Definition of blast

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Blast (v. t.) To injure, as by a noxious wind; to cause to wither; to stop or check the growth of, and prevent from fruit-bearing, by some pernicious influence; to blight; to shrivel..

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Cytoblastema :: Cytoblastema (n.) See Protoplasm.
Epiblast :: Epiblast (n.) The outer layer of the blastoderm; the ectoderm. See Blastoderm, Delamination..
Sarcoblast :: Sarcoblast (n.) A minute yellowish body present in the interior of certain rhizopods.
Somatopleure :: Somatopleure (n.) The outer, or parietal, one of the two lamellae into which the vertebrate blastoderm divides on either side of the notochord, and from which the walls of the body and the amnion are developed. See Splanchnopleure..
Stemmed :: Stem (v. t.) To ram, as clay, into a blasting hole..
Whirl-blast :: Whirl-blast (n.) A whirling blast or wind.
Blastocoele :: Blastocoele (n.) The cavity of the blastosphere, or segmentation cavity..
Blastematic :: Blastematic (a.) Connected with, or proceeding from, the blastema; blastemal..
Parablast :: Parablast (n.) A portion of the mesoblast (of peripheral origin) of the developing embryo, the cells of which are especially concerned in forming the first blood and blood vessels..
Blast :: Blast (v. t.) To rend open by any explosive agent, as gunpowder, dynamite, etc.; to shatter; as, to blast rocks..
Blasting :: Blasting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Blas.
Hydrocaulus :: Hydrocaulus (n.) The hollow stem of a hydroid, either simple or branched. See Illust. of Gymnoblastea and Hydroidea..
Converter :: Converter (n.) A retort, used in the Bessemer process, in which molten cast iron is decarburized and converted into steel by a blast of air forced through the liquid metal..
Triploblastic :: Triploblastic (a.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, that condition of the ovum in which there are three primary germinal layers, or in which the blastoderm splits into three layers..
Gymnoblastic :: Gymnoblastic (a.) Of or pertaining to the Gymnoblastea.
Blast :: Blast (n.) A violent gust of wind.
Blastosphere :: Blastosphere (n.) The hollow globe or sphere formed by the arrangement of the blastomeres on the periphery of an impregnated ovum.
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.
Spermatoblast :: Spermatoblast (n.) Same as Spermoblast.
Bessemer Steel :: Bessemer steel () Steel made directly from cast iron, by burning out a portion of the carbon and other impurities that the latter contains, through the agency of a blast of air which is forced through the molten metal; -- so called from Sir Henry Bessemer, an English engineer, the inventor of the process..
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