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Alate
- adjective - (of seeds or insects) having winglike extensions; "alate leaves"; "alate seeds of a maple tree"
Blade
- noun - a broad flat body part (as of the shoulder or tongue)
- a cut of beef from the shoulder blade
- a cutting or thrusting weapon that has a long metal blade and a hilt with a hand guard
- a dashing young man; "gay young blades bragged of their amorous adventures"
- especially a leaf of grass or the broad portion of a leaf as distinct from the petiole
- flat surface that rotates and pushes against air or water
- formost part of a propellor
- something long and thin resembling a blade of grass; "a blade of lint on his suit"
- the flat part of a tool or weapon that (usually) has a cutting edge
- the part of the skate that slides on the ice
Blake
- noun - Sir Peter - English pop artist who created the sleeve design for the Beatles' album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.
- visionary British poet and painter (1757-1827)
Blame
- adjective - a reproach for some lapse or misdeed; "he took the blame for it"; "it was a bum rap"
- an accusation that you are responsible for some lapse or misdeed; "his incrimination was based on my testimony"; "the police laid the blame on the driver"
- attribute responsibility to; "We blamed the accident on her"; "The tragedy was charged to her inexperience"
- expletives used informally as intensifiers; "he's a blasted idiot"; "it's a blamed shame"; "a blame cold winter"; "not a blessed dime"; "I'll be damned (or blessed or darned or goddamned) if I'll do any such thing"; "he's a damn (or goddam or goddamned) fool"; "a deuced idiot"; "an infernal nuisance"
- harass with constant criticism; "Don't always pick on your little brother"
- put or pin the blame on
Blare
- noun - a loud harsh or strident noise
- make a loud noise; "The horns of the taxis blared"
- make a strident sound; "She tended to blast when speaking into a microphone"
Blase
- adjective - nonchalantly unconcerned; "a blase attitude about housecleaning"
- uninterested because of frequent exposure or indulgence; "his blase indifference"; "a petulant blase air"; "the bored gaze of the successful film star"
- very sophisticated especially because of surfeit; versed in the ways of the world; "the blase traveler refers to the ocean he has crossed as `the pond'"; "the benefits of his worldly wisdom"
Blate
- adjective - cry plaintively; "The lambs were bleating"
- disposed to avoid notice; "they considered themselves a tough outfit and weren't bashful about letting anybody know it"; (`blate' is a Scottish term for bashful)
Blaze
- noun - a cause of difficulty and suffering; "war is hell"; "go to blazes"
- a light within the field of vision that is brighter than the brightness to which the eyes are adapted; "a glare of sunlight"
- a light-colored marking; "they chipped off bark to mark the trail with blazes"; "the horse had a blaze between its eyes"
- a strong flame that burns brightly; "the blaze spread rapidly"
- burn brightly and intensely; "The summer sun alone can cause a pine to blaze"
- indicate by marking trees with blazes; "blaze a trail"
- move rapidly and as if blazing; "The spaceship blazed out into space"
- noisy and unrestrained mischief; "raising blazes"
- shine brightly and intensively; "Meteors blazed across the atmosphere"
- shoot rapidly and repeatedly; "He blazed away at the men"
Clade
- noun - a group of biological taxa or species that share features inherited from a common ancestor