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Show BL felicity 3. Heavenl R grace an one, as, being begun i It is fuc BL. BIL auth. pafles into glory, bleffednefs, and immortality 4. Divine favour Bre'sser. . /. [fro tha tha blfs.] H blefles, or gives a blefling ; h - makes any thing profper When thou receiveft praife, take it indifferently and return it to God, the giver of ‘the gift, or bleffer Taylor. of the altion corn and fruit, and is fometime to men injurious even j BrLixo. n / . Woedward 1. Somethin 2. In general, to blaft; to hinder fro fertility My country neighbours do not find it impofible "to think of a lamme horfe they have; or theix blighted corn, till they have run over in their minds al beings Locke. 3. Any of the means of happinefs; a gift an advantage ; a benefit Nor are his bleffings to his banks confin'd Bu i as the fea and wind free, and common Denbar: Political jealoufy is very reafonable in perfon perfuaded of the excellency of their conftitution who believe that they derive from it the moft vaAddifon ‘luable bleffings of fociety A juft and wife magiftrate is a bleffing as extenifive as the community to which he belongs: bleffing which includes all other 4/¢/fings whatfoever that relate to this life Atterbury 4. Divine favour My pretty coufin Shakefpeare Bleffing upon you ! 1 had moft need of bleffingy and Ame Stack in my throat Shakefpeare Honour thy father and mother, both in wor and deed, that a b/gfing may come upon thee fro them Ecclus He fhal#*receive the dleffing from the Lord, Pfal 5. Th Hebrews under this name ofte ; 2. Intelletually dark; unable to judg ignorant: with 7o before that which 1s unfeen All authors #o their own defects are blind Hadft thou but, Janus like, a face behind To fee the people, what fplay mouths they make ; To mark their fingers pointed at thy back. Dryd 3. Sometimes of Blind of the future, and by rage mifled He pulls his crimes upon his people's head. Dryd 4. Unfeen ; out of the publick view ; private : generally with fome tendency t fome contempt or cenfure To grievous and fcandalous inconveniencies the make themfelves fubjec, with whom any b/iind o fecret corner is judged a fit houfe of commo prayer Hooker 5. No eafily difcernible; hard to find dark ; obfcure ; unfeen Ther b alf b/ind fire unde ftone whic flame not out but oil being poured upon them they flame out Bacon The preterite from bloaw The reft fled into a ftrong tower, where, feein no remedy, they defperately blezv up themfelves with a great part of the caftle, with gunpowder Krnolles BLEYME 7. / A inflammatio in th foot of a horfe, between the fole and th bone Farrier's Diét Bricur. 7. /. [ The etymology unknown. 1. Mildew; according to Séiuner : but i feems taken by moft writers, in a general fenfe, for any caufe of the failur of fruits I complained to the oldeft and beft gardeners wh Where elf Shall I inform.my unacquainted fee In the dl/ind Mazes of this tangled wood ofte efteeme fel int th fam misfortune it fome b/ight of the fpring an Temple 2. Any thing nipping, or blafting Whe yo com to the proof once the firf blight of froft fhall moft infallibly ftxip you of al your gloty L' Eftrange 7o BLicHT. @. 2. [from the noun. . To corrupt with mildew This vapour bears up along with it any noxiou mineral fieams; it then blafts vegetables, &/ight Milton How bave we wander'd a long difmal night And climbing from below, their fellows meet. Dryden Genefis Brew Blind 'Thamyris, and &/ind Mzonides And Terefiagy, and Phineas, prophets old. M.'l:an. Part creeping under ground, their journey b/ind Peace to thy gentle thade, and endlefs reft Pope Bleft in thy genius, in thy love too blgf So were I.equall'd with them in renown And Jacob faid, receive my prefent at my hand BLEsT, preteriteand participle. [from blefs. under forne cuftomadry words L'Efirange 2. Something to miiflead the eye, or th underftanding Thefe difcourfes fet an oppofition between hi commands and decrees; making the one a blin Sb mariners miftake the promis'd guft And, with full fails, on the b/ind rocks are loft A poftern door, yet unobferv'd and free Join'd by the length of a &/ind gallery ' To the king's clofet leds Dryden Dryden 6. Blind Veflels. [with chymifts. Suc as have no opening but on one fide 7o BLixD. @. a. [from the noun. 1. To make blind; to deprive of fight You nimble lightnings, dart your b/inding flame Into her feornful eyes Shakefpeare Of whofe hand have I received any bribe t blind mine eyes therewith? and I will reftore it 1 Samucl A blind guideis certainly a great mifchief; bu a guide that blinds thofe' whom he fhould lead, i undoubtedly a much greater Sauth 2. To darken; to obfcure to the eye So whirl the feas, fuch darknefs blinds the fky That the black nightreceives adeeperdye 3. To darken the underftanding Sfold.] To hinder from {eeing, by blinding the eyes When they had blindfolded him him on the face they ftruc Luke Bri'~xprorp. adj. [from the verb.] Having the eyes covered And oft himfelf he chanc'd to hurt unwares Led through %/ind paths by each deluding light Rofcommon thee 8 Thofe other two, equall'd with me in fate ‘underftood the prefents which friend make to one another; in all probability, becaui€ they are generally attende with blgfings and compliments both fro thofe who give, and thofe who receive Calme:r take, I pray thee, my b/effing that is brought t Hardly any thing in our conveifation is pur and genuine'; civility cafts a blind over the duty But left harfh care the lover's peace deftroy And roughly blight the tender buds of joy for the exccution of the other Decay of Picty Lyttelton. Let rea{on teach 7o BLi'npFoLp. @. a. [from blind an BLe'ssiNG. n /i [from blefi. BLIND. adj. [blind, Saxon. 1. Benedi&ion; a prayer by which hap- 1. Deprived of fight ; wanting the fenf pinefs is implored for any one of feeing ; dark 2. A declaration by which happinefs i The blind man that governs his fteps by feelpromifed in a prophetick and authori- ing, in defe@ of eyes, receives advertifement o Digby things through a ftaff tative manner The perfon that is called, knceleth down befor the chair, and the father layeth his hand upon hi head, or her head, and giveth the blefing. Bacon to hinder the fight Dryd This my long-fuffering, and my day of grace They who negleét and-fcorn thall never tafte But hard be harden'd, blind be blinded more. Milt 4. To obfcure to the underftanding The ftate of the"controverfy between us he endeavoured, with all his art, te é/ind and confound Stilling flect Whilft reafon, blent through paffion, nought defcried But, as a biindfold bull, at random fares And where he hits, nought knows, an wher he hurts, nought cares Fairy Queen Who blindfold walks upon a river's brim When he thould fee, has he deferv'd to fwim Dryden When lots are thuffled together, or a man blindfold cafts a dye, what reafon can he haye to prefume, that he fhall draw a white ftone rather tha Sowtk a black The women will look into the ftate of the natio with their own eyes, and be no longer led &/indfo/ Addifon by a male legiflature Bri'nory. adv. [from blind. 1. Without fight e. Implicitly; without examination The old kirig, after a long debate By his imperious miftrefs blindly led Has given Cyderia to Orbellan's bed Dryden How ready zeal for intereft and party, is t charge atheifm on thofe, who will not, withou examining, fubmit, and lindly fwallow their non fenfe Locke 3. Without judgment or direftion How feas, and carth, and air, and aétive flame Fell through the mighty void ; and, in their fall Were biindly gather'd in this goodly balk Diryden Bri'Npman's BUFF. # /. A play i which fome one is to have his eyes covered, and hunt out the reft of th company Difguis'd inx all the matk of night We left our champion on his fligh At blindman's buff to grope his way In equal fear of night and day Hudibras He imagines I fhut my eyes again; but furel he fancies I play at dlindman's byff with him ;5 fo he thinks I never have my eyes open. Stilling fleet Bri'npwess. a. /. [from blind. 1. Want of fight I will fmite every houfe of the people with b/ind7efs 2. Ignorance Zechariah intellectual darknefs All the reft as born of favage brood But with bafe thoughts, are into &lindnefs led And kept fiom looking on thelightfome day Spenfer Nor can we call it choice, when what we chufe Folly and dlindnefs only could refufe Denbam Whenfogver we would proceed beyond thef fimple ideas; we fall prefently into darknefs an difficultigs, and can difcover nothing farther bu ourown &/indnefs and ignorance BLr'NpNETTLE plant Bir'wpsips 20 fi [ferofuldria Locke 7. /0 [from dlind and fide. Weaknefs ; foible ; weak part He is too great a lover of himfelf; this is on of his blindfides'; the beft of men, I fear, are na without them BL'NDWORM - Savift #. /. [cecilia, from blin an Cc |