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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.
Incompetent people guiding others who are also incompetent
This is a small area not sensitive to light, situated on the retina where the optic nerve enters. The term is used figuratively to describe some area in one's discernment where judgment and under- standing are lacking.
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
The Fiftieth Regiment of Foot; so called through their great sufferings from ophthalmia when serving in Egypt.
A game at cards which has no recommendation beyond the rapidity with which money can be won and lost at it; called also WILFUL MURDER.
Night, darkness. Sometimes applied to the period "between the lights."
A play used by children, where one being blinded by a handkerchief bound over his eyes, attempts to seize any one of the company, who all endeavour to avoid him; the person caught, must be blinded in his stead.
A very old-established name for an old and well-known children's game. "Buff" here is short for "buffet," and is an allusion to the three buffs or pats which the "blind man" gets when he has caught a player.
The hour of dusk, when it is too dark to work, and too soon to light candles. The phrase was in common use at least as early as Elizabethan times.
To give in or back down first in a confrontation
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
A person who sells spectacles.
A blackened eye.—Norwich. Also a hard blow in the eye. BLINKERS, spectacles.
Spectacles.
bloody
A gadget.
A street term for any decently dressed person. From the persistent abuse lavished on a "bloated and parasitical aristocracy" by Hyde Park demagogues and a certain unpleasant portion of the weekly press.
(from BLAB), to talk. Beggars are of two kinds—those who SCREEVE (introducing themselves with a FAKEMENT, or false document) and those who BLOB, or state their case in their own truly "unvarnished" language.
The head. "To BLOCK a hat," is to knock a man’s hat down over his eyes.—See BONNET. Also a street obstruction.
A system of pulleys and ropes for lifting heavy loads
Prisons, houses of correction, &c.
The small dark-coloured and sometimes stinking pieces of meat which used to be exposed on the cheap butchers’ blocks or counters; matters of interest to all the sharp-visaged women in poor neighbourhoods. Since the great rise in the price of meat there has been little necessity for butchers to make block ornaments of their odds and ends. They are bespoke beforehand.
to ignore or exclude something
Finished. The game is blocked at both ends; the game is ended.
Fundamental or basic aspects of a task or project
A man; "the BLOKE with the jasey," the man with the wig, i.e., the Judge. Gipsy and Hindoo, LOKE. North, BLOACHER, any large animal.
A riotous disorderly fellow.