Part 82 (1/2)

_To_ BLASH, _n. a._ To soak, to drench. ”To _blash_ one's stomach,” to drink too copiously of any weak and diluting liquor; S.

V. ~Plash~.

Perhaps radically the same with _plash_, from Germ. _platz-en_.

BLASH, _s._ A heavy fall of rain; S.

BLASHY, _adj._ Deluging, sweeping away by inundation; S.

_Ramsay._

_Blashy_, ”thin, poor; Northumb.”

BLASNIT, _adj._ Perhaps, bare, bald, without hair.

_Bannatyne Poems._

Germ. _bloss_, bare, _bloss-en_, to make bare; or rather, Teut.

_bles_, calvus, whence _blesse_, frons capillo nuda.

BLASOWNE, _s._

1. Dress over the armour, on which the armorial bearings were blazoned.

_Wyntown._

2. The badge of office worn by a king's messenger on his arm, S.

_Erskine._

Germ. _blaesse_ denotes a sign in general. Thence _blazon_, a term marking that sign, in heraldry, which is peculiar to each family. The origin seems to be Su. G. _blaesse_.

V. ~Bawsand~.

_To_ BLAST, _v. n._

1. To pant, to breathe hard, S. B.

_Ross._

2. To smoke tobacco, S. B.