English English Dictionary

A blowing out or excessive discharge of gas from a hole or fissure in a mine.

The whale; -- so called by seamen, from the circumstance of its spouting up a column of water.

A small fish of the Atlantic coast (Tetrodon turgidus); the puffer.

A braggart, or loud talker.

A prostitute; a courtesan; a strumpet.

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.

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.

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.

A nostril or spiracle in the top of the head of a whale or other cetacean.

A hole in the ice to which whales, seals, etc., come to breathe.

An air hole in a casting.

of Blow

of Blow

Opened; in blossom or having blossomed, as a flower.

Covered with the eggs and larvae of flies; fly blown.

Out of breath; tired; exhausted.

Stale; worthless.

of Blow

of Blow

Swollen; inflated; distended; puffed up, as cattle when gorged with green food which develops gas.