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blɔustər, blȯstər], sb., 1) violent wind with squall, he is a b. de day [‘to-day’]; U. 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; U. 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; esp. of peaty soil in such state; b) inflated, loose peats. 5) jokingly of cough (U^mo.: blostər). — blostər, blɔ^ustər, blɔustər: U.; otherwise comm. (in senses 3 and 4): blostər, blɔstər, blȯstər. — O.N. blástr, m., a) blowing; blast; b) rising; swelling; c) breath; puffing, blástr ok hósti (cough).

bloster, bluster [blostər], vb., to cough; to go coughing; mostly jokingly. U^mo. Deriv. of bloster, sb. 5.

blot [(blɔt) blåt], sb., steeping, soaking, esp.: a) the first water in which clothes are soaked, de first, second b.; b) one of the filterings to which the soaked “sooen-sids” (L.Sc. “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” (L.Sc. 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. — No. and Fær. blot, n., softening; soaking, steeping.

blue-lit [-lɩt], sb., indigo, — No. blaalit, m. See lit, sb.

blulopen [blū·lop·ən, -lop·əm, -lopm·], adj., bruised. *blóðlopinn; cf. No. blodlaupa, vb., to suffuse with blodmelta (coagulated blood under the skin).

†blum [blūm], sb., crystallization in flower-like forms on fish when thoroughly dried. O.N. blóm, n.,

bloom; flowers and leaves (collect.), Eng. bloom, sb.

blumelt [blū·mæ‘lt·], vb., to hurt, strike so that coagulated blood appears under the skin. I’m blumeltet me; mostly as adj.: blumeltet (prop. perf. part.), suffused with coagulated blood. *blóð-melta; Fær. blóðmelta; No. blodmelta, vb., = Shetl. blumelt.

blura¹ [blūra], sb., 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; N.I.; I ha’e it (e.g. a scolding) in b. for him (U^w.); to lie in b., to think about playing (esp. in retaliation) someone a trick (Yⁿ.); from Nm^w. is reported “to keep somet’in’ in b.” of two persons having a secret in common (cf. 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; N.I.; sometimes also of something palpable, an object brought to light: do no [‘not’] bring it in b.! don’t let it be seen! (U^mo.); of something which can be seen indistinctly at a distance: dat is in b., it is just in sight; U^w.; 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; Uⁿ. — In some of the above-mentioned exprs., blura approaches the Icel. blórar, m. pl., “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); cf. O.N. blóra-maðr, m., a person whom one can blame for something.

blura² [blūra], sb., dense, bluish fog along the shore (in calm weather; harbinger of wind). Fo. *blá-røykr