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_Ramsay._

2. Blunt, unfeeling; a secondary sense.

_Douglas._

3. Curt, rough, uncivil.

_Spalding._

4. Easily deceived.

_Gl. Surv. Nairn._

O. E. _blade_, silly, frivolous; or in the same sense in which we now speak of a blunt reason or excuse. Isl. _blaad-ur_, _blauth-ur_, _blaud_, soft. The word seems to be primarily applied to things which are softened by moisture. Mollis, limosus, maceratus. Hence used to signify what is feminine; as opposed to _huat-ar_, masculine. It also signifies, timid. _Bleyde_, softness, fear, shame; _hugbleith_, softness of mind; Germ. Su. G. _blode_, Belg. _blood_, mollis, timidus.

BLAIT-MOUIT, _adj._ Bashful, sheepish, q. ashamed to open one's mouth.

BLAITIE-b.u.m, s. Simpleton, stupid fellow.

_Lyndsay._

If this be the genuine orthography, perhaps from Teut. _blait_, vaniloquus; or rather, blait, sheepish, and _bomme_, tympanum. But it is generally written _Batie-b.u.m_, q. v.

BLAK _of the_ EIE, the apple of the eye, S.

_R. Bruce._

BLAN, _pret._ Caused to cease.

_Gawan and Gol._

It is undoubtedly the pret. of _blin_; A. S. _blan_, _blann_, cessavit.

BLANCHART, _adj._ White.

_Gawan and Gol._

Fr. _blanc_, _blanche_, id. The name _blanchards_ is given to a kind of linen cloth the yarn of which has been twice bleached, before it was put into the loom; perhaps immediately from Teut. _blancke_, id. and _aerd_, Belg. _aardt_, nature.

V. ~Art~.

BLANCIS, _s. pl._ Ornaments worn by those who represented Moors, in the Pageant exhibited at Edinburgh, A. 1590.

_Watson's Coll._