Definition of puff

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Puff (n.) A utensil of the toilet for dusting the skin or hair with powder.

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Puff :: Puff (n.) To breathe in a swelling, inflated, or pompous manner; hence, to assume importance..
Bellied :: Bellied (a.) Having (such) a belly; puffed out; -- used in composition; as, pot-bellied; shad-bellied..
Fuffy :: Fuffy (a.) Light; puffy.
Cat''s-paw :: Cat's-paw (n.) A light transitory air which ruffles the surface of the water during a calm, or the ripples made by such a puff of air..
Hagdon :: Hagdon (n.) One of several species of sea birds of the genus Puffinus; esp., P. major, the greater shearwarter, and P. Stricklandi, the black hagdon or sooty shearwater; -- called also hagdown, haglin, and hag. See Shearwater..
Rise :: Rise (v.) To swell or puff up in the process of fermentation; to become light, as dough, and the like..
Elate :: Elate (v. t.) To exalt the spirit of; to fill with confidence or exultation; to elevate or flush with success; to puff up; to make proud.
Adder :: Adder (n.) In America, the term is commonly applied to several harmless snakes, as the milk adder, puffing adder, etc..
Unarm :: Unarm (v. i.) To puff off, or lay down, one's arms or armor..
Puffy :: Puffy (a.) Swelled with air, or any soft matter; tumid with a soft substance; bloated; fleshy; as, a puffy tumor..
Puffy :: Puffy (a.) Hence, inflated; bombastic; as, a puffy style..
Puffin :: Puffin (n.) A sort of apple.
Peridium :: Peridium (n.) The envelope or coat of certain fungi, such as the puffballs and earthstars..
Effume :: Effume (v. t.) To breathe or puff out.
Fozy :: Fozy (a.) Spongy; soft; fat and puffy.
Smoke :: Smoke (v. t.) To inhale and puff out the smoke of, as tobacco; to burn or use in smoking; as, to smoke a pipe or a cigar..
Puff :: Puff (v. t.) To drive with a puff, or with puffs..
Willock :: Willock (n.) The puffin.
Bollen :: Bollen (a.) Swollen; puffed out.
Puckfist :: Puckfist (n.) A puffball.
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