- 2. Caressing, caresses, endearment, soft words, expression of affection, billing and cooing, toying, fawning.
- 3. Delight, joy, pleasure, attraction, sweet, charm.
Blank, a.
- 1. Void, empty.
- 2. White, of a white color.
- 3. Astonished, confounded, confused, dumfounded, disconcerted, nonplussed, struck dumb. See Amazed.
- 4. Utter, pure, simple, unmixed, unmingled, unadulterated, perfect, entire, complete, absolute, unabated,
unqualified, unmitigated, mere, the merest.
Blank, n.
- 1. Void, vacancy, empty place, empty space, unfilled room.
- 2. Blank form, form.
- 3. Unwrought piece (of metal), block.
Blank verse. Unrhymed verse (especially the heroic verse of five iambic feet).
Blare, n. Blast, peal, clang, clangor.
Blare, v. n. Blow, peal, sound loudly.
Blare, v. a. Sound forth, blazon, proclaim, trumpet.
Blarney, n. Flattery, adulation, smooth phrases, cajolery, gammon.
Blasé, a. [Fr.] Surfeited, cloyed, satiated, palled, incapable of enjoyment (in consequence of excesses), worn out, exhausted
Blaspheme, v. a.
- 1. Speak impiously of.
- 2. (Rare.) Revile, calumniate, defame, traduce, malign, speak evil of.
Blaspheme, v. n. Utter blasphemy, speak impiously of God or of sacred things, be impious, utter sacrilege.
Blasphemous, a. Impious, sacrilegious, profane.