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Liable to be blown about. Bailey.

. Nor flush with shame the passing virgin's cheek. Gay. Sudden a thought came like a full-blown rose, Flushing his brow. Keats.

by keys which are opened by the fingers. The modern flute is closed at the upper end, and blown with the mouth at a lateral hole. The breathing flute's soft notes are heard around. Pope.

The hair grass (Agrostis scabra). So called from its light panicle, which is blown to great distances by the wind.

he incited Prusias to join in war, set before him the greatness of the Romans. Bacon. No blown ambition doth our arms incite. Shak.

Blown in; inflated. Chaucer.

Filled, as with air or gas; blown up; distended; as, a balloon inflated with gas.

Portland cement when thrown or blown into the recesses of carved stonework to intensify the shadows.

To lay down; to prostrate. Though bladed corn be lodged, and trees blown down. Shak. To lodge an information, to enter a formal complaint.

A name given to lichens of the genus Lecanora, sometimes blown into heaps in the deserts of Arabia and Africa, and gathered and used as food.

Having or causing mistrust, suspicions, or forebodings. Their light blown out in some mistrustful wood. Shak. -- Mis*trust"ful*ly, adv. -- Mis*trust"ful*ness, n.

, muslin of wool.] Muslin delaine. See under Muslin. -- Mousseline glass, a kind of thin blown glassware, such as wineglasses, etc.

A blown cylinder of glass which is afterward flattened out to make a sheet.

To blow away; to dissipate by wind, or as by wind. When this cloud of sorrow's overblown. Waller.

Glass threads or fibers formed by the wind from bits blown from frothy lava or from the tips of lava jets or from bits of liquid lava thrown into the air. It often collects in thick masses resembling tow.

Capable of being blown through. [Obs.]

f a flat wooden block with a long iron handle, used for flattening out split cylinders of blown glass.

ackney, a hired post horse. Sir H. Wotton. -- Post horn, a horn, or trumpet, carried and blown by a carrier of the public mail, or by a coachman. -- Post horse, a horse stationed, intended, or used for the post. -- Post hour, hour for posting letters. Dickens. -- Post office. (a) An office under governmental superi…

The name for numerous simple, but very irregular, melodies of the Swiss mountaineers, blown on a long tube called the Alpine horn, and sometimes sung.

[R.] High-kirtled for the chase, and what was shown Of maiden rondure, like the rose half-blown. Lowell.