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To flower; to blossom; to bloom. |
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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. |
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A sudden or forcible act or effort; an assault. |
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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. |
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To send forth a forcible current of air, as from the mouth
or from a pair of bellows. |
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To breathe hard or quick; to pant; to puff. |
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To sound on being blown into, as a trumpet. |
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To spout water, etc., from the blowholes, as a whale. |
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To be carried or moved by the wind; as, the dust blows in
from the street. |
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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. |
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To drive by a current air; to impel; as, the tempest blew
the ship ashore. |
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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. |
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To clear of contents by forcing air through; as, to blow
an egg; to blow one's nose. |
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To burst, shatter, or destroy by an explosion; -- usually
with up, down, open, or similar adverb; as, to blow up a building. |
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To spread by report; to publish; to disclose. |
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To form by inflation; to swell by injecting air; as, to
blow bubbles; to blow glass. |
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To inflate, as with pride; to puff up. |
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To put out of breath; to cause to blow from fatigue; as,
to blow a horse. |
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To deposit eggs or larvae 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. |
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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. |
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The spouting of a whale. |
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A single heat or operation of the Bessemer converter. |
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An egg, or a larva, deposited by a fly on or in flesh, or the
act of depositing it. |
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