Blob \Blob\ (bl[o^]b), n. [See {Bleb}.] 1. Something blunt and round; a small drop or lump of something viscid or thick; a drop; a bubble; a blister. --Wright.
2. (Zo["o]l.) A small fresh-water fish ({Uranidea Richardsoni}); the miller's thumb.
Five years ago, then-Secretary of Education William Bennett said the key to reform was dissolving "the blob," the massive bureaucracy of professional educrats.
Reveille had sounded at 4:45 a.m. A murky blob of a sun, promising another blistering, humid day, barely pinked the surrounding marshes when Wells double-timed her 47 charges out to the infiltration course.
"We're just trying to give them the other side," Rechten said. "We're not talking about a blob of protoplasm.
The blob has to react to each clue conversationally, trying to learn his identity without saying anything that might contradict it.
They're one big blob of oil." Since March 24, when the tanker Exxon Valdez smashed into Bligh Reef in Prince William Sound and leaked 10.1 million gallons of crude through its shattered hull, the reports of destroyed wildlife have multiplied steadily.
The slick hovered about a mile from several beaches and a marsh this morning, but desert winds condensed it from a four-mile-long plume into a roundish, mile-long blob and were pushing it away from shore, officials said.
Her emotions seemed real enough, but the sad irony is that in some ways, she was more sympathetic as a blue blob.
Terry, a former used-car salesman, will point to the fetus and declare: "That's not a blob of cells. That's a little girl." Operation Rescue also distributes a video designed to evoke equal shock.
The title is apparently intended to refer to America generally, and from this bland, barn-door-size blob of condescension a great many other errors in thought, observation and good sense proliferate.