Definition of blast

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Blast (n.) A forcible stream of air from an orifice, as from a bellows, the mouth, etc. Hence: The continuous blowing to which one charge of ore or metal is subjected in a furnace; as, to melt so many tons of iron at a blast..

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Ectoblast :: Ectoblast (n.) The outer layer of the blastoderm; the epiblast; the ectoderm.
Herakline :: Herakline (n.) A picrate compound, used as an explosive in blasting..
Blight :: Blight (n.) Mildew; decay; anything nipping or blasting; -- applied as a general name to various injuries or diseases of plants, causing the whole or a part to wither, whether occasioned by insects, fungi, or atmospheric influences..
Stormy :: Stormwind (n.) A heavy wind; a wind that brings a storm; the blast of a storm.
Proliferous :: Proliferous (a.) Producing sexual zooids by budding; -- said of the blastostyle of a hydroid.
Blastoid :: Blastoid (n.) One of the Blastoidea.
Bioplast :: Bioplast (n.) A tiny mass of bioplasm, in itself a living unit and having formative power, as a living white blood corpuscle; bioblast..
Blastogenesis :: Blastogenesis (n.) Multiplication or increase by gemmation or budding.
Enterocoele :: Enterocoele (n.) A perivisceral cavity which arises as an outgrowth or outgrowths from the digestive tract; distinguished from a schizocoele, which arises by a splitting of the mesoblast of the embryo..
Gonotheca :: Gonotheca (n.) A capsule developed on certain hydroids (Thecaphora), inclosing the blastostyle upon which the medusoid buds or gonophores are developed; -- called also gonangium, and teleophore. See Hydroidea, and Illust. of Campanularian..
Blastophoric :: Blastophoric (a.) Relating to the blastophore.
Tubularida :: Tubularida (n. pl.) An extensive division of Hydroidea; the tubularians; -- called also Athecata, Gymnoblastea, and Tubulariae..
Blastoidea :: Blastoidea (n. pl.) One of the divisions of Crinoidea found fossil in paleozoic rocks; pentremites. They are so named on account of their budlike form.
Blastide :: Blastide (n.) A small, clear space in the segments of the ovum, the precursor of the nucleus..
Odontoblast :: Odontoblast (n.) One of the cells which secrete the chitinous teeth of Mollusca.
Blastemata :: Blastemata (pl. ) of Blastem.
Hypoblast :: Hypoblast (n.) The inner or lower layer of the blastoderm; -- called also endoderm, entoderm, and sometimes hypoderm. See Illust. of Blastoderm, Delamination, and Ectoderm..
Rig :: Rig (n.) A blast of wind.
Entosthoblast :: Entosthoblast (n.) The granule within the nucleolus or entoblast of a nucleated cell.
Gymnoblastea :: Gymnoblastea (n. pl.) The Athecata; -- so called because the medusoid buds are not inclosed in a capsule.
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