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A side or incidental blow; an accidental blow. With their by-blows they did split the very stones in pieces. Bunyan.

A mortal or crushing blow; a stroke or event which kills or destroys. The deathblow of my hope. Byron.

h fly does on meat; to cause to be maggoty; hence, to taint or contaminate, as if with flyblows. Bp. Srillingfleet.

Tainted or contaminated with flyblows; damaged; foul. Wherever flyblown reputations were assembled. Thackeray.

Fully expanded, as a blossom; as, a full-bloun rose. Denham.

Inflated, as with conceit.

One who, or that which, blows a horn.

Blown in or into. [Obs.]

Inflated with wind. Dryden.

To blow over, or be subdued. [R.] Spenser.

Of the delicate purplish pink color likened to that of peach blooms; -- applied esp. to a Chinese porcelain, small specimens of which bring great prices in the Western countries.

To blow up; as, the wind upblows from the sea. [Obs.] Spenser.

Same as Whitlow grass, under Whitlow.

"At a birth"; "In a word"; "At a blow". Shak.

t condemnation; reviling. The two parties, after exchanging a good deal of abuse, came to blows. Macaulay.

A ceremony formerly used in conferring knighthood, consisting am embrace, and a slight blow on the shoulders with the flat blade of a sword.

dicine or a remedy; to give, as a dose or something beneficial or suitable. Extended to a blow, a reproof, etc. A noxious drug had been administered to him. Macaulay.

excess, or beyond what is merited. Think'st thou the fiery fever will go out With titles blown from adulation Shak.

A blowing or breathing on; inspiration.

right; the state of being frightened; sudden fear or alarm. [Archaic] Passionate words or blows . . . fill the child's mind with terror and affrightment. Locke.