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To inflate; to puff up; to make vain. Dryden.

ize, as by the presence of water, serum, etc.; turgid; swollen; as, a bloated face. Also, puffed up with pride; pompous.

To breathe hard or quick; to pant; to puff. Here is Mistress Page at the door, sweating and blowing. Shak.

A small fish of the Atlantic coast (Tetrodon turgidus); the puffer.

Swollen; inflated; distended; puffed up, as cattle when gorged with green food which develops gas.

To swell; to puff out, as with weeping. [Obs.]

To swell; to puff. Holland.

Swollen; puffed out. Thin, and boln out like a sail. B. Jonson.

The puffin.

A kind of fungus. See Puffball.

ood, or other material, worn in the front of a corset. Her long slit sleeves, stiff busk, puff verdingall, Is all that makes her thus angelical. Marston.

As much as will fill a cap. A capful of wind (Naut.), a light puff of wind.

y air which ruffles the surface of the water during a calm, or the ripples made by such a puff of air.

Fat or puffed out in the cheeks.

An apparatus for the separation of dry comminuted ore, by exposing it to intermittent puffs of air. Knight.

The puffin.

To fill with breath; to puff up. Sir T. Herbert.

The act of filling with wind; a breathing or puffing out; a puff, as of wind. A soft efflation of celestial fire. Parnell.

To breathe or puff out. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

he spirit of; to fill with confidence or exultation; to elevate or flush with success; to puff up; to make proud. Foolishly elated by spiritual pride. Warburton. You ought not be elated at the chance mishaps of your enemies. Jowett (Thucyd. ).