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_Burns._

_To_ BLEME, _v. n._ To bloom, to blossom.

_Bannatyne Poems._

BLEMIS, _s. pl._ Blossoms, flowers.

_Houlate._

Belg. _bloem_, Isl. _bloma_, Alem. _bluom_, flos, flosculus. Teut.

_bloem-en_, florere.

_To_ BLENK, BLINK, _v. n._

1. To open the eyes, as one does from a slumber, S.

_Barbour._

2. To throw a glance on one, especially as expressive of regard, S.

_Ross._

3. To look with a favourable eye; used metaph. in allusion to the s.h.i.+ning of the sun, after it has been covered with a cloud.

V. ~Blink~, _v._

_Baillie._

Belg. _blenck-en_, _blinck-en_, Su. G. _blaenk-a_, to s.h.i.+ne, to glance, to flash as lightning.

BLENK, BLINK, _s._

1. A beam, a ray.

_Douglas._

2. ”A glimpse of light,” S. Sir J. Sinclair's Observ. p. 113.

3. Hence transferred to the transient influence of the rays of the sun, especially in a cold or cloudy day. Thus it is common to speak of ”a warm _blink_,” ”a clear blink,” S.

_Sir J. Sinclair._

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