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BLELLUM, _s_ An idle talking fellow, Ayrs

_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; usedof the sun, after it has been covered with a cloud

V ~Blink~, _v_

_Baillie_

Belg _blenck-en_, _blinck-en_, Su G _blaenk-a_, to shi+ne, to glance, to flash as lightning

BLENK, BLINK, _s_

1 A beam, a ray

_Douglas_

2 ”A gliht,” 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_