6. pl. (Com.) The four large shell plates on the sides, and the five large ones of the middle, of the
carapace of the sea turtle, which yield the best tortoise shell. De Colange.
7. A sharp-witted, dashing, wild, or reckless, fellow; — a word of somewhat indefinite meaning.
He saw a turnkey in a trice
Fetter a troublesome blade.
Coleridge.
Blade
(Blade) v. t. To furnish with a blade.
Blade
(Blade), v. i. To put forth or have a blade.
As sweet a plant, as fair a flower, is faded
As ever in the Muses' garden bladed.
P. Fletcher.
Bladebone
(Blade"bone`) n. The scapula. See Blade, 4.
Bladed
(Blad"ed) a.
1. Having a blade or blades; as, a two-bladed knife.
Decking with liquid pearl the bladed grass.
Shak.
2. Divested of blades; as, bladed corn.
3. (Min.) Composed of long and narrow plates, shaped like the blade of a knife.
Bladefish
(Blade"fish`) n. (Zoöl.) A long, thin, marine fish of Europe (Trichiurus lepturus); the ribbon fish.
Bladesmith
(Blade"smith`) n. A sword cutler. [Obs.]
Blady
(Blad"y) a. Consisting of blades. [R.] "Blady grass." Drayton.
Blæ
(Blæ) a. [See Blue.] Dark blue or bluish gray; lead-colored. [Scot.]
Blæberry
(Blæ"ber*ry) n. [Blæ + berry; akin to Icel blaber, Sw. blbär, D. blaabær. Cf. Blueberry.] The bilberry.
[North of Eng. & Scot.]
Blague
(||Blague) n. [F.] Mendacious boasting; falsehood; humbug.
Blain
(Blain) n. [OE. blein, bleyn, AS. blegen; akin to Dan. blegn, D. blein; perh. fr. the same root as
E. bladder. See Bladder.]
1. An inflammatory swelling or sore; a bulla, pustule, or blister.
Blotches and blains must all his flesh emboss.
Milton.
2. (Far.) A bladder growing on the root of the tongue of a horse, against the windpipe, and stopping
the breath.
Blamable
(Blam"a*ble) a. [Cf. F. blâmable.] Deserving of censure; faulty; culpable; reprehensible; censurable; blameworthy.
— Blam"a*ble*ness, n. — Blam"a*bly adv.
Blame
(Blame) v. t. [imp. & p. p. Blamed (blamd); p. pr. & vb. n. Blaming.] [OE. blamen, F. blâmer,
OF. blasmer, fr. L. blasphemare to blaspheme, LL. also to blame, fr. Gr. blasfhmei^n to speak ill, to
slander, to blaspheme, fr. bla`sfhmos evil speaking, perh, for blapsi`fhmos; bla`psis injury (fr. bla`ptein
to injure) + fh`mh a saying, fr. fa`nai to say. Cf. Blaspheme, and see Fame.]
