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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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55 words match “BLOWN”

BLOWN p. 5 definitions

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

Tainted or contaminated with flyblows; damaged; foul. Wherever flyblown reputations were assembled. Thackeray.

FULL-BLOWN a. 2 definitions

Fully expanded, as a blossom; as, a full-bloun rose. Denham.

Inflated, as with conceit.

Blown in or into. [Obs.]

Inflated with wind. Dryden.

excess, or beyond what is merited. Think'st thou the fiery fever will go out With titles blown from adulation Shak.

ull. 2 Kings iv. 4. But soft! but soft! aside: here comes the king. Shak. The flames were blown aside. Dryden.

An instrument blown with a reed, and resembling a clarinet, but of much greater compass, embracing nearly four octaves.

BLOW v. 4 definitions

To sound on being blown into, as a trumpet. There let the pealing organ blow. Milton.

A thick knob or protuberance left on glass by the end of the pipe through which it was blown.

r, before letting go the anchor. -- Whistling buoy, a buoy fitted with a whistle that is blown by the action of the waves.

A note blown on the horn to encourage the hounds.

A chinese reed instrument, with tubes, blown by the mouth.

A wind instrument, blown by a single reed, of richer and fuller tone than the oboe, which has a double reed. It is the leading instrument in a military band.

t limitation or remainder; quite; perfectly; wholly; entirely. "Domestic broils clean overblown." Shak. "Clean contrary." Milton. All the people were passed clean over Jordan. Josh. iii. 17.

excessive grief of anxiety; insanity; madness. [Obs.] That unmatched form and feature of blown youth Blasted with ecstasy. Shak. Our words will but increase his ecstasy. Marlowe.

EXSUFFLICATE a.

Empty; frivolous. [A Shakespearean word only once used.] Such exsufflicate and blown surmises. Shak. (Oth. iii. 3, 182).

g grain, by moving which the grain is tossed and agitated, and the chaff is separated and blown away.

and, pushing, loudly roar; Their dewlaps and their sides are batDryden. As when a billow, blown against, Falls back, the voice with which I fenced A little ceased, but recommenced. Tennyson.