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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._