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To blow; to blow on a trumpet. [Obs.] Toke his blake trumpe faste And gan to puffen and to blaste. Chaucer.

An edifice or structure of heavy timbers or logs for military defense, having its sides loopholed for musketry, and often an upper story projecting over the lower, or so placed upon it as to have its sides make an angle wit the sides of the lower story, thus enabling the defenders to fire downward, and in all direction…

lly with out; as, to blot out a word or a sentence. Often figuratively; as, to blot out offenses. One act like this blots out a thousand crimes. Dryden.

losion; as, to blow up a fort. (e) To scold violently; as, to blow up a person for some offense. [Colloq.] I have blown him up well -- nobody can say I wink at what he does. G. Eliot. To blow upon. (a) To blast; to taint; to bring into discredit; to render stale, unsavory, or worthless. (b) To inform against. [Colloq.]…

A short stick, with one end loaded, or thicker and heavier that the other, used as an offensive weapon.

. "Bluff King Hal." Sir W. Scott. There is indeed a bluff pertinacity which is a proper defense in a moment of surprise. I. Taylor.

A fencer's foil. [Obs.]

shing like the morn. Milton. In the presence of the shameless and unblushing, the young offender is ashamed to blush. Buckminster. He would stroke The head of modest and ingenuous worth, That blushed at its own praise. Cowper.

In Persia, a punishment of capital offenders, by laying them on the back in a covered boat, where they are left to perish.

A kind of under waist stiffened with whalebone, etc., worn esp. by women; a corset; stays.

A guard to protect or defend the person; a lifeguard.

A conflict; contest; attempt; trial; a set-to at anything; as, a fencing bout; a drinking bout. The gentleman will, for his honor's sake, have one bout with you; he can not by the duello avoid it. Shak.

To expurgate, as a book, by omitting or modifying the parts considered offensive.

A frame or fender of rope or junk, laid out at the sides or bows of a vessel to secure it from injury by floating ice.

A string used by the Turks for strangling offenders. Bowstring bridge, a bridge formed of an arch of timber or iron, often braced, the thrust of which is resisted by a tie forming a chord of the arch. -- Bowstring girder, an arched beam strengthened by a tie connecting its two ends. -- Bowstring hemp (Bot.), the tena…

A piece of defensive armor for the arm. Johnson.

A form of woman's underwaist stiffened with whalebones, or the like, and worn to support the breasts.

Apt to break fences or to break out of pasture; unruly; as, breachy cattle.

A plate of metal covering the breast as defensive armor. Before his old rusty breastplate could be scoured, and his cracked headpiece mended. Swift.

A defensive work of moderate height, hastily thrown up, of earth or other material.