Definition of puff

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Puff (v. t.) To cause to swell or dilate; to inflate; to ruffle with puffs; -- often with up; as, a bladder puffed with air..

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Puff :: Puff (n.) Anything light and filled with air.
Strout :: Strout (v. i.) To swell; to puff out; to project.
Whiff :: Whiff (v. t.) To throw out in whiffs; to consume in whiffs; to puff.
Fuffy :: Fuffy (a.) Light; puffy.
Bottle-nose :: Bottle-nose (n.) The puffin.
Peridium :: Peridium (n.) The envelope or coat of certain fungi, such as the puffballs and earthstars..
Huff :: Huff (v. t.) To swell; to enlarge; to puff up; as, huffed up with air..
Shearwater :: Shearwater (n.) Any one of numerous species of long-winged oceanic birds of the genus Puffinus and related genera. They are allied to the petrels, but are larger. The Manx shearwater (P. Anglorum), the dusky shearwater (P. obscurus), and the greater shearwater (P. major), are well-known species of the North Atlantic. See Hagdon..
Turgent :: Turgent (a.) Rising into a tumor, or a puffy state; swelling; tumid; as, turgent humors..
Inflated :: Inflated (a.) Turgid; swelling; puffed up; bombastic; pompous; as, an inflated style..
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..
Blow :: Blow (v. t.) To inflate, as with pride; to puff up..
Whisk :: Whisk (n.) The act of whisking; a rapid, sweeping motion, as of something light; a sudden motion or quick puff..
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..
Puff :: Puff (n.) A sudden and single emission of breath from the mouth; hence, any sudden or short blast of wind; a slight gust; a whiff..
Puff-legged :: Puff-legged (a.) Having a conspicuous tuft of feathers on the legs.
Puffer :: Puffer (n.) A kier.
Puffball :: Puffball (n.) A kind of ball-shaped fungus (Lycoperdon giganteum, and other species of the same genus) full of dustlike spores when ripe; -- called also bullfist, bullfice, puckfist, puff, and puffin..
Puff :: Puff (n.) A utensil of the toilet for dusting the skin or hair with powder.
Fungus :: Fungus (n.) Any one of the Fungi, a large and very complex group of thallophytes of low organization, -- the molds, mildews, rusts, smuts, mushrooms, toadstools, puff balls, and the allies of each..
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