English English Dictionary

English English Dictionary

The online English-English dictionary from The Project Gutenberg

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Bliss (n.)

Orig., blithesomeness; gladness; now, the highest degree of happiness; blessedness; exalted felicity; heavenly joy.

Blisses (pl. )

of Bliss

Blissful (a.)

Full of, characterized by, or causing, joy and felicity; happy in the highest degree.

Blissless (a.)

Destitute of bliss.

Blissom (v. i.)

To be lustful; to be lascivious.

Blissom (a.)

Lascivious; also, in heat; -- said of ewes.

Blister (v. i.)

To be affected with a blister or blisters; to have a blister form on.

Blister (v. t.)

To give pain to, or to injure, as if by a blister.

Blister (v. t.)

To raise a blister or blisters upon.

Blister (n.)

A vesicatory; a plaster of Spanish flies, or other matter, applied to raise a blister.

Blister (n.)

Any elevation made by the separation of the film or skin, as on plants; or by the swelling of the substance at the surface, as on steel.

Blister (n.)

A vesicle of the skin, containing watery matter or serum, whether occasioned by a burn or other injury, or by a vesicatory; a collection of serous fluid causing a bladderlike elevation of the cuticle.

Blistered (imp. & p. p.)

of Blister

Blistering (p. pr. & vb. n.)

of Blister

Blistery (a.)

Full of blisters.

Blite (n.)

A genus of herbs (Blitum) with a fleshy calyx. Blitum capitatum is the strawberry blite.

Blithe (a.)

Gay; merry; sprightly; joyous; glad; cheerful; as, a blithe spirit.

Blitheful (a.)

Gay; full of gayety; joyous.

Blithely (adv.)

In a blithe manner.

Blitheness (n.)

The state of being blithe.