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blight
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blight
(encz) | blight,pohroma n: Zdeněk Brož |
blight
(encz) | blight,zkáza n: Zdeněk Brož |
blight
(encz) | blight,zmařit v: Zdeněk Brož |
blight
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Blight
(gcide) | Blight \Blight\ (bl[imac]t), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Blighted; p.
pr. & vb. n. Blighting.] [Perh. contr. from AS.
bl[imac]cettan to glitter, fr. the same root as E. bleak. The
meaning "to blight" comes in that case from to glitter,
hence, to be white or pale, grow pale, make pale, bleach. Cf.
Bleach, Bleak.]
1. To affect with blight; to blast; to prevent the growth and
fertility of.
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[This vapor] blasts vegetables, blights corn and
fruit, and is sometimes injurious even to man.
--Woodward.
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2. Hence: To destroy the happiness of; to ruin; to mar
essentially; to frustrate; as, to blight one's prospects.
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Seared in heart and lone and blighted. --Byron.
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Blight
(gcide) | Blight \Blight\, v. i.
To be affected by blight; to blast; as, this vine never
blights.
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Blight
(gcide) | Blight \Blight\, n.
1. 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.
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2. 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.
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3. That which frustrates one's plans or withers one's hopes;
that which impairs or destroys.
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A blight seemed to have fallen over our fortunes.
--Disraeli.
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4. (Zool.) 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.
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5. pl. A rashlike eruption on the human skin. [U. S.]
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blight
(wn) | blight
n 1: a state or condition being blighted
2: any plant disease resulting in withering without rotting
v 1: cause to suffer a blight; "Too much rain may blight the
garden with mold" [syn: blight, plague] |
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blighter
(encz) | blighter,darebák n: Zdeněk Brožblighter,mizera Zdeněk Brož |
blighty wound
(encz) | blighty wound,zranění vedoucí k návratu vojáka domů [brit.] web |
celery blight
(encz) | celery blight, n: |
chestnut blight
(encz) | chestnut blight, n: |
coffee blight
(encz) | coffee blight, n: |
collar blight
(encz) | collar blight, n: |
fire blight
(encz) | fire blight, n: |
halo blight
(encz) | halo blight, n: |
head blight
(encz) | head blight, n: |
late blight
(encz) | late blight, n: |
leaf blight
(encz) | leaf blight, n: |
needle blight
(encz) | needle blight, n: |
oak blight
(encz) | oak blight, n: |
peach blight
(encz) | peach blight, n: |
pear blight
(encz) | pear blight, n: |
potato blight
(encz) | potato blight, n: |
rim blight
(encz) | rim blight, n: |
spinach blight
(encz) | spinach blight, n: |
spur blight
(encz) | spur blight, n: |
stem blight
(encz) | stem blight, n: |
stripe blight
(encz) | stripe blight, n: |
thread blight
(encz) | thread blight, n: |
tomato blight
(encz) | tomato blight, n: |
twig blight
(encz) | twig blight, n: |
walnut blight
(encz) | walnut blight, n: |
Apple blight
(gcide) | Apple \Ap"ple\ ([a^]p"p'l), n. [OE. appel, eppel, AS. [ae]ppel,
[ae]pl; akin to Fries. & D. appel, OHG, aphul, aphol, G.
apfel, Icel. epli, Sw. [aum]ple, Dan. [ae]ble, Gael. ubhall,
W. afal, Arm. aval, Lith. ob[*u]lys, Russ. iabloko; of
unknown origin.]
1. The fleshy pome or fruit of a rosaceous tree ({Pyrus
malus}) cultivated in numberless varieties in the
temperate zones.
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Note: The European crab apple is supposed to be the original
kind, from which all others have sprung.
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2. (bot.) Any tree genus Pyrus which has the stalk sunken
into the base of the fruit; an apple tree.
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3. Any fruit or other vegetable production resembling, or
supposed to resemble, the apple; as, apple of love, or
love apple (a tomato), balsam apple, egg apple, oak apple.
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4. Anything round like an apple; as, an apple of gold.
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Note: Apple is used either adjectively or in combination; as,
apple paper or apple-paper, apple-shaped, apple
blossom, apple dumpling, apple pudding.
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Apple blight, an aphid which injures apple trees. See
Blight, n.
Apple borer (Zool.), a coleopterous insect ({Saperda
candida} or Saperda bivittata), the larva of which bores
into the trunk of the apple tree and pear tree.
Apple brandy, brandy made from apples.
Apple butter, a sauce made of apples stewed down in cider.
--Bartlett.
Apple corer, an instrument for removing the cores from
apples.
Apple fly (Zool.), any dipterous insect, the larva of which
burrows in apples. Apple flies belong to the genera
Drosophila and Trypeta.
Apple midge (Zool.) a small dipterous insect ({Sciara
mali}), the larva of which bores in apples.
Apple of the eye, the pupil.
Apple of discord, a subject of contention and envy, so
called from the mythological golden apple, inscribed "For
the fairest," which was thrown into an assembly of the
gods by Eris, the goddess of discord. It was contended for
by Juno, Minerva, and Venus, and was adjudged to the
latter.
Apple of love, or Love apple, the tomato ({Lycopersicum
esculentum}).
Apple of Peru, a large coarse herb (Nicandra physaloides)
bearing pale blue flowers, and a bladderlike fruit
inclosing a dry berry.
Apples of Sodom, a fruit described by ancient writers as
externally of fair appearance but dissolving into smoke
and ashes when plucked; Dead Sea apples. The name is often
given to the fruit of Solanum Sodom[ae]um, a prickly
shrub with fruit not unlike a small yellow tomato.
Apple sauce, stewed apples. [U. S.]
Apple snail or Apple shell (Zool.), a fresh-water,
operculated, spiral shell of the genus Ampullaria.
Apple tart, a tart containing apples.
Apple tree, a tree which naturally bears apples. See
Apple, 2.
Apple wine, cider.
Apple worm (Zool.), the larva of a small moth ({Carpocapsa
pomonella}) which burrows in the interior of apples. See
Codling moth.
Dead Sea Apple.
(a) pl. Apples of Sodom. Also Fig. "To seek the Dead Sea
apples of politics." --S. B. Griffin.
(b) A kind of gallnut coming from Arabia. See Gallnut.
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Blight
(gcide) | Blight \Blight\ (bl[imac]t), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Blighted; p.
pr. & vb. n. Blighting.] [Perh. contr. from AS.
bl[imac]cettan to glitter, fr. the same root as E. bleak. The
meaning "to blight" comes in that case from to glitter,
hence, to be white or pale, grow pale, make pale, bleach. Cf.
Bleach, Bleak.]
1. To affect with blight; to blast; to prevent the growth and
fertility of.
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[This vapor] blasts vegetables, blights corn and
fruit, and is sometimes injurious even to man.
--Woodward.
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2. Hence: To destroy the happiness of; to ruin; to mar
essentially; to frustrate; as, to blight one's prospects.
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Seared in heart and lone and blighted. --Byron.
[1913 Webster]Blight \Blight\, v. i.
To be affected by blight; to blast; as, this vine never
blights.
[1913 Webster]Blight \Blight\, n.
1. 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.
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2. 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.
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3. That which frustrates one's plans or withers one's hopes;
that which impairs or destroys.
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A blight seemed to have fallen over our fortunes.
--Disraeli.
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4. (Zool.) 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.
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5. pl. A rashlike eruption on the human skin. [U. S.]
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Blighted
(gcide) | Blight \Blight\ (bl[imac]t), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Blighted; p.
pr. & vb. n. Blighting.] [Perh. contr. from AS.
bl[imac]cettan to glitter, fr. the same root as E. bleak. The
meaning "to blight" comes in that case from to glitter,
hence, to be white or pale, grow pale, make pale, bleach. Cf.
Bleach, Bleak.]
1. To affect with blight; to blast; to prevent the growth and
fertility of.
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[This vapor] blasts vegetables, blights corn and
fruit, and is sometimes injurious even to man.
--Woodward.
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2. Hence: To destroy the happiness of; to ruin; to mar
essentially; to frustrate; as, to blight one's prospects.
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Seared in heart and lone and blighted. --Byron.
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blighted spoilt
(gcide) | destroyed \destroyed\ adj.
1. p. p. of destroy. [Narrower terms: {annihilated,
exterminated, wiped out(predicate)}; {blasted, desolate,
desolated, devastated, ravaged, ruined, wasted};
blighted, spoilt; {blotted out, obliterate,
obliterated}; demolished, dismantled, razed; {done
for(predicate), kaput(predicate), gone(prenominal), lost,
finished(predicate)}; extinguished; {ruined, wiped
out(predicate), impoverished}; totaled, wrecked;
war-torn, war-worn; {despoiled, pillaged, raped,
ravaged, sacked}] Also See: damaged. Antonym:
preserved
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2. destroyed physically or morally.
Syn: ruined.
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Blighting
(gcide) | Blight \Blight\ (bl[imac]t), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Blighted; p.
pr. & vb. n. Blighting.] [Perh. contr. from AS.
bl[imac]cettan to glitter, fr. the same root as E. bleak. The
meaning "to blight" comes in that case from to glitter,
hence, to be white or pale, grow pale, make pale, bleach. Cf.
Bleach, Bleak.]
1. To affect with blight; to blast; to prevent the growth and
fertility of.
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[This vapor] blasts vegetables, blights corn and
fruit, and is sometimes injurious even to man.
--Woodward.
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2. Hence: To destroy the happiness of; to ruin; to mar
essentially; to frustrate; as, to blight one's prospects.
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Seared in heart and lone and blighted. --Byron.
[1913 Webster]Blighting \Blight"ing\, a.
Causing blight.
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Blightingly
(gcide) | Blightingly \Blight"ing*ly\, adv.
So as to cause blight.
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Moth blight
(gcide) | Moth \Moth\, n.; pl. Moths (m[o^]thz). [OE. mothe, AS.
mo[eth][eth]e; akin to D. mot, G. motte, Icel. motti, and
prob. to E. mad an earthworm. Cf. Mad, n., Mawk.]
1. (Zool.) Any nocturnal lepidopterous insect, or any not
included among the butterflies; as, the luna moth; Io
moth; hawk moth.
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2. (Zool.) Any lepidopterous insect that feeds upon garments,
grain, etc.; as, the clothes moth; grain moth; bee moth.
See these terms under Clothes, Grain, etc.
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3. (Zool.) Any one of various other insects that destroy
woolen and fur goods, etc., esp. the larvae of several
species of beetles of the genera Dermestes and
Anthrenus. Carpet moths are often the larvae of
Anthrenus. See Carpet beetle, under Carpet,
Dermestes, Anthrenus.
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4. Anything which gradually and silently eats, consumes, or
wastes any other thing.
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Moth blight (Zool.), any plant louse of the genus
Aleurodes, and related genera. They are injurious to
various plants.
Moth gnat (Zool.), a dipterous insect of the genus
Bychoda, having fringed wings.
Moth hunter (Zool.), the goatsucker.
Moth miller (Zool.), a clothes moth. See Miller, 3,
(a) .
Moth mullein (Bot.), a common herb of the genus Verbascum
(Verbascum Blattaria), having large wheel-shaped yellow
or whitish flowers.
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Pear blight
(gcide) | Pear \Pear\ (p[^a]r), n. [OE. pere, AS. peru, L. pirum: cf. F.
poire. Cf. Perry.] (Bot.)
The fleshy pome, or fruit, of a rosaceous tree ({Pyrus
communis}), cultivated in many varieties in temperate
climates; also, the tree which bears this fruit. See {Pear
family}, below.
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Pear blight.
(a) (Bot.) A name of two distinct diseases of pear trees,
both causing a destruction of the branches, viz., that
caused by a minute insect (Xyleborus pyri), and that
caused by the freezing of the sap in winter. --A. J.
Downing.
(b) (Zool.) A very small beetle (Xyleborus pyri) whose
larv[ae] bore in the twigs of pear trees and cause them
to wither.
Pear family (Bot.), a suborder of rosaceous plants
(Pome[ae]), characterized by the calyx tube becoming
fleshy in fruit, and, combined with the ovaries, forming a
pome. It includes the apple, pear, quince, service berry,
and hawthorn.
Pear gauge (Physics), a kind of gauge for measuring the
exhaustion of an air-pump receiver; -- so called because
consisting in part of a pear-shaped glass vessel.
Pear shell (Zool.), any marine gastropod shell of the genus
Pyrula, native of tropical seas; -- so called from the
shape.
Pear slug (Zool.), the larva of a sawfly which is very
injurious to the foliage of the pear tree.
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spinach blight
(gcide) | spinach blight \spinach blight\ n.
a disease of spinach plants.
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Unblighted
(gcide) | Unblighted \Unblighted\
See blighted. |
alder blight
(wn) | alder blight
n 1: a disease of alders caused by the woolly alder aphid (a
plant louse) |
american blight
(wn) | American blight
n 1: primarily a bark feeder on aerial parts and roots of apple
and other trees [syn: woolly apple aphid, {American
blight}, Eriosoma lanigerum] |
apple blight
(wn) | apple blight
n 1: a disease of apple trees [syn: apple blight, {apple
canker}] |
bean blight
(wn) | bean blight
n 1: a blight of bean plants [syn: halo blight, halo spot,
bean blight] |
beet blight
(wn) | beet blight
n 1: a disease of beet plants |
blight canker
(wn) | blight canker
n 1: a phase of fire blight in which cankers appear |
blighted
(wn) | blighted
adj 1: affected by blight; anything that mars or prevents growth
or prosperity; "a blighted rose"; "blighted urban
districts" [syn: blighted, spoilt] |
blighter
(wn) | blighter
n 1: a persistently annoying person [syn: pest, blighter,
cuss, pesterer, gadfly]
2: a boy or man; "that chap is your host"; "there's a fellow at
the door"; "he's a likable cuss"; "he's a good bloke" [syn:
chap, fellow, feller, fella, lad, gent,
blighter, cuss, bloke] |
blighty
(wn) | Blighty
n 1: a slang term for Great Britain used by British troops
serving abroad |
blighty wound
(wn) | blighty wound
n 1: a wound that would cause an English soldier to be sent home
from service abroad |
blister blight
(wn) | blister blight
n 1: a disease of Scotch pines
2: a disease of tea plants |
cane blight
(wn) | cane blight
n 1: a disease affecting the canes of various bush fruits (e.g.,
raspberries or currants) |
celery blight
(wn) | celery blight
n 1: a fungous leaf spot disease of the celery plant |
chestnut blight
(wn) | chestnut blight
n 1: a disease of American chestnut trees [syn: {chestnut
blight}, chestnut canker, chestnut-bark disease] |
coffee blight
(wn) | coffee blight
n 1: a blight affecting the coffee plant |
collar blight
(wn) | collar blight
n 1: a disease affecting the trunks of pear and apple trees |
fire blight
(wn) | fire blight
n 1: a disease blackening the leaves of pear and apple trees
[syn: fire blight, pear blight] |
halo blight
(wn) | halo blight
n 1: a blight affecting the leaves of oats and other grasses
2: a blight of bean plants [syn: halo blight, halo spot,
bean blight] |
head blight
(wn) | head blight
n 1: a blight of the heads of cereals |
late blight
(wn) | late blight
n 1: blight in which symptoms appear late in the growing season
especially a disease of solanaceous plants caused by the
fungus Phytophthora infestans |
leaf blight
(wn) | leaf blight
n 1: any blight causing a browning and falling of the leaves of
a plant |
needle blight
(wn) | needle blight
n 1: a disease of conifers causing the needles to fall [syn:
needle blight, needle cast, leaf cast] |
oak blight
(wn) | oak blight
n 1: a black plant louse that lives on oaks and dogwoods |
peach blight
(wn) | peach blight
n 1: a disease of trees bearing drupes |
pear blight
(wn) | pear blight
n 1: a disease blackening the leaves of pear and apple trees
[syn: fire blight, pear blight] |
potato blight
(wn) | potato blight
n 1: a blight of potatoes [syn: potato blight, potato mold,
potato disease, potato mildew, potato murrain] |
rim blight
(wn) | rim blight
n 1: a disease of tea plants |
spinach blight
(wn) | spinach blight
n 1: a disease of spinach plants |
spur blight
(wn) | spur blight
n 1: a disease of raspberries |
stem blight
(wn) | stem blight
n 1: a fungous blight attacking the stems of plants |
stripe blight
(wn) | stripe blight
n 1: a disease of oats |
thread blight
(wn) | thread blight
n 1: a disease of tropical woody plants (cacao or tea or citrus) |
tomato blight
(wn) | tomato blight
n 1: a disease of tomato plants [syn: tomato blight, {tomato
yellows}] |
twig blight
(wn) | twig blight
n 1: a disease of the ends of twigs of woody plants |
walnut blight
(wn) | walnut blight
n 1: a disease of English walnut trees |
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