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BLOISENT, _part. pa._ One is said to have a _bloisent face_, when it is red, swollen, or disfigured, whether by intemperance, or by being exposed to the weather; Ang.

This appears to be radically the same with E. _blowze_; ”sun-burnt, high-coloured;” Johns. Teut. _blose_, rubor, purpurissum, redness, the colour of purple; _blos-en_, rubescere; _blosende w.a.n.ghen_, rubentes genae, purpled cheeks.

_To_ BLOME, BLUME, _v. n._ To s.h.i.+ne, to gleam.

_Barbour._

Su. G. _blomm-a_, to flourish; E. _bloom_, used metaph.: or perhaps from A. S. _be_, a common prefix, and _leom-an_ to s.h.i.+ne, as _gleam_ is from _geleom-an_, id.

BLONK, BLOUK, _s._ A steed, a horse,

_Gawan and Gol._

Alem. _planchaz_, equus pallidus, hodie _blank_; Schilter. Thus _blonk_ may have originally meant merely a _white_ horse, q. Fr. _blanc_ cheval.

BLONKS, _s. pl._

_King Hart._

If this does not denote horses, as above, it may mean _blocks_ of wood.

BLOUT, _adj._ Bare, naked.

V. ~Blait~.

_Douglas._

Su. G. Isl. _blott_, Belg. _bloot_, id. The tautological phrase _blott och bar_ is used in Sw.

BLOUT, _s._

1. The sudden breaking of a storm, S. _Bloutenin_, Clydesd.

2. ”A _blout_ of foul weather,” a sudden fall of rain, snow or hail, accompanied with wind, S.

3. A sudden eruption of a liquid substance, accompanied with noise, S.

Probably allied to Su. G. _bloet_, humidus; _bloeta waegar_, viae humidae.

BLUBBER, BLUBBIR, _s._ A bubble of air, S.

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