To cause to blossom; to put
forth (blossoms or flowers).
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A blossom; a
flower; also, a state of blossoming; a mass of blossoms.
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A forcible stroke with the hand,
fist, or some instrument, as a rod, a club, an ax, or a sword.
A sudden or forcible act or effort; an
assault.
The infliction of evil; a sudden calamity;
something which produces mental, physical, or financial suffering or loss
(esp. when sudden); a buffet.
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To produce a current of air; to move, as
air, esp. to move rapidly or with power; as, the wind
blows.
To send forth a forcible current of air, as from
the mouth or from a pair of bellows.
To breathe hard or quick; to pant; to
puff.
To sound on being blown into, as a
trumpet.
To spout water, etc., from the blowholes, as a
whale.
To be carried or moved by the wind; as, the dust
blows in from the street.
To talk loudly; to boast; to storm.
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To force
a current of air upon with the mouth, or by other means; as, to blow
the fire.
To drive by a current air; to impel; as, the
tempest blew the ship ashore.
To cause air to pass through by the action of
the mouth, or otherwise; to cause to sound, as a wind instrument; as, to
blow a trumpet; to blow an organ.
To clear of contents by forcing air through; as,
to blow an egg; to blow one's nose.
To burst, shatter, or destroy by an explosion; -
- usually with up, down, open, or similar adverb; as,
to blow up a building.
To spread by report; to publish; to
disclose.
To form by inflation; to swell by injecting air;
as, to blow bubbles; to blow glass.
To inflate, as with pride; to puff up.
To put out of breath; to cause to blow from
fatigue; as, to blow a horse.
To deposit eggs or larvæ upon, or in
(meat, etc.).
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A
blowing, esp., a violent blowing of the wind; a gale; as, a heavy
blow came on, and the ship put back to port.
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.
The spouting of a whale.
A single heat or operation of
the Bessemer converter.
An egg, or a larva, deposited by a fly on or in
flesh, or the act of depositing it.
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