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_Polwart._

2. To injure one's character.

_Bannatyne Poems._

3. To cause moral pollution.

_Abp. Hamiltoun._

A. S. _blaec-an_, denigrare. Isl. _blek_, liquor tinctorius.

_To_ BLECK, _v. a._ To puzzle, to reduce to a nonplus, in an examination or disputation, S.

Germ. _black-en_, _plack-en_, vexare, exagitare.

_To_ BLEEZE, _v. n._

1. To become a little sour. Milk is said to _bleeze_, or to be _bleezed_, when it is turned, but not congealed, S.; _blink_, synon.

From Germ. _blaes-en_, to blow; or, _blitz-en_, fulgurare; heat, especially when accompanied by lightning, more generally producing this effect.

2. The part. _bleezed_ signifies the state of one on whom intoxicating liquor begins to operate, S. It especially denotes the change produced in the expression of the countenance; as, _He looked bleezed-like_.

BLED, _part. pa._ Perhaps, sprung.

_Gawan and Gol._

BLEFLUM, BLEPHUM, _s._ A sham, an illusion, what has no reality in it, S.

V. ~Blaflum~, _v._

_Rutherford._

Isl. _flim_, irrisio, carmen famosum. Hence _flimt-a_, diffamo, _flimt_, nugae infames, G. Andr. p. 74. Su. G. _flimm-a_, illudere.

BLEHAND, BLIHAND, _adj._

_Sir Trist._

”_Blue_, from _bleah_, Sax. _caeruleus_. Blehand brown. A bluish brown,” Gl. The word is merely A. S. _blae-hewen_ a little transformed.

The idea seems, ”a brownish colour, inclining to purple or violet.”

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