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Blight
Blight Blight, v. i.
To be affected by blight; to blast; as, this vine never
blights.
Blighting
Blighting Blight"ing, a.
Causing blight.
Blightingly
Blightingly Blight"ing*ly, adv.
So as to cause blight.
Moth blightMoth 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. (Zo["o]l.) Any nocturnal lepidopterous insect, or any not
included among the butterflies; as, the luna moth; Io
moth; hawk moth.
2. (Zo["o]l.) Any lepidopterous insect that feeds upon
garments, grain, etc.; as, the clothes moth; grain moth;
bee moth. See these terms under Clothes, Grain, etc.
3. (Zo["o]l.) Any one of various other insects that destroy
woolen and fur goods, etc., esp. the larv[ae] of several
species of beetles of the genera Dermestes and
Anthrenus. Carpet moths are often the larv[ae] of
Anthrenus. See Carpet beetle, under Carpet,
Dermestes, Anthrenus.
4. Anything which gradually and silently eats, consumes, or
wastes any other thing.
Moth blight (Zo["o]l.), any plant louse of the genus
Aleurodes, and related genera. They are injurious to
various plants.
Moth gnat (Zo["o]l.), a dipterous insect of the genus
Bychoda, having fringed wings.
Moth hunter (Zo["o]l.), the goatsucker.
Moth miller (Zo["o]l.), a clothes moth. See Miller, 3,
(a) .
Moth mullein (Bot.), a common herb of the genus Verbascum
(V. Blattaria), having large wheel-shaped yellow or
whitish flowers. Pear blightPear 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.
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) (Zo["o]l.) 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 (Zo["o]l.), any marine gastropod shell of the
genus Pyrula, native of tropical seas; -- so called from
the shape.
Pear slug (Zo["o]l.), the larva of a sawfly which is very
injurious to the foliage of the pear tree.
Meaning of Bligh from wikipedia
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Bligh may
refer to: Anna
Bligh (born 1960),
Australian politician Beatrice Bligh (1916–1973),
Australian gardener George Miller Bligh (1780–1834), British...
- Vice-Admiral
William Bligh FRS (9
September 1754 – 7
December 1817) was a
British officer in the
Royal Navy and a
colonial administrator. He is best known...
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Lieutenant William Bligh, and set him and
eighteen loyalists adrift in the ship's open launch. The
reasons behind the
mutiny are
still debated.
Bligh and his crew...
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staged by the New
South Wales Corps in
order to
depose Governor William Bligh. Australia's
first and only
military coup, its name
derives from the illicit...
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Bligh Reef,
sometimes known as
Bligh Island Reef, is a reef off the
coast of
Bligh Island in
Prince William Sound, Alaska. This was the
location of the...
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William Bligh. In 1787,
Christian was
appointed master's mate on Bounty,
tasked with
transporting breadfruit plants from
Tahiti to the West Indies.
Bligh subsequently...
- 1972 book
Captain Bligh and Mr
Christian by
Richard Hough. It
stars Mel
Gibson as
Fletcher Christian and
Anthony Hopkins as
William Bligh, with supporting...
- Anna
Maria Bligh AC (born 14 July 1960) is a
lobbyist and
former Australian politician who
served as the 37th
Premier of Queensland, in
office from 2007...
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William Bligh was the
Governor of New
South Wales. Mary
Bligh was born on 1
April 1783 at Douglas, Isle of Man, the
daughter of
William Bligh and his...
- 44 at the time of the mutiny,
including her
commander Lieutenant William Bligh. All but two of
those aboard were
Royal Navy personnel; the
exceptions were...
