blade, n.1. cutting edge, edge, cutter, opener; knife, scalpel, lancet, bistoury; razor, chisel, penknife, jacknife, bowie knife; sword, rapier, cutlass, sabre; spear, bayonet, dagger, poniard, stiletto, machete.
2. leaf, Bot.
lamina, Bot.
phyllome, Bot.
sepal, needle, frond; leaflet, Bot.
foliole, All. Bot.
bract, bractlet, bracteole; stem, stalk, Bot.
peduncle, leafstalk, Bot. petiole; shoot, twig, sprig, switch.
3. buck, playboy, ladies' man, man about town, SI. lover boy, philanderer; dandy, fop, beau, dude, exquisite, SI.swell.
blain, n.boil, furuncle, furunculus, carbuncle, pustule, pimple, papule, papilla, pock, wen, whelk, Rare. bleb, Archaic, botch; abscess, ulcer, ulceration, noma, fester, festering, gathering, gumboil, parulis, tubercle, Obs.apostem orapostemation, Archaic, impostume orimposthume; canker, lesion, chancre, chancroid, simple chancre, soft chancre; sore, open orrunning sore, gall, excoriation; whitlow, agnail.
blamable, adj.culpable, guilty, at fault, wrong, in the wrong; chargeable, answerable, responsible, liable, impeachable, accusable, imputable.
blame, v. 1. accuse, hold [s.o.] accountable orresponsible, lay at [s.o.'s] door, point the finger at [5.0.], SI.pin or stick [s.t.] on [s.o.], Chiefly Scot.wite; (all in reference to culpability)
allege, ascribe, attribute, assign, impute, lay.
2. fault, find fault, criticize, censure, reproach, reprove, reprehend, objurgate; berate, disparage, belittle; scold, chide, upbraid, reprimand, take to task, Inf. dress down, Inf.get orjump on.
-n. 3. censure, animadversion, stricture, rebuke, complaint, criticism, reflection, castigation; reproof, admonition, reprehension, reproach, objurgation, chiding; disparagement, belittling; condemnation, disapprobation, disapproval, denunciation, reprobation, obloquy.
4. accusation, charge, indictment, Law.true bill, Law.plaint, Law.complaint; incrimination, crimination, recrimination, denunciation, Scot. and North Eng.
threap; implication, inculpation, Chiefly Scot. delation; (all in reference to wrongdoing)
imputation, attribution, ascription, assignment, allegation.
5. culpability, blamableness, blameworthiness, cen-surability; responsibility, Inf.rap, Chiefly Scot.wite, guilt, fault, sin, Scot. and North Eng.
dirdum.
blameless, adj.inculpable, unblamable, uncensur-able, unimpeachable, irreproachable, above reproach, above suspicion; innocent, clear, guiltless, sinless, stainless; uncorrupted, undefiled, untainted, unspotted, unsullied, unsoiled, unblemished, unmarred, untarnished; virtuous, good, moral, upright, upstanding; faultless, sterling, perfect, saintly, without fault, peerless, without peer, matchless; admirable, estimable, worthy.
blameworthy, adj.reprehensible, reproachable, con-demnable; indefensible, inexcusable, unjustifiable; blameful, discreditable, disreputable, ignoble, shameful, immoral, unprincipled; wicked, nefarious, iniquitous, flagitious.
blanch, v. 1. whiten, bleach, pale, gray, wash out; etiolate, achromatize, decolor, decolorize; dim, fade, cloud, grow dull, lose luster orbrightness.
2. blench, go white, pale, grow pale, become pallid, Archaic, wan; droop, flag, sag, faint; Inf.pass out, swoon, black out, Inf.keel over.
bland, adj.1. gentle, agreeable, affable, amiable, suave, urbane; cool, composed, unemotional, undemonstrative; soulless, unanimated, casual, indifferent, uncaring, unresponsive.