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A plant of the genus Campanula; -- so named from its bell- shaped flowers.

To make a hollow, loud noise, as an enraged bull.

One who, or that which, bellows.

top, draws in air through a valve and expels it through a tube for various purposes, as blowing fires, ventilating mines, or filling the pipes of an organ with wind. Bellows camera, in photography, a form of camera, which can be drawn out like an accordion or bellows. -- Hydrostatic bellows. See Hydrostatic. -- A pa…

fish (Centriscus scolopax), distinguished by a long tubular snout, like the pipe of a bellows; -- called also trumpet fish, and snipe fish.

Under, or lower in place; beneath not so high; as, below the moon; below the knee. Shak.

To treat as a lout; to talk abusively to. [Obs.] Camden.

e sea or other water, caused usually by violent wind. Whom the winds waft where'er the billows roll. Cowper.

Of or pertaining to billows; swelling or swollen into large waves; full of billows or surges; resembling billows. And whitening down the many-tinctured stream, Descends the billowy foam. Thomson.

A genus of bulbous plants, natives of Southern Africa, named Hæmanthus, of the Amaryllis family. The juice of H. toxicarius is used by the Hottentots to poison their arrows.

To flower; to blossom; to bloom. How blows the citron grove. Milton.

See Snifting valve.

A blowing off steam, water, etc.; -- Also, adj.

The cleaning of the flues of a boiler from scale, etc., by a blast of steam.

The downy seed head of a dandelion, which children delight to blow away. B. Jonson.

A prostitute; a courtesan; a strumpet. [Low] Smart.

One who, or that which, blows.

Any species of fly of the genus Musca that deposits its eggs or young larvæ (called flyblows and maggots) upon meat or other animal products.

is a weapon much used by certain Indians of America and the West Indies; -- called also blowpipe, and blowtube. See Sumpitan.

A cavern in a cliff, at the water level, opening to the air at its farther extremity, so that the waters rush in with each surge and rise in a lofty jet from the extremity.