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BLIGHT, n.

1. A disease incident to plants, affecting them variously. sometimes the whole plant perishes; sometimes only the leaves and blossoms, which will shrivel, as if scorched.

2. Any thing nipping or blasting.

In America, I have often heard a cutaneous eruption on the human skin called by the name of blights.

BLIGHT, v.t. To affect with blight; to blast; to prevent growth,and fertility; to frustrate.




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BLIGHT, n.

1. A disease incident to plants, affecting them variously. sometimes the whole plant perishes; sometimes only the leaves and blossoms, which will shrivel, as if scorched.

2. Any thing nipping or blasting.

In America, I have often heard a cutaneous eruption on the human skin called by the name of blights.

BLIGHT, v.t. To affect with blight; to blast; to prevent growth,and fertility; to frustrate.


BLIGHT, n. [Qu. Sax. blæctha, scurf, leprosy.]

  1. A disease incident to plants, affecting them variously. Sometimes the whole plant perishes; sometimes only the leaves and blossoms, which will shrivel, as if scorched.
  2. Any thing nipping or blasting. In America, I have often heard a cutaneous eruption on the human skin called by the name of blights.

BLIGHT, v.t.

To affect with blight; to blast; to prevent growth, and fertility; to frustrate.


Blight
  1. To affect with blight; to blast; to prevent the growth and fertility of.

    [This vapor] blasts vegetables, blights corn and fruit, and is sometimes injurious even to man.
    Woodward.

  2. To be affected by blight; to blast; as, this vine never blights.
  3. Mildew; decay; anything nipping or blasting; -- applied as a general name to various injuries or diseases of plants, causing the whole or a part to wither, whether occasioned by insects, fungi, or atmospheric influences.
  4. Hence: To destroy the happiness of; to ruin; to mar essentially; to frustrate; as, to blight one's prospects.

    Seared in heart and lone and blighted.
    Byron.

  5. The act of blighting, or the state of being blighted; a withering or mildewing, or a stoppage of growth in the whole or a part of a plant, etc.
  6. That which frustrates one's plans or withers one's hopes; that which impairs or destroys.

    A blight seemed to have fallen over our fortunes.
    Disraeli.

  7. A downy species of aphis, or plant louse, destructive to fruit trees, infesting both the roots and branches; -- also applied to several other injurious insects.
  8. A rashlike eruption on the human skin.

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Blight

BLIGHT, noun

1. A disease incident to plants, affecting them variously. sometimes the whole plant perishes; sometimes only the leaves and blossoms, which will shrivel, as if scorched.

2. Any thing nipping or blasting.

In America, I have often heard a cutaneous eruption on the human skin called by the name of blights.

BLIGHT, verb transitive To affect with blight; to blast; to prevent growth, and fertility; to frustrate.

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IMPORT'ANCE, n.

1. Weight; consequence; a bearing on some interest; that quality of any thing by which it may affect a measure, interest or result. The education of youth is of great importance to a free government. A religious education is of infinite importance to every human being.

2. Weight or consequence in the scale of being.

Thy own importance know.

Nor bound thy narrow views to things below.

3. Weight or consequence in self-estimation.

He believes himself a man of importance.

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