Blackwood – Bliss
Blackwood
or INDIAN ROSE- WOOD, a leguminous tree of Hindustan (dalbergia latifolia), the timber of which is highly valued and much used in the manufacture of fine furniture. The Australian blackwood is the acacia melanoxylon.
Bladder
a membranous bag in man and the higher animals, designed for the reception of the urine, as it is secreted by the kidneys. This, being the most important structure of the kind in the frame, is called, by way of prominence, the bladder; any other one is distinguished from it by a word prefixed, as the gall bladder.
Bladder Wort
the English name of utricularia, a genus of scrophulariaceous plants. Both the English and the scientific appellations refer to the fact that the leaves bear at their margins small bladders.
Blanc-Mange
in cookery, a name of different preparations of the consistency of a jelly, variously composed of dissolved isinglass, arrow root, maize flour, etc. , with milk and flavoring substances.
Blanket
a coarse, heavy, loosely to anything fitted to intercept vision, the woven, woolen stuff, usually napped and allusion being to the fact that a blanket of the stage. there is not rhyme, blanched or omitted.
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Blenheim Dog
a variety of spaniel, bearing a close resemblance to the King Charles breed, but somewhat smaller, so named from having been originally bred by one of the Dukes of Marlborough. It has a short muzzle, long, silky hair without any curl, and long, pendulous ears.
Blennius
a genus of spiny finned fishes, the typical one of the family blenniidæ. The species are small, agile fishes of no economic value, often left behind in pools by the retreating tide. They have long dorsal and large pectoral fins, while their heads are often furnished with tentacles, simple or branched.
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Blennorrhea
a genus of diseases, including those which consist of mucous discharges, especially from the genital and urinary systems. Modern microscopical research claims to have shown that this class of diseases are the product of idiopathic conditions, such as catarrh, or of lack of cleanliness.
Blesbok
an antelope of south Africa with a white marked face, a general purplish chocolate color, and a saddle of a bluish color; found in great numbers in the late Boer republics in south Africa and much hunted.
Blight
a diseased state of cultivated plants, especially cereals and grasses.
Blimbing
the Indian name of the fruit of averrhoa bilimbi, a small tree, family oxalidaceæ, called also cucumber tree, the fruit being acid and resembling a small cucumber. The carambola belongs to the same genus.
Bliss
TASKER HOWARD, American soldier; born in Lewisburg, Pa., Dec. 31, 1853. He graduated from West Point in 1875 and from the United States Artillery School in 1884. From 1885 to 1898 he was professor of military science at the United States Naval War College. He served in Cuba and GEN. TASKER BLISS