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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.

t 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.

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.