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Webster 1913 Edition
Blight
Blight
(blīt)
, Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Blighted
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Blighting
.] 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.
Hence: To destroy the happiness of; to ruin; to mar essentially; to frustrate;
as, to
. blight
one’s prospectsSeared in heart and lone and
blighted
. Byron.
Blight
,Verb.
I.
To be affected by blight; to blast;
as, this vine never
. blights
Blight
,Noun.
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.
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.
3.
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.
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.
5.
pl.
A rashlike eruption on the human skin.
[U. S.]
Webster 1828 Edition
Blight
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
,Verb.
T.