS 4330)
      Location: 39.00385 N, 91.35272 W
      Population (1990): 413 (176 housing units)
      Area: 1.4 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 63333

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Bellville, GA (city, FIPS 6688)
      Location: 32.15264 N, 81.97353 W
      Population (1990): 192 (82 housing units)
      Area: 2.5 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
   Bellville, OH (village, FIPS 5284)
      Location: 40.62081 N, 82.51103 W
      Population (1990): 1568 (700 housing units)
      Area: 3.3 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 44813
   Bellville, TX (city, FIPS 7432)
      Location: 29.94642 N, 96.25867 W
      Population (1990): 3378 (1498 housing units)
      Area: 6.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 77418

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Belville, NC (town, FIPS 4950)
      Location: 34.23002 N, 77.98645 W
      Population (1990): 66 (33 housing units)
      Area: 0.6 sq km (land), 0.1 sq km (water)

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Beulaville, NC (town, FIPS 5660)
      Location: 34.92231 N, 77.77251 W
      Population (1990): 933 (453 housing units)
      Area: 3.2 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 28518

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Blauvelt, NY (CDP, FIPS 6860)
      Location: 41.06805 N, 73.95525 W
      Population (1990): 4838 (1480 housing units)
      Area: 11.8 sq km (land), 0.2 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 10913

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Bleiblerville, TX
      Zip code(s): 78931

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Blue Bell, PA (CDP, FIPS 7224)
      Location: 40.14573 N, 75.26766 W
      Population (1990): 6091 (2371 housing units)
      Area: 13.9 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Bluebell, UT
      Zip code(s): 84007

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Bluefield, VA (town, FIPS 8152)
      Location: 37.23691 N, 81.26608 W
      Population (1990): 5363 (2346 housing units)
      Area: 19.8 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 24605
   Bluefield, WV (city, FIPS 8524)
      Location: 37.26046 N, 81.21868 W
      Population (1990): 12756 (6007 housing units)
      Area: 21.8 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Bull Valley, IL (village, FIPS 9531)
      Location: 42.31138 N, 88.34991 W
      Population (1990): 574 (208 housing units)
      Area: 10.7 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
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