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_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.
3. To blow with a wind instrument.
_Gawan and Gol._
4. To boast, to speak in an ostentatious manner. S.
Su. G _blaas-a_, inspirare, Germ. _blas-en_, flare. Isl. _blast-ur_, halitus, flatus.
Hence,
BLAST, _s._ A brag, a vain boast, S.
_Z. Boyd._
BLASTER, _s._ A boaster; also, one who speaks extravagantly in narration, S.
BLASTIE, _s._ "A shrivelled dwarf; a term of contempt," S. q. what is _blasted_.
_Burns._
_To_ BLAST, v. a. To blow up with gunpowder.
_Statist. Acc._
BLASTER. One who is employed to blow up stones with gunpowder; S.
_Pennant._
BLATE, _adj._ Bashful.
V. ~Blait~.
_To_ BLATHER, _v. n._ To talk nonsensically.
BLATHER, _s._
V. ~Blether~.
BLATTER, _s._ A rattling noise; S.
_Ramsay._
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