Definition of puff

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Puff (n.) To blow, as an expression of scorn; -- with at..

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Puffy :: Puffy (a.) Swelled with air, or any soft matter; tumid with a soft substance; bloated; fleshy; as, a puffy tumor..
Rat :: Rat (n.) A round and tapering mass of hair, or similar material, used by women to support the puffs and rolls of their natural hair..
Swell :: Swell (v. i.) To be puffed up or bloated; as, to swell with pride..
Baggy :: Baggy (a.) Resembling a bag; loose or puffed out, or pendent, like a bag; flabby; as, baggy trousers; baggy cheeks..
Bullfice :: Bullfice (n.) A kind of fungus. See Puffball.
Whiff :: Whiff (v. t.) To throw out in whiffs; to consume in whiffs; to puff.
Vol-au-vent :: Vol-au-vent (n.) A light puff paste, with a raised border, filled, after baking, usually with a ragout of fowl, game, or fish..
Astrut :: Astrut (a. & adv.) Sticking out, or puffed out; swelling; in a swelling manner..
Yeast :: Yeast (n.) The foam, or troth (top yeast), or the sediment (bottom yeast), of beer or other in fermentation, which contains the yeast plant or its spores, and under certain conditions produces fermentation in saccharine or farinaceous substances; a preparation used for raising dough for bread or cakes, and making it light and puffy; barm; ferment..
Bloat :: Bloat (v. i.) To grow turgid as by effusion of liquid in the cellular tissue; to puff out; to swell.
Puff :: Puff (n.) To breathe quick and hard, or with puffs, as after violent exertion..
Tumid :: Tumid (a.) Swelling in sound or sense; pompous; puffy; inflated; bombastic; falsely sublime; turgid; as, a tumid expression; a tumid style..
Coulterneb :: Coulterneb (n.) The puffin.
Swell :: Swell (v. t.) To raise to arrogance; to puff up; to inflate; as, to be swelled with pride or haughtiness..
Puff :: Puff (v. t.) To drive with a puff, or with puffs..
Porpoise :: Porpoise (n.) Any small cetacean of the genus Phocaena, especially P. communis, or P. phocaena, of Europe, and the closely allied American species (P. Americana). The color is dusky or blackish above, paler beneath. They are closely allied to the dolphins, but have a shorter snout. Called also harbor porpoise, herring hag, puffing pig, and snuffer..
Puffin :: Puffin (n.) The puffball.
Puffer :: Puffer (n.) One who is employed by the owner or seller of goods sold at suction to bid up the price; a by-bidder.
Puff :: Puff (v. t.) To praise with exaggeration; to flatter; to call public attention to by praises; to praise unduly.
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..
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