BLEEDING, in surgery. See SURGERY.BLEEDING at the nose. See HEMORRHAGE, and MEDICINE. BLEEDING is also used for the drawing out the sap of plants, otherwise called tapping. See TAPPING. BLEKING, the most south-easterly province of Sweden, having the Baltic on the south, Smaland on the north, and the province of Schonen on the west. BLEMISH, a term in hunting, when the hounds or beagles finding where the chace has been, make a proffer to enter, but return. BLEMYES, or BLEMMYES, a fabulous people of Ethiopia, said to have had no heads; their eyes, mouth, &c. being situated in their breasts. BLENCH or BLANCH. See BLANCH. BLEND, or BLENDE, a mineral substance resembling lead-ore, but containing very little of that metal. BLEND-WATER, called also morehough, a distemper incident to black cattle, comes either from the blood, from the yellows, or from the change of ground. In order to cure it, take bole armoniac, and as much charcoal dust as will fill an egg-shell, a good quantity of the inner bark of an oak, dried and pounded together to a powder, and give it to the beast in a quart of new milk and a pint of earing.