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BLADE, _s._ The leaf of a tree, S.
A. S. _blaed_, _bled_; Su. G. Isl. Belg. _blad_, Germ. _blat_, Alem. _plat_, id.; perhaps the part. pa. of A. S. _blew-an_, _blow-an_, florere, to bud, to burgeon; _blaewed_, q. what is _blowed_, or shot forth; just as Franc. _bluat_, flos, is from _bly-en_, florere.
BLADOCH, BLEDOCH, BLADDA, s. b.u.t.ter-milk, S. B.
_Bannatyne Poems._
Ir. _bladhach_, Gael. _blath-ach_, id. C. B. _blith_, milk in general.
BLADRY, _s._ Expl. ”trumpery.”
_Kelly._
It may be either the same with _Bladarie_, or _Blaidry_, q. v.
BLAE, BLAY, _s._ The rough parts of wood left in consequence of boring or sawing, S. B.
Germ. _bleh_, thin leaves or plates; lamina, bracteola; Wachter.
BLAES, _s. pl._ Apparently, lamina of stone, S.
_Law Case._
BLAE, _adj._ Livid.
V. ~Bla~.
BLAE-BERRY, _s._ The Billberry; Vaccinium myrtillus, Linn.
_Ramsay._
Sw. _bla-baer_, vaccinium, Seren. Isl. _blaber_, myrtilli; G. Andr.
_To_ BLAFLUM, _v. a._ To beguile, S.
V. ~Bleflum~.
_Ramsay._
BLAIDRY, _s._ Nonsense.
V. ~Blether~, _v._