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Rh blɔustər, blȯstər],, 1) violent wind with squall, he is a b. de day [‘to-day’]; 2) flaring up; fieriness; violence; hasty speech; also very great haste; he was in a b., a) he had a violent fit of anger (spoke violently); b) he was in an unusual hurry; 3) mouth of a skin-buoy, through which it is inflated, de b. o’ de bow. 4) a) soil where water has oozed in and raised the surface; swollen stretch of land, full of fissures;  of peaty soil in such state; b) inflated, loose peats. 5) jokingly of cough (: blostər). — blostər, blɔ$mo$stər, blɔustər: ; otherwise (in senses 3 and 4): blostər, blɔstər, blȯstər. — blástr,, a) blowing; blast; b) rising; swelling; c) breath; puffing, blástr ok hósti (cough).

bloster, bluster [blostər],, to cough; to go coughing; mostly jokingly. of, 5.

blot [(blɔt) blåt],, steeping, soaking, : a) the first water in which clothes are soaked, de first, second b.; b) one of the filterings to which the soaked “sooen-sids” ( “sowen-seeds” or “-seidis”: the dust of oatmeal, mixed with the remains of the husks) are subjected in the making of the so-called “sooens” ( sowens), a sort of oatmeal gruel; de first b. o’ sooens = sede; c) dirty water in which something has been rinsed or cleaned, taati [‘potato’]-b. — and  blot,, softening; soaking, steeping.

blue-lit [-lɩt],, indigo, — blaalit, See ,

blulopen [blū·lop·ən, -lop·əm, -lopm·],, bruised. *blóðlopinn; blodlaupa,, to suffuse with blodmelta (coagulated blood under the skin).

†blum [blūm],, crystallization in flower-like forms on fish when thoroughly dried. blóm, , bloom; flowers and leaves , bloom,

blumelt [blū·mæ‘lt·],, to hurt, strike so that coagulated blood appears under the skin. I’m me; mostly as : , suffused with coagulated blood. *blóð-melta; blóðmelta; blodmelta, , =.

blura$u$ [blūra],, in the phrase: “in b.”: a) of something kept secret and brooded over; to ha’e or keep somet’in’ in b., to brood over something, to meditate secretly the carrying-out of a plan; ; I ha’e it ( a scolding) in b. for him ; to lie in b., to think about playing ( in retaliation) someone a trick ; from is reported “to keep somet’in’ in b.” of two persons having a secret in common ( meaning c); b) of something kept secret which is beginning to leak out or to be known; hit [‘it’] is (is comin’) in b., it begins to leak out or to be known; ; sometimes also of something palpable, an object brought to light: do no [‘not’] bring it in b.! don’t let it be seen! ; of something which can be seen indistinctly at a distance: dat is in b., it is just in sight; ; c) in b. wi’ somebody, in partnership with a person in carrying out a plan (a trick); he was in b. wi’ him aboot it; — In some of the above-mentioned,  approaches the blórar,  , “the doing of something so that others have to bear the blame” (B.H.), í blóra við einhvern (so that the blame can be placed on somebody), til blóra (who can be accused);  blóra-maðr,, a person whom one can blame for something.

blura$mo$ [blūra],, dense, bluish fog along the shore (in calm weather; harbinger of wind). *blá-røykr