Blench: Definition and part of speech

Blench

  1. v. i. & t. To grow or make pale.
  2. v. i. To shrink; to start back; to draw back, from lack of courage or resolution; to flinch; to quail.
  3. v. i. To fly off; to turn aside.
  4. v. t. To baffle; to disconcert; to turn away; — also, to obstruct; to hinder.
  5. v. t. To draw back from; to deny from fear.
  6. n. A looking aside or askance.
  7. 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.

Blear: Definition and part of speech

Blear

  1. v. Causing or caused by dimness of sight; dim.
  2. v. Dim or sore with water or rheum; — said of the eyes.

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.

Bleeding: Definition and part of speech

Bleeding

  1. p. pr. & vb. n. of Bleed
  2. a. Emitting, or appearing to emit, blood or sap, etc.; also, expressing anguish or compassion.

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.

Bleed: Definition and part of speech

Bleed

  1. v. t. To draw money from (one); to induce to pay; as, they bled him freely for this fund.
  2. v. i. To emit blood; to lose blood; to run with blood, by whatever means; as, the arm bleeds; the wound bled freely; to bleed at the nose.
  3. v. i. To withdraw blood from the body; to let blood; as, Dr. A. bleeds in fevers.
  4. v. i. To lose or shed one’s blood, as in case of a violent death or severe wounds; to die by violence.
  5. v. i. To issue forth, or drop, as blood from an incision.
  6. v. i. To lose sap, gum, or juice; as, a tree or a vine bleeds when tapped or wounded.
  7. v. i. To pay or lose money; to have money drawn or extorted; as, to bleed freely for a cause.
  8. v. t. To let blood from; to take or draw blood from, as by opening a vein.
  9. v. t. To lose, as blood; to emit or let drop, as sap.
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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.