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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Swelling :: Swellfish (n.) Any plectognath fish that dilates itself, as the bur fish, puffer, or diodon..
Puff :: Puff (a.) Puffed up; vain.
Fozy :: Fozy (a.) Spongy; soft; fat and puffy.
Pluff :: Pluff (v. t.) To throw out, as smoke, dust, etc., in puffs..
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..
Strout :: Strout (v. i.) To swell; to puff out; to project.
Vain :: Vain (superl.) Proud of petty things, or of trifling attainments; having a high opinion of one's own accomplishments with slight reason; conceited; puffed up; inflated..
Puffy :: Puffy (a.) Hence, inflated; bombastic; as, a puffy style..
Rise :: Rise (v.) To swell or puff up in the process of fermentation; to become light, as dough, and the like..
Gasteromycetes :: Gasteromycetes (n. pl.) An order of fungi, in which the spores are borne inside a sac called the peridium, as in the puffballs..
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..
Blow :: Blow (v. t.) To inflate, as with pride; to puff up..
Puffer :: Puffer (n.) Any plectognath fish which inflates its body, as the species of Tetrodon and Diodon; -- called also blower, puff-fish, swellfish, and globefish..
Lycoperdon :: Lycoperdon (n.) A genus of fungi, remarkable for the great quantity of spores, forming a fine dust, which is thrown out like smoke when the plant is compressed or burst; puffball..
Tomnoddy :: Tomnoddy (n.) A sea bird, the puffin..
Tumid :: Tumid (a.) Swelling in sound or sense; pompous; puffy; inflated; bombastic; falsely sublime; turgid; as, a tumid expression; a tumid style..
Puffy :: Puffy (a.) Swelled with air, or any soft matter; tumid with a soft substance; bloated; fleshy; as, a puffy tumor..
Bollen :: Bollen (a.) Swollen; puffed out.
Balloon :: Balloon (v. i.) To expand, or puff out, like a balloon..
Whiff :: Whiff (v. i.) To emit whiffs, as of smoke; to puff..
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