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blade 
black-snake 
from the former by having keeled instead of smooth black-Work (blak'werk), , Iron wrought by bladder-ketmia (Mad'er-ket'-'nii-S) n A cul- 
scaics and preferrinl highlands : also known as the maun- blacksmiths : so called in distinction from that tivated annual species of plants, of the genus 
tain Mark-make m\ racer, (c) A colubroid snake^ Oetjo- ^^^^ b y whitesmiths Hibiscus, H. Trionum, with a bladdery calyx. 
)lackwort (blak'wert), n. 1. The comfrey, V1 - JJ ' 
Symphytiim officinale. 2. An English name of 
the whortleberry, the fruit of I'accinium Myr- 
(c) A colubroid snake, Ociio- 
Itltll l*6lw-o.l..^ ...... . V^ ** , . , " .' - . 
phis ater, of active habits, peculiar to the island of Jamal- 
blacky (blak'i), n. ; pi. blackies (-iz). [Also less 
prop, blackey; dim. of black. Cf. darky.'} I. 
A black person; a negro. 2. A name used 
bladder-nose (blad'er-noz), . A name of the 
hooded seal, Cystopliora cristata. Encye. Brit., 
XXI. 582. 
bladder-nosed (blad'er-nozd), a. Having an 
inflatable bladdery appendage on the snout: 
applied to the so-called hooded seal, Cystopliora 
cristata. 
Black-snake (Bascatiion constrictor). 
f\. wiamn. u^i ov/i-i * A*^ji*w . . -i , \ i rni i 
colloquially for any black bird or animal, as a bladder-nut (blad'er-nut), w. 1. The popular 
rook. name of plants of the genus Staphylea, natu- 
I wonder if the old blacking do talk. T. Hughes. 
blacky-top (blak'i-top), n. A name of the 
stonechat, Saxienla or Pratincola rubicola. Mac- 
gillivray. [Local British.] 
blad 1 (blad), v. t. ; pret. and pp. bladded, ppr. 
bladding. [Also bland; perhaps imitative. Cf. 
dad 2 , beat, thump.] 1. To slap; strike with 
violence; beat. 2. To maltreat. [Scotch.] 
blad 1 (blad), n. [< Wad 1 , .] A slap; a flat 
blow. 
ca It reaches a length of about 5 feet, (d) A poisonous 
snake of the family Xajidtc, Pxcudechis porphyriacus, 
inhabiting low marshy places in nearly every part of Aus- 
tralia. It is black above, with each scale of the outer 
lateral series mostly red, and with ventral shields mar- 
gined with black, (e) A venomous snake of the family 
A'ajiJa, Iloptoeephalus cnrtm or H, fuscus, inhabiting --- i--" J rA , u / ^, n j\ ., . 
Australia and Tasmania. It is the common black-snake blad 2 (blad), n. [Also bland; prob. < Otorfi, V. , 
of Tasmania. cf. dad 2 , a large piece, with dad, beat, thump.] 
2. A kind of cowhide or horsewhip made with- ^ piece; a fragment; a large piece or lump, 
out distinction of stock and lash, braided and [S eo tch.] 
tapering from the butt to the long slender end, -^[ & ^s (blad), n. [Appar. = E. blade = Sw. Dan. 
' A portfolio; a blotting-book or 
[Scotch.] 
er), n. [So. also blather, blether; 
< ME. bladder, blader, bleddcr, bleder, bladdre, 
bleddre, bledre, < AS. bladdre, prop, with long 
Bladder-nut. Flowering node of Stnphylta tri/olia. 
lit; *, section of same. ( From Gray's " Genera of the Plants 
of the United States.") 
Symptomatic an- 
black-spaul (blak'spal), n. 
thrax. See anthrax. 
Blackstone's Hard-labor Bill. See 
black-strap (blak' strap), n. A name of vari- 
ous beverages, (n) In the United States, a mixture of 
ral order Sapindacea;, given on account of their 
inflated fruit-capsule. The European S. ]rinnata and 
the S. trifolia of the Atlantic States are occasionally cul- 
^ , tivated as ornamental shrubs. Central Asia, Japan, and 
bladder (= MD. blaider, D. blaar JjLUtt. Oil Cali f orllia lmve also each a peculiar species. 
ous beverages, () In the United States, a mixture of dere, LG. bladerc, bledder, blare = OHG.bla.tara, 3 A name sometimes given to the pistachio, 
spirituous liquor, generally rum or whisky, with molasses blattara, bldtra, MHG. bldtere, blatter, (i. blatter pistacia vera. 
and vinegar. = Icel. bladhra = Sw. bldddra = Dan. bltere, bladder-pod (Vtlad'er-pod), n. 1. A name of a 
A mug of the right black-strap goes round from lip to bladder), with suffix -Are, < bldwan, blow: see leguminous plant of southern Africa, Physolo- 
P- Hawthorne, Twice-Told Tales, II. 6tow i.] 1. A thin, elastic, highly distensible &;,, with bladdery pods. 2. In the United 
(6) A sailors' term for any strong, dark-colored liquor : an d contractile muscular and membranous sac states, Vesicaria Sliortii, a cruciferous plant 
ueafcoTs'ts dark-red fornling that port ion of the urinary passages in ^fa globose capsules, 
black-rtripe (blak ' strip), n. Same as black- which urine, constantly^secreted^by t^ejdd- bladder : senna (blad 'er- sen* a), . A species 
strap. 
blacktail (blak'tal), n. 1. A percoid fish, the 
Acerina cernua. More generally called ruff or 
pope. See ruff. 2. A common name among 
hunters (a) of the black-tailed deer or mule- 
deer, Cariacus macrotis (see mule-deer); (b) of 
the Columbian deer, C. columbianus : in both 
cases in distinction from the common or 
white-tailed deer, C. virginianus. 3. In India, 
a name of the chikara or ravine-deer, Tragops 
bennetti. 
blackthorn (blak'thorn), . 1. The sloe, Pru- 
nus spinosa. See sloe. 2. A walking-stick 
made of the stem of this shrub. 
n. 
neys, is retained until it is discharged from the 
body. Such a vesicle is specially characteristic of mam- 
mals, its size and shape varying with the species. Its cavity 
is primitively that of the allantois. It is lined with mu- 
cous membrane, is more or less invested with peritoneum, 
and is supplied with vessels and nerves. 
2. Any similar receptacle, sac, or vesicle, com- 
monly distinguished by a qualifying prefix. See 
air-bladder, brain-bladder, gall-bladder, swim- 
bladder. 3. Any vesicle, blister, bleb, blain, 
or pustule containing fluid or air. 4. In bot. : 
(a) A hollow membranous appendage on the 
leaves of Utricularia, filled with air and float- 
ing the plant, (b) A cellular expansion of the 
substance of many algee filled with air. See 
of Colutea, C. arborescens, natural order Legu- 
minosae, frequently cultivated, it is a shrub with 
yellow flowers and bladder-like pods, a native of southern 
Europe. It derives its name of senna from its popular 
use as a purgative. Also called bastard Kenna. 
bladder-snout (blad'er-snout), n. The common 
bladderwort, Utricularia imlgaris: so named 
from the shape of the corolla. 
form (blad'er-werm), n. A tape- 
its cystic stage ; a hydatid or scolex. 
See cystic, and cut under Tania. 
lladderwort (blad'er-wert), . The common 
name of members of the genus rtricularia, 
slender aquatic plants, the leaves of which are 
furnished with floating-bladders. See Utricu- 
black-tongue (blak'tung), . A form of an- cut under air-cell. 5. Anything inflated, emp- /an - a 
thrax exhibiting dark bloody vesicles and ul- ty, or unsound: as, "bladders of philosophy," Bladder-wrack (blad'er-rak) n. A seaweed, 
ii A_ ,_ 4.1. J., , ..IT,..,*;,,,, 1, ,,,.,,, C. l>,if,l. f,:.t,,i. C!n 4- svnin4- AfnvilnnJ^ A +, nt +1-IA U*'\A\* * OfVAi V, -*t 
cerating spots on the tongue, affecting horses 
and cattle. See anthrax. 
black-turpeth (blak'ter"peth), n. Mercury di- 
oxid or suboxid, Hg^O: commonly called the 
gray, ash, or black oxid. 
black-varnish tree. See Rhus and Melanor- 
rhcea. 
black-wad (blak'wod), n. An ore of manga- 
nese used as a drying ingredient in paints. 
Blackwall hitch. See hitch. 
black-ward (blak'ward), n. Under the feudal 
Rochester, Sat. against Mankind. -Atony of the 
(blad'er), v. t. [< bladder, .] 1. To 
put up in a bladder : as, bladdered lard. 2. To 
puff up; fill, as with wind. [Rare.] 
A hollow globe of glass that long before 
She full of emptiness had bladdered. 
G. Fletcher, Christ's Victory and Triumph. 
bladder-blight (blad'er-blit), . See blight. 
bladder-brand (blad'er-brand), n. Same as 
bunt*, 1. 
system, a subvassal who held ward of the bladder-campion (blad'er-kam"pi-on), n. The 
king's vassal. popular name of the plant Silene inflata: so 
black-wash (blak'wosh). M. 1. A lotion com- called from its inflated calyx, 
posed of calomel and lime-water. 2. Any bladdered (blad'erd), p. a. Swelled like a blad- 
wash that blackens. der; puffed up; vain. 
Dryden, Epic Poetry. 
Remove . . . the modern layers of black-ieash, and let A blaildered greatness. 
the man himself . . . be seen. **** bladder . fern (blad'er-fern), . The common 
name of Cystopteris, a genus of ferns : so called 
from the bladder-like indusium. 
Five species are known ; Great Britain 
and North America have three each, 
and of these two are common to both 
countries; the flfth occurs in Silesia 
and the Carpathian mountains. 
bladder-gastrula (blad ' er - 
gas"tro'-la), v. Same as peri- 
tiastrula. 
purple color, and is very valuable for furniture and carv- bladder-green (blad'er-gren), 
ing, as well as for cart-wheels, gun-carriages, etc. Also '' ame M*ap-07W. 
called East Indian rosewood. bladder-herb (blad'er-erb), n. 
2. The wood of the Acacia Melanoxylon, the The winter-cherry, Physalis Al- 
most valuable timber of Australia, noted for kekengi : so called from its in- 
its hardness and durability . 3. In the West flated calyx. 
Indies, the name given to the black mangrove, bladder-kelp (blad'er-kelp), . 1. Same as 
Avicennia nitida, a small tree of sea-coast marsh- bladder-wrack. 2. A seaweed of the California 
es, with very heavy, hard, and dark-brown or coast, of the genus Nereocystis, having an ex- 
nearly black wood. The tree is also found in ceedingly long stem which dilates above into 
southern Florida. a bladder several feet in length, 
8. In molding, a clay wash to which powdered 
charcoal has been added. See blacking, 3. 
black-water (blak'wa"ter), . A disease of 
sheep. 
black- whale (blak'hwal), n. A delphinoid ce- 
tacean, Globicephalus svineval, more generally 
called blackfish. 
blackwood (blak' wild), n. 1. The wood of a 
large leguminous tree of the East Indies, Dal- 
bergia latifolia. It is extremely hard, mostly of a dark 
Bladder-fern. Pin- 
nule of Cystopteris 
fragilis, with hooti- 
shaped indusia. 
Fucus vesiculosus : so named from the floating- 
vesicles in its fronds. Also called bladder-kelp, 
sea-oak, and sea-wrack. See Fucus. 
bladdery (blad'er-i), a. [< bladder + -yl.~\ 
Thin, membranous, and inflated or distended, 
like a bladder ; vesicular ; blistered ; pustular. 
Bladdery fever. Same as pemphitjuit. 
blade (blad), n. [< ME. blad, blade, bladde, a 
leaf of grass or corn (not found in the general 
sense of 'leaf'), commonly the cutting part of 
a knife or sword, the sword itself, < AS. bltxd 
(pi. bladu, blado), a leaf, broad part of a thing, 
as of an oar (= OS. Wad = OFries. Med = D. 
blad = MLG. blat, LG. blad = OHG. MHG. blat, 
G. Wort = Icel. Wad/i = Sw. Dan. Wad, a leaf), 
perhaps, with orig. pp. suffix -d (as in sad, cold, 
old, loud, etc.), < blowan (i/*Wa, *Wo), blow, 
bloom, whence also E. bloom 1 , blossom, akin 
to L. flos (flor-), -> E. flower. To the same ult. 
root belongs perhaps L. folium = Gr. ^ivlAov, 
leaf : see folio, foil 1 . The reg. mod. E. form 
would be Mod (like sad, glad, etc.); the long 
vowel is due to the ME. inflected forms, blade, 
etc.] 1. The leaf of a plant, particularly (now 
perhaps exclusively) of gramineous plants; also, 
the young stalk or spire of gramineous plants. 
But when the blade was sprung up and brought forth 
fruit, then appeared the tares also. Mat. -viii. -'". 
Whoever could make . . . two blades of grass to grow 
. . . where only one grew before, would ilt S.TVI I >etter of 
mankind . . . than the whole race of politicians. 
Sirift, (inlliver's Travels, u. 7. 
The varying year with ,/. ami sheaf. 
'/'<// Ki/*i>u, Day-Dream. 
2. In bot., the lamina or broad part of a leaf, 
petal, si'pal. etc., us distinguished from the 
' or I'iKiMalk. See cut under It-itf. 3. 
Anything resembling a blade, (a) A sword ; also, 
the Hat, thin, cutting part of a knife or other cutting-t 
g-tool. 
