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Blither

verb

To talk foolishly. Synonyms: babble, blather, blether, smatter.

Blithe

adjective

Lacking or showing a lack of due concern.

Carefree and happy and lighthearted. Synonyms: blithesome, light-hearted, lighthearted, lightsome. "A merry blithesome nature" , "Her lighthearted nature" , "Trilling songs with a lightsome heart"

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... a tugboat through and got stuck so they couldn't shut it, and there was no way back to Westchester except over the railroad trestle, and my father had said that I could go anywhere I pleased except on that trestle. And so here I was caught, and it came on to blither and blow, and I found an oak tree, all hollow like a little house, and I crept in and fell asleep and never woke till daylight. My father said next time I could come home by the trestle, or he'd know ...

— The Spread Eagle and Other Stories • Gouverneur Morris

... topmost bough Is singing loud and clear, The children shouting at their task It does him good to hear. He watches them with his bead-black eyes, And blither still he sings; But clearer than dear blackbird's note The children's ...

— Little Folks (Septemeber 1884) - A Magazine for the Young • Various

... beacon thou On the dangerous journey[8] wilt the foe overcome, The loathly host let." The light then departed, Ascended on high, and the messenger too, 95 To the realm of the pure. The king was the blither And freer from sorrow, chieftain of men, In thoughts of his soul, ...

— Elene; Judith; Athelstan, or the Fight at Brunanburh; Byrhtnoth, or the Fight at Maldon; and the Dream of the Rood • Anonymous

... and the lady were greatly at their ease; a comelier and a blither pair were never seen. They had much to tell one to the other, but the hours passed till it was time for the knight to go again to his own realm. He prayed the dame to give him leave to depart, and she sweetly granted his prayer, yet so only that he promised ...

— French Mediaeval Romances from the Lays of Marie de France • Marie de France

... merry England is waking as of old, With eyes of blither hazel and hair of brighter gold: For Robin Hood is here again beneath the bursting spray In Sherwood, in Sherwood, ...

— Collected Poems - Volume One (of 2) • Alfred Noyes

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