BPage 188
- English Word Blow Definition To form by inflation; to swell by injecting air; as, to blow bubbles; to blow glass.
- English Word Blow Definition To inflate, as with pride; to puff up.
- English Word Blow Definition To put out of breath; to cause to blow from fatigue; as, to blow a horse.
- English Word Blow Definition To deposit eggs or larvae upon, or in (meat, etc.).
- English Word Blow Definition A blowing, esp., a violent blowing of the wind; a gale; as, a heavy blow came on, and the ship put back to port.
- English Word Blow Definition The act of forcing air from the mouth, or through or from some instrument; as, to give a hard blow on a whistle or horn; to give the fire a blow with the bellows.
- English Word Blow Definition The spouting of a whale.
- English Word Blow Definition A single heat or operation of the Bessemer converter.
- English Word Blow Definition An egg, or a larva, deposited by a fly on or in flesh, or the act of depositing it.
- English Word Blow valve Definition See Snifting valve.
- English Word Blow-off Definition A blowing off steam, water, etc.;
- English Word Blow-off Definition as, a blow-off cock or pipe.
- English Word Blow-off Definition An outburst of temper or excitement.
- English Word Blow-out Definition The cleaning of the flues of a boiler from scale, etc., by a blast of steam.
- English Word Blowball Definition The downy seed head of a dandelion, which children delight to blow away.
- English Word Blowen Definition Alt. of Blowess
- English Word Blower Definition One who, or that which, blows.
- English Word Blower Definition A device for producing a current of air; as: (a) A metal plate temporarily placed before the upper part of a grate or open fire. (b) A machine for producing an artificial blast or current of air by pressure, as for increasing the draft of a furnace, ventilating a building or shaft, cleansing gram, etc.
- English Word Blower Definition A blowing out or excessive discharge of gas from a hole or fissure in a mine.
- English Word Blower Definition The whale; -- so called by seamen, from the circumstance of its spouting up a column of water.
- English Word Blower Definition A small fish of the Atlantic coast (Tetrodon turgidus); the puffer.
- English Word Blower Definition A braggart, or loud talker.
- English Word Blowess Definition A prostitute; a courtesan; a strumpet.
- English Word Blowfly Definition Any species of fly of the genus Musca that deposits its eggs or young larvae (called flyblows and maggots) upon meat or other animal products.
- English Word Blowgun Definition A tube, as of cane or reed, sometimes twelve feet long, through which an arrow or other projectile may be impelled by the force of the breath. It is a weapon much used by certain Indians of America and the West Indies; -- called also blowpipe, and blowtube. See Sumpitan.
- English Word Blowhole Definition A cavern in a cliff, at the water level, opening to the air at its farther extremity, so that the waters rush in with each surge and rise in a lofty jet from the extremity.
- English Word Blowhole Definition A nostril or spiracle in the top of the head of a whale or other cetacean.
- English Word Blowhole Definition A hole in the ice to which whales, seals, etc., come to breathe.
- English Word Blowhole Definition An air hole in a casting.
- English Word Blowing Definition of Blow