Definition of Blites

1. blite [n] - See also: blite

Lexicographical Neighbors of Blites

blister beetle poisoning
blister blight
blister copper
blister pack
blister rust
blistered
blistering
blistering agent
blistering collodion
blisteringly
blisterlike
blisters
blistery
blit
blite
blites (current term)
blithe
blitheful
blithely
blitheness
blither
blithered
blithering
blithers
blithesome
blithesomely
blithest
blits
blittable
blitted

Literary usage of Blites

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The English Physician Enlarged: With Three Hundred and Sixty-nine Medicines by Nicholas Culpeper (1814)
"There are other kinds of blites which grow, differing from the two former sorts, but little, but only the wild are smaller in every part. Place. ..."

2. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1871)
"... foolhardy or wanton and careless contact with these, or with those other fungi—the moral mildews, moulds and blites of man's paradise. ..."

3. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1816)
"1 pungent, but more aromatic : it destroys vegetable blites, without reddening them ; and, when heated to about 212°, it explodes with much violence. ..."

4. Insect Pests of Farm, Garden and Orchard by Ezra Dwight Sanderson (1921)
"... varying from pale yellow to black, with the wing-covers striped as shown in Fig. 258. Several wild plants, including blites, Russian thistle, ..."

5. Insect Pests of Farm, Garden and Orchard by Ezra Dwight Sanderson (1921)
"... varying from pale yellow to black, with the wing-covers striped as shown in Fig. 258. Several wild plants, including blites, Russian thistle, ..."

6. Minnesota Plant Life by Conway MacMillan (1899)
"The tamaracks and spruces, with their small needle-shaped leaves, are examples of another, and the sea- blites and ..."

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