Scald the head for a few minutes; take it out of the water, and with a blunt knife scrape off all the hair.

I was not well featured, having a freckled, square face, a biggish head, a blunt nose, grey, colourless eyes, and a sandy thatch of hair, I had great square shoulders, but my arms were too short for my stature, andfrom an accident in my nursing daysof indifferent strength.

His principal work is making and sharpening the uncouth-looking ploughshares, which look more like flat blunt chisels than anything else.

He drew from the humidor drawer of his desk a box of the long cigars with blunt ends which need no encircling gilt band in praise of their quality.

Juke had a look at once languid and amused, a well-shaped, smooth brown head, blunt features, the introspective, wide-set eyes of the mystic, and the sweet, flexible voice of the actor (his mother had, in fact, been a well-known actress of the eighties).

You would think him a churlish blunt fellow, but they find in him many tokens of humanity.

All which I can easily believe, for Mr. SETON'S blunt method of describing Jim Hartigan's evolution from an unhallowed stable-boy to a muscular Christian continually suggests reality.

Mr. Smith asked with blunt-ness; he grew more suspicious as the other's embarrassment increased.

2. Lacerated, or torn woundsthose produced by the claws of an animal, the bite of a dog, running quickly against some projecting blunt object, such as a nail, &c. 2685.

On one side was a steep hill of sage and aspens, and on the other a black, spear-pointed spruce forest, rising sheer to a bold, blunt peak patched with snow-banks, and bronze and gray in the clear light.

One face of this disk was generously perforated, the other, solid, boasted a short blunt post round which several feet of extremely fine wire had been coiled.

Her tongue held ready a blunt refusal, but she did not utter it; and she did not know why.

They are then knocked off the pitch; turned and worked on the other side, on the second day; cleaned with spirit of tar, rounded or clipt with blunt scissors, and fitted in spectacle frames or tubes.

A short blunt spine on each side of the mouth.

BELLEUR', companion of Pinac and Mirabel ("the wild goose"), of stout blunt temper; in love with Rosalu'ra, a daughter of Nantolet.

The bagging trousers and the blunt-toed shoes of his companion were to Robert Macklin a distinct shock.

Boy described a few quick blunt angles in the air"well, sir, he's the livin' image of a monkey-wrench.

Sometimes he has a brass badge, and carries a sword, a curved, blunt weapon, the handle of which is so small that scarcely an Englishman's hand would be found to fit it.

"Why, yes," says the blunt artist, "he certainly was a very extraordinary manthat is the bust of my early friend and first patron, John Horne Tooke."