the source of a stream; _e.g._ Blaene-Avon, Blaen-Ayron, Blaen-Hounddu (river sources in Wales); Blaen-porth (the head of the harbour); Blaen-nant (of the brook); Blaen-Bylan, abbreviated from Blaen-pwll-glan (the top of pool bank); Blaen-Sillt, at the top of a small stream, the Sillt, in Wales; Blaen-afon (of the river). [Sidenote: BLAIR, BLAR (Gadhelic),] a plain, originally a battle-field; _e.g._ Blair-Athole, Blair-Logie, Blair-Gowrie (the battle-field in these districts); Blairmore (the great); Blaircreen (the little plain); Blairdaff (the plain of the oxen, _daimh_); Blair-burn (of the stream); Blair-craig (of the rock); Blair-linne (of the pool); Blair-beth (of birches); Blair-ingone (the field of spears), in Perthshire; Blair-glass (gray plain); Blarney (little field), in Ireland; Blair-Drummond, Blair-Adam, modern places named after persons. [Sidenote: BLANC (Fr.), BLANCO (Span.), BIANCO (It.), BRANCO (Port.), BLANC (A.S.), BLANK (Ger.),] white; _e.g._ Mont-Blanc, Cape-blanco, Sierra-blanca (white mountain-ridge); Castella-bianca (white castle); Villa-bianca (white town); Blankenburg (white town); Blankenham (white dwelling); Blankenhavn, Blankenloch, Blankenrath, Blankenese (white haven, place, wood-clearing, cape), in Germany; Bianchi-mandri (white sheep-folds), in Sicily; Branco (the white stream), in Brazil; Los-Brancos (the white mountains); Cata-branca (the white cove); Casa-branca (the white house), in Brazil. [Sidenote: BLISKO (Sclav.),] near; _e.g._ Bliesdorf, Bliesendorf, Blieskendorf (near village); Bliskau (near meadow). [Sidenote: BLOTO, BLATT (Sclav.),] a marsh; _e.g._ Blotto, Blottnitz (marshy land); Wirchen-blatt (high marsh); Sa-blatt, Sablater, Zablatt (behind the marsh); Na-blatt (near the marsh). In some cases the _b_ in this word is changed into _p_, as in Plotsk and Plattkow (the marshy place); Plattensee or Balaton (the lake in the marshy land). [Sidenote: BOCA (Span., Port., and It.),] a mouth--in topography, the narrow entrance of a river or bay; _e.g._ Boca-grande, Boca-chica (great and little channel), in South America; La Bochetta (the little opening), a mountain pass in the Apennines; Desemboque (the river mouth), in Brazil. [Sidenote: BOD (Cym.-Cel.),] a dwelling; _e.g._ Bodmin, in Cornwall, corrupt. from _Bodminian_ (the dwelling of monks); Bodffaris (the site of Varis), the old Roman station on the road to Chester; Hafod, the name of several places in Wales, corrupt. from Hafbod (a summer residence); Bosher or Bosherston, corrupt. from _Bod_ and _hir_, long (the long ridge abode), in Wales. [Sidenote: BODDEN (Teut.), BOD (Scand.),] a bay, the ocean swell; _e.g._ Bodden (an arm of the sea which divides the island of Rugen from Pomerania); Bodden-ness (the headland of the bay), on the east coast of Scotland. [Sidenote: BODEN (Ger.),]