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(Printers), a term applied to a paragraph mark ¶, owing to the fact of the eye of the P being black or filled up.

Blind cheeks (popular), posteriors, termed sometimes blind Cupid. The French argot calls it more appropriately le borgne. Another slang expression for the same part of the body is "two fat cheeks and ne'er a nose;" in French slang "un visage sans nez."

Blinder (thieves), to "take a blinder," to die.

Blindo, to (army), to die.

Blind one's trail, to (American), to act in such a way that it would be difficult to trace one's doings; putting off the scent. Thus a fox in crossing a river blinds his trail, water being fatal to the scent of dogs.

Blink, to (American), to drink. In Dutch thieves' slang, blinkert is a glass. "Blinkert om uit te buizen"—"To booze from a glass."

Blinker (American), a phrase fully explained by the following anecdote from a New York newspaper:—

—Vide.

Blinkers (pugilistic), the eyes, termed also ogles, optics, peepers, winkers. (Common), spectacles. Blinkert, Dutch slang, glass.

Blinko (thieves), the term is explained by the quotation.

Blizzard (American), a word of many meanings. In one of the early Crockett almanacs about 1836 it appears as distinctly meaning a shot from a rifle.

It has been conjectured that in this sense it was derived from