Definition of blast

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Blast (v. t.) Hence, to affect with some sudden violence, plague, calamity, or blighting influence, which destroys or causes to fail; to visit with a curse; to curse; to ruin; as, to blast pride, hopes, or character..

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Spermatocyte :: Spermatocyte (n.) Same as Spermoblast.
Blastopore :: Blastopore (n.) The pore or opening leading into the cavity of invagination, or archenteron..
Statocracy :: Statoblast (n.) One of a peculiar kind of internal buds, or germs, produced in the interior of certain Bryozoa and sponges, especially in the fresh-water species; -- also called winter buds..
Blastoderm :: Blastoderm (n.) The germinal membrane in an ovum, from which the embryo is developed..
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..
Odontoblast :: Odontoblast (n.) One of the cells which secrete the chitinous teeth of Mollusca.
Tamp :: Tamp (v. t.) In blasting, to plug up with clay, earth, dry sand, sod, or other material, as a hole bored in a rock, in order to prevent the force of the explosion from being misdirected..
Scaffold :: Scaffold (n.) An accumulation of adherent, partly fused material forming a shelf, or dome-shaped obstruction, above the tuyeres in a blast furnace..
Mouse :: Mouse (n.) A match used in firing guns or blasting.
Blastula :: Blastula (n.) That stage in the development of the ovum in which the outer cells of the morula become more defined and form the blastoderm.
Set :: Set (v. i.) To be fixed for growth; to strike root; to begin to germinate or form; as, cuttings set well; the fruit has set well (i. e., not blasted in the blossom)..
Bleak :: Bleak (a.) Cold and cutting; cheerless; as, a bleak blast..
Spongoid :: Spongoblast (n.) One of the cells which, in sponges, secrete the spongin, or the material of the horny fibers..
Blast :: Blast (v. t.) To rend open by any explosive agent, as gunpowder, dynamite, etc.; to shatter; as, to blast rocks..
Haematoblast :: Haematoblast (n.) One of the very minute, disk-shaped bodies found in blood with the ordinary red corpuscles and white corpuscles; a third kind of blood corpuscle, supposed by some to be an early stage in the development of the red corpuscles; -- called also blood plaque, and blood plate..
Blastocarpous :: Blastocarpous (a.) Germinating inside the pericarp, as the mangrove..
Blasted :: Blasted (a.) Rent open by an explosive.
Blasting :: Blasting (n.) A blast; destruction by a blast, or by some pernicious cause..
Carbunculation :: Carbunculation (n.) The blasting of the young buds of trees or plants, by excessive heat or cold..
Tubularida :: Tubularida (n. pl.) An extensive division of Hydroidea; the tubularians; -- called also Athecata, Gymnoblastea, and Tubulariae..
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