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Blob   /blɑb/   Listen
noun
Blob  n.  
1.
Something blunt and round; a small drop or lump of something viscid or thick; a drop; a bubble; a blister.
2.
(Zool.) A small fresh-water fish (Uranidea Richardsoni); the miller's thumb.





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"Blob" Quotes from Famous Books



... cucumber stuck in the ground and surmounted by a flat gourd-like 'amalika.' .... Exquisite in detail, perfect in the design and execution of their ornamentation, the form of these temples leaves much to be desired. The flat blob at the top seems to crush down the vague aspirings of the cucumber, which, even if unstopped, must erelong have ended in an earthward ...
— The Crest-Wave of Evolution • Kenneth Morris
... to fortune. In all the little deformed specimens thus dissected the core has been found to consist of a foreign substance, generally what seemed under a microscope of limited power a speck of dirt. The heart of one was a blob of mud, which gave off a most baleful vapour. This was the result of the house-cleaning of a common, edible rock oyster, and the pearl, dirty green and lustreless, merely a thin casket, for the noisome mud had not solidified. The care with which the impurity had been rendered innocuous ...
— Tropic Days • E. J. Banfield
... a procession of gunners each carrying on his shoulder an unpleasant-looking object which resembled a gigantic dumb-bell with only one blob on the end—a huge spherical cannon-ball on a steel stalk. They were coming from Leicester Square, and he met them just as they turned up the Haymarket. Waiting until they had all gone by, he followed on in the rear of the party, which suddenly turned sharp to the left, and disappeared ...
— No Man's Land • H. C. McNeile
... science did not go far enough to pursue the conversation. He knew that their power was something like a solar battery. When in gear, the current that went through the "frame" of the hour-glass-shaped craft turned it into a huge blob of plasma, a miniature nebula, and hurled it into space. As for the Fourth Drive, he hadn't the slightest idea how it worked. Ato had said that the scientists who developed it were not sure—just as men had developed generators long before ...
— Hunters Out of Space • Joseph Everidge Kelleam
... in front of him. It was a long commercial envelope of ordinary type, and although the flap was secured with a blob of sealing wax, there was no ...
— The Vanished Messenger • E. Phillips Oppenheim


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