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 DSL - SND1    BLAB,   BLEB  , BLABE, BLEIB, Bleeb, v. 1, n. 2 [blɑb, blɛb,   bleb  , bləib Sc.; bl&epsilonrtail;ib, blib,   bleb   Rxb.]      1. v.
     (1) To cause the face to swell with weeping. Now obs. in St.Eng., only Eng. quot. 1601 ( N.E.D.).
     *Sc. 1721 Ramsay Poems 149:
     A Dutchess on her Velvet Couch reclin’d Blabs her fair Cheeks till she is almost blind.

     (2) To besmear, beslobber (with dirt, food, etc.); to besprinkle ( e.g. with dew).  
     *Sc. 1808 Jam. s.v. blob:
     We still say that clothes are blabbed or   bleb  bed, when stained with grease’ or any thing that injures them.  
     *Abd. 2 1934:
     Noo ye maunna   bleb   an’ blad that braw peenie ye’ve gotten on.
     *Ags. 1879 T. Ormond in A. L. Fenton Forfar Poets 141:
     Her Sunday goun below the chin Was blabbed an’ bleared wi’ toddy, O.
     *Gsw. 1877 A. G. Murdoch Laird’s Lykewake, etc. 177:
     O wildly there the blue-bells hang Their cups a’ blabb’d wi’ dew.

     2. n.
     (1) A drop of moisture, a bubble, a blot. N.E.D. gives blab, a bubble, as obs. except dial.
     *Sc. 1808 Jam. s.v. blob:
     A blab of ink.
     *Bch. 1924 J. Wight in Scots Mag. (Oct.) 59:
     Porridge, which throws up “blabs” or bubbles, which burst and emit steam.
     *Ags. 1894 A. Reid Sangs o’ the Heatherland 20:
     O flow’ret, bloomin’ a’ alane, Wi’ een sae fu’ o’ bleibs o’ dew.
     *Per. 1895 R. Ford Tayside Songs 13:
     You’ve seen the summer mornin’, lads, Come lauchin’ ower the lea’ An’ lichtin’ up the blabs o’ dew In ilk wee gowan’s e’e.
     *Rnf. 1836 R. Allan Poems and Songs 15:
     An’ whan at morn the blabs o’ dew Clear as the siller hang.
 
     (2) A blister. N.E.D. gives blab, a blister, as obs. except dial., and   bleb  , a blister or small swelling, in use up till 1876. Of   bleb  , small blister, Un. Eng. Dict. says “rare.”
     *Sc. 1808 Jam. :
     Bleib. A pustule, a blister. “A burnt bleib,” a blister caused by burning.
     *Rxb. 1923 Watson W.-B.:
     Blabe (n., nw.). A blister; a pustule. ‡ Bleeb (n., w.). Also bleib (ne., s.). A blister on the skin, as by burning.
     *Uls. 1880 W. H. Patterson Gl. Ant. and Dwn.:
     Blab. A raised blister.

     (3) “Bag of a honey bee” (Bnff. 7 1920).
     *Uls. 1880 W. H. Patterson Gl. Ant. and Dwn.:
     A bee’s blab, the little bag of honey within the body of a bee.

     (4) In pl.: a rash.
     *Lth. , *Border 1808 Jam. :
     Bleibs. An eruption to which children are subject, in which the spots appear larger than in the measles.

     (5) A blow.
     *Mry. 4 1935:
     I’ll gie ye a blab on the mouth.

     [Imitative in origin. Cogn. with O.E. blāwan, to blow, hence to swell up, etc.]