Vocabulary : Blackwater State to Bladebone

Blackwater State : Nebraska; -- a nickname alluding to the dark color of the water of its rivers, due to the presence of a black vegetable mold in the soil.
Blackwood : A name given to several dark-colored timbers. The East Indian black wood is from the tree Dalbergia latifolia.
Blackwork : Work wrought by blacksmiths; -- so called in distinction from that wrought by whitesmiths.
Bladder : A bag or sac in animals, which serves as the receptacle of some fluid; as, the urinary bladder; the gall bladder; -- applied especially to the urinary bladder, either within the animal, or when taken out and inflated with air. ;; Any vesicle or blister, especially if filled with air, or a thin, watery fluid. ;; A distended, membranaceous pericarp. ;; Anything inflated, empty, or unsound. ;; To swell out like a bladder with air; to inflate. ;; To put up in bladders; as, bladdered lard.
Bladdered : of Bladder

Bladdering : of Bladder
Bladderwort : A genus (Utricularia) of aquatic or marshy plants, which usually bear numerous vesicles in the divisions of the leaves. These serve as traps for minute animals. See Ascidium.
Bladdery : Having bladders; also, resembling a bladder.
Blade : Properly, the leaf, or flat part of the leaf, of any plant, especially of gramineous plants. The term is sometimes applied to the spire of grasses. ;; The cutting part of an instrument; as, the blade of a knife or a sword. ;; The broad part of an oar; also, one of the projecting arms of a screw propeller. ;; The scapula or shoulder blade. ;; The principal rafters of a roof. ;; 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. ;; A sharp-witted, dashing, wild, or reckless, fellow; -- a word of somewhat indefinite meaning. ;; To furnish with a blade. ;; To put forth or have a blade. ;; The flat part of the tongue immediately behind the tip, or point.
Bladebone : The scapula. See Blade, 4.

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