Vocabulary : Blickey to Blind reader

Blickey : A tin dinner pail.
Blight : To affect with blight; to blast; to prevent the growth and fertility of. ;; Hence: To destroy the happiness of; to ruin; to mar essentially; to frustrate; as, to blight one's prospects. ;; To be affected by blight; to blast; as, this vine never blights. ;; Mildew; decay; anything nipping or blasting; -- applied as a general name to various injuries or diseases of plants, causing the whole or a part to wither, whether occasioned by insects, fungi, or atmospheric influences. ;; The act of blighting, or the state of being blighted; a withering or mildewing, or a stoppage of growth in the whole or a part of a plant, etc. ;; That which frustrates one's plans or withers one's hopes; that which impairs or destroys. ;; A downy species of aphis, or plant louse, destructive to fruit trees, infesting both the roots and branches; -- also applied to several other injurious insects. ;; A rashlike eruption on the human skin.
Blighted : of Blight
Blighting : of Blight ;; Causing blight.
Blightingly : So as to cause blight.
Blimbi : Alt. of Blimbing
Blimbing : See Bilimbi, etc.
Blin : To stop; to cease; to desist. ;; Cessation; end.
Blind : Destitute of the sense of seeing, either by natural defect or by deprivation; without sight. ;; Not having the faculty of discernment; destitute of intellectual light; unable or unwilling to understand or judge; as, authors are blind to their own defects. ;; Undiscerning; undiscriminating; inconsiderate. ;; Having such a state or condition as a thing would have to a person who is blind; not well marked or easily discernible; hidden; unseen; concealed; as, a blind path; a blind ditch. ;; Involved; intricate; not easily followed or traced. ;; Having no openings for light or passage; as, a blind wall; open only at one end; as, a blind alley; a blind gut. ;; Unintelligible, or not easily intelligible; as, a blind passage in a book; illegible; as, blind writing. ;; Abortive; failing to produce flowers or fruit; as, blind buds; blind flowers. ;; To make blind; to deprive of sight or discernment. ;; To deprive partially of vision; to make vision difficult for and painful to; to dazzle. ;; To darken; to obscure to th
Blind reader : A post-office clerk whose duty is to decipher obscure addresses.
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