(v. i.) To flower; to blossom; to bloom.
(v. t.) To cause to blossom; to put forth (blossoms or flowers).
(n.) A blossom; a flower; also, a state of blossoming; a mass of
blossoms.
(n.) A forcible stroke with the hand, fist, or some instrument, as
a rod, a club, an ax, or a sword.
(n.) A sudden or forcible act or effort; an assault.
(n.) The infliction of evil; a sudden calamity; something which
produces mental, physical, or financial suffering or loss (esp. when
sudden); a buffet.
(v. i.) To produce a current of air; to move, as air, esp. to move
rapidly or with power; as, the wind blows.
(v. i.) To send forth a forcible current of air, as from the mouth
or from a pair of bellows.
(v. i.) To breathe hard or quick; to pant; to puff.
(v. i.) To sound on being blown into, as a trumpet.
(v. i.) To spout water, etc., from the blowholes, as a whale.
(v. i.) To be carried or moved by the wind; as, the dust blows in
from the street.
(v. i.) To talk loudly; to boast; to storm.
(v. t.) To force a current of air upon with the mouth, or by other
means; as, to blow the fire.
(v. t.) To drive by a current air; to impel; as, the tempest blew
the ship ashore.
(v. t.) 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.
(v. t.) To clear of contents by forcing air through; as, to blow
an egg; to blow one's nose.
(v. t.) To burst, shatter, or destroy by an explosion; -- usually
with up, down, open, or similar adverb; as, to blow up a building.
(v. t.) To spread by report; to publish; to disclose.
(v. t.) To form by inflation; to swell by injecting air; as, to
blow bubbles; to blow glass.
(v. t.) To inflate, as with pride; to puff up.
(v. t.) To put out of breath; to cause to blow from fatigue; as,
to blow a horse.
(v. t.) To deposit eggs or larvae upon, or in (meat, etc.).
(n.) A blowing, esp., a violent blowing of the wind; a gale; as, a
heavy blow came on, and the ship put back to port.
(n.) 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.
(n.) The spouting of a whale.
(n.) A single heat or operation of the Bessemer converter.
(n.) An egg, or a larva, deposited by a fly on or in flesh, or the
act of depositing it.
