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Out of breath; tired; exhausted. "Their horses much blown." Sir W. Scott.

A blowgun; a blowtube. Blowpipe analysis (Chem.), analysis by means of the blowpipe. -- Blowpipe reaction (Chem.), the characteristic behavior of a substance subjected to a test by means of the blowpipe.

A child's game. [Obs.]

See Blowze.

A blossoming; a bloom. [Obs. or Archaic] "In the blowth and bud." Sir W. Raleigh.

A blowgun. Tylor.

Windy; as, blowy weather; a blowy upland.

A ruddy, fat-faced woman; a wench. [Obs.] Shak.

Having high color from exposure to the weather; ruddy-faced; blowzy; disordered. Huge women blowzed with health and wind. Tennyson.

Coarse and ruddy-faced; fat and ruddy; high colored; frowzy.

A kind of plow, driven by the breast of the workman; -- used to cut or pare turf.

A thatched or tiled house or cottage, of a single story, usually surrounded by a veranda. [India]

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

e of feathers; naked; unfledged. An in the leafy summit, spied a nest, Which, o'er the callow young, a sparrow pressed. Dryden.

An annual variety of Brassica oleracea, or cabbage of which the cluster of young flower stalks and buds is eaten as a vegetable.

Spice clove. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A man of coarse nature and manners; an awkward fellow; an illbred person; a boor. Sir P. Sidney.

Behavior or manners of a clown; clownery. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

Clownishness. L'Estrange.

Of or resembling a clown, or characteristic of a clown; ungainly; awkward. "Clownish hands." Spenser. "Clownish mimic." Prior. -- Clown"ish*ly, adv.