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Rhymeless verse in continu- ous decasyllabics with iambic or trochaic rhythm, first used in English by the Earl of Surrey in his version of the &neid> about 1540. There is other unrhymed verse, but it is not usual to extend to such poems as Collms's Ode to Evening, Whitman's Leaves of Grass, or the vers libre of to-day, the name blank verse.
The amorous congress.
A term that encompasses a broad range of concepts or ideas
To broadcast or announce something loudly and publicly
He has licked the blarney stone; he deals in the wonderful, or tips us the traveller.
Flattery, powers of persuasion. A castle in the county of Cork. It is said that whoever kisses a certain stone in this castle will be able to persuade others of whatever he or she pleases. The name of the castle is derived from BLADH, a blossom, i.e., the flowery or fertile demesne. BLADH is also flattery; hence the connexion. A more than ordinarily persuasive Irishman is said to have "kissed the BLARNEY stone."
Sir James Balfour, the Scottish judge, was so called because of his apostasy. He died in 1583. He is said to have served, deserted, and profited by all parties.
To curse. Originally a Military expression.
Something or someone from one's past that is unexpectedly encountered again
to launch or start something suddenly and energetically
Play music very loudly
In Spenser's Faerie Queene "a dreadful fiend of gods and men, ydrad"; the type of calumny or slander.
The old 89th Foot; so called because of their unerring certainty, and untiring perseverance in hunting down the Irish rebels in 1798, when the corps was commanded by Lord Blayney.
To leave trace purposely of one’s way in a forest or unknown path by marking trees or other objects.
to start doing something with a lot of energy and enthusiasm
A low synonym for the infernal regions, and now almost for anything. "Like BLAZES" is a phrase of intensification applied without any reference to the original meaning. Also applied to the brilliant habiliments of flunkeys, since the episode of Sam Weller and the "swarry."
A fair-complexioned wench.
Those cheated by Jack in a box. CANT.--See JACK IN A BOX.
Sheep stealing. Cant.
Disgusting.
To victimize, or extract money from a person, to sponge on, to make suffer vindictively.
to suffer significant financial losses
To urinate.
Spurs. He clapped his bleeders to his prad; be put spurs to his horse.
One who parts easily with his money, or bleeds freely.
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
A metaphor borrowed from fish, which will not bleed when stale.
It was at one time believed that, at the approach of a murderer, the blood of the murdered body gushed out. If in a dead body the slightest change was observable in the eyes, mouth, feet, or hands, the murderer was supposed to be present. The notion still survives m some places.
According to some, a sign that one is in love. Grose says if it bleeds one drop only it forebodes sickness, if three drops the omen is still worse; but Metton, m his Astrologaster, says, "If a man's nose bleeds one drop at the left nostril it is a sign of good luck, and. vice versa.
extremely
To go unnoticed or hide in a crowd
The mansion near Woodstock, Oxfordshire, given by the nation to the Duke of Marlborough, for his
Going to Blenheim Steps meant going to be dissected, or unearthed from one's grave. There was an anatomical school, over which Sir Astley Cooper presided at Blenheim Steps, Bond Street. Here "re- surrectionists" were sure to find a ready mart for their gruesome wares, for which they received sums of money varying from £3 to £10, and sometimes more.
Bloody.
To give someone a quality or thing
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
The birth of a child
A small quantity over and above the measure, usually given by hucksters dealing in peas, beans, and other vegetables.
A vow; "BLEST if I’ll do it," i.e., I am determined not to do it; euphemism for CURST.
To bother, to annoy, to pester. "A BLETHERING old nuisance" is a common expression for a garrulous old person.
Or BLOW, to inform, or peach, to lose or spend money.
Drunk.
A man who has lost or spent all his money is said to have BLEWED it. Also used in cases of robbery from the person, as, "He’s BLEWED his red ’un," i.e., he’s been eased of his watch.
A pistol.
A handgun.
A pistol.
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
A feint, pretence, or shift.
A pretence, or make-believe.
A bat is not blind, but if disturbed and forced into the sunlight it cannot see, and blunders about. It sees best in the dusk.
Beetles are not blind, but the dor-beetle or hedge-chafer, in its rapid flight, will occasionally bump against one as if it could not see.
Moles are not blind, but as they work underground, their eyes are very small. There is a mole found in the south of Europe, the eyes of which are covered by membranes, and probably this is the animal to which Aristotle refers when he says, " the mole is blind.
Owls are not blind, but being night birds, they see better in partial darkness than in the full light of day.
The breech. Buss blind cheeks; kiss mine a-se.
Social engagement between two people who have not met before
One which cannot be seen. Here blind means obscure, or concealed, as in Milton's "In the blind mazes of this tangled wood" (Cotntts, 181).
A poor or insufficient excuse. A blind ale-house, lane, or alley; an obscure, or little known or frequented ale-house, lane, or alley.
Beggars counterfeiting blindness, playing on fiddles, &c.
A ha-ha (q. v.) . Blind Magistrate, The. Sir John Fielding, knighted in 1761, was born blind. Sitting at Bow Street, he was m the commission of the Peace for Middlesex, Surrey, Essex, and the liberties of Westminster.
Those who give advice to others in need of it, but who are, themselves, unfitted to do so. The allusion is to Matt, xv, 14.