Vocabulary : Blow to Blowing

Blow : To flower; to blossom; to bloom. ;; To cause to blossom; to put forth (blossoms or flowers). ;; A blossom; a flower; also, a state of blossoming; a mass of blossoms. ;; 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. ;; 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. ;; To force a current of air upon with the mouth, or by other means; as, to blow the fire. ;; To
Blow valve : See Snifting valve.
Blowball : The downy seed head of a dandelion, which children delight to blow away.
Blowen : Alt. of Blowess
Blower : One who, or that which, blows. ;; 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. ;; 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.

Blowess : A prostitute; a courtesan; a strumpet.
Blowfly : 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.
Blowgun : 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.
Blowhole : 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.
Blowing : of Blow ;; of Blow