blist /blist/ (Spenser) pat and pap of bless^1,2

bless¹ /bles/

1. To consecrate
2. To make the sign of the cross over (Christianity)
3. To extol as holy, pronounce holy or happy
4. To invoke divine favour upon
5. To wish happiness to
6. To make joyous, happy or prosperous
7. To glorify
8. To approve officially
9. To be thankful for

Expressing (often ironic) affection for something regarded as delicate and pleasing

blessˈed or blest adjective

1. Happy
2. Prosperous
3. Bringing relief or happiness
4. In heaven
5. Beatified
6. Accursed, confounded (euphemistic for blasted)

blessˈedly adverb

blessˈedness noun

blessˈing noun

1. A wish or prayer for happiness or success
2. Any means or cause of happiness
3. A gift from God (Bible)
4. A prayer invoking the favour of God at a meal
5. Official approval

blessed sacrament noun (Christianity)

The consecrated Host

Blessed Virgin noun (RC)

The Virgin Mary (also BVM)

a blessing in disguise

Something apparently unfortunate proving unexpectedly advantageous

be blessed with

To have the good fortune to possess

bless me! or bless my soul! (old)

An exclamation of surprise

bless you!

1. For God bless you!, used superstitiously to someone who has just sneezed
2. An expression of gratitude or affection

count one's blessings

To be grateful for what one has rather than bemoan what one lacks

single blessedness

The unmarried state

bless² /bles/ (Spenser)

To brandish

bless³ /bles/

1. To wound
2. To thrash

B

Magnetic flux density

B

1. (as a medieval Roman numeral) 300
2. Baryon number (physics)
3. Black (on lead pencils to indicate softness)
4. Boron (chem)

B or B.

1. Bachelor
2. Baron
3. Bass (music)
4. Belgium (IVR)
5. Bishop (in chess)
6. Britain
7. British

B or b /bē/

1. The second letter in the modern English alphabet as in the Roman, corresponding to the Greek beta (Β, β), its sound a voiced bilabial stop
2. The seventh note of the diatonic scale of C major (H in German notation, B being used for B flat) (music)
3. The key or scale having that note for its tonic (music)
4. One of the four blood types in the ABO blood group system
5. The designation of the subsidiary series of paper sizes (used for posters), ranging from B0 (1000×1414mm) to B10 (31×44mm)
6. In road-classification, followed by a number, the designation of secondary roads
7. In hexadecimal notation, 11 (decimal) or 1011 (binary)
8. The second highest in a category or range
9. Something or someone of the second class or order, or of a class arbitrarily designated B
10. A designation indicating lesser importance, secondary billing, etc such as the Bˈ-side of a record or a Bˈ-movie
11. Anything shaped like the letter B

B flat or B noun

A 19c euphemism for a domestic bedbug

Bˈ-list adjective (informal)

Not belonging to the most important or famous group (of celebrities, etc)

B'-lister n.

B lymphocyte or B cell noun

A type of lymphocyte or cell, originating (in mammals) in the bone marrow, which manufactures antibodies, present on the cell surface, in response to stimulation by an antigen

B quadratum, quadrate B or square B noun

In old music, B natural

B rotundum or round B noun

In old music, B flat

B'-school noun

Business school

not know a B from a battledore, broomstick or bull's foot (old sl)

To be very ignorant

B̄

(medieval Roman numeral) 3000

B̄

(Roman numeral) 100000

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