BPage 281
- English Word Blow Definition To sound on being blown into, as a trumpet.
- English Word Blow Definition To spout water, etc., from the blowholes, as a whale.
- English Word Blow Definition To be carried or moved by the wind; as, the dust blows in from the street.
- English Word Blow Definition To talk loudly; to boast; to storm.
- English Word Blow Definition To force a current of air upon with the mouth, or by other means; as, to blow the fire.
- English Word Blow Definition To drive by a current air; to impel; as, the tempest blew the ship ashore.
- English Word Blow Definition 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.
- English Word Blow Definition To clear of contents by forcing air through; as, to blow an egg; to blow one's nose.
- English Word Blow Definition To burst, shatter, or destroy by an explosion; -- usually with up, down, open, or similar adverb; as, to blow up a building.
- English Word Blow Definition To spread by report; to publish; to disclose.
- 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.