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A blowing together, as of many instruments in a concert, or of many fires in a foundry. [R.] Bacon.

To reduce from an inflated condition.

A blowing apart or away. [Obs.] Bailey.

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 exorcise or renounce by blowing.

A blast from beneath. [Obs.] Bacon.

That may be inflated.

Blown in; inflated. Chaucer.

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

One who, or that which, inflates; as, the inflaters of the stock exchange.

In a manner tending to inflate.

The act or process of inflating, or the state of being inflated, as with air or gas; distention; expansion; enlargement. Boyle.

One who favors an increased or very large issue of paper money. [U.S.]

A blowing or breathing into; inflation; inspiration. The divine breath that blows the nostrils out To ineffable inflatus. Mrs. Browning.

To blow upon; to breath upon or into; to use insufflation upon.

The act of breathing on or into anything; especially:

To exceed in flattering.

To blow through. [Obs.] Harvey.

The act of perflating. [Obs.] Woodward.