Bless

1. v. t. To wave; to brandish.
2. v. t. To make or pronounce holy; to consecrate
3. v. t. To make happy, blithesome, or joyous; to confer prosperity or happiness upon; to grant divine favor to.
4. v. t. To express a wish or prayer for the happiness of; to invoke a blessing upon; — applied to persons.
5. v. t. To invoke or confer beneficial attributes or qualities upon; to invoke or confer a blessing on, — as on food.
6. v. t. To make the sign of the cross upon; to cross (one’s self).
7. v. t. To guard; to keep; to protect.
8. v. t. To praise, or glorify; to extol for excellences.
9. v. t. To esteem or account happy; to felicitate.
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The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.