Blĕss'ing, n.
n. [A-S. blētsung. See BLESS.]
Sense 1. A means of happiness; a gift, benefit, or advantage; that which promotes prosperity and welfare.
Nature's full blessings would be well dispensed. Milton.
Sense 2. A wish of happiness pronounced; a prayer imploring happiness upon another; benediction.
This is the blessing wherewith Moses, the man of God, blessed the children of Israel. Deut. xxxiii. 1.
Sense 3. (Bib.) A gift, accompanied with the kind wishes of the giver.
Take, I pray thee, my blessing that is brought to thee. Gen. xxxiii. 11.