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Blight
Webster's Dictionary
or (1):
(n.) A rashlike eruption on the human skin.
(2):
(n.) 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.
(3):
(v. i.) To be affected by blight; to blast; as, this vine never blights.
(4):
(v. t.) To affect with blight; to blast; to prevent the growth and fertility of.
(5):
(v. t.) Hence: To destroy the happiness of; to ruin; to mar essentially; to frustrate; as, to blight one's prospects.
(6):
(n.) That which frustrates one's plans or withers one's hopes; that which impairs or destroys.
(7):
(n.) 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.
(8):
(n.) 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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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Blight'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/b/blight.html. 1828.
