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t of wind. And see where surly Winter passes off, Far to the north, and calls his ruffian blasts; His blasts obey, and quit the howling hill. Thomson.

A lamp provided with some arrangement for intensifying combustion by means of a blast.

of a steam engine, or any pipe delivering steam or air, when so constructed as to cause a blast.

Blighted; withered. Upon this blasted heath. Shak.

The structureless, protoplasmic tissue of the embryo; the primitive basis of an organ yet unformed, from which it grows.

Relating to the blastema; rudimentary.

Connected with, or proceeding from, the blastema; blastemal.

One who, or that which, blasts or destroys.

A small, clear space in the segments of the ovum, the precursor of the nucleus.

A blast; destruction by a blast, or by some pernicious cause. I have smitten you with blasting and mildew. Amos iv. 9.

A sudden stroke or injury produced by some destructive cause. [Obs.] Shak.

Germinating inside the pericarp, as the mangrove. Brande & C.

The cavity of the blastosphere, or segmentation cavity.

The germinal vesicle.

The germinal membrane in an ovum, from which the embryo is developed.

Of or pertaining to the blastoderm.

Multiplication or increase by gemmation or budding.

One of the Blastoidea.

One of the divisions of Crinoidea found fossil in paleozoic rocks; pentremites. They are so named on account of their budlike form.

One of the segments first formed by the division of the ovum. Balfour.