Definition of blow

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Blow (n.) A forcible stroke with the hand, fist, or some instrument, as a rod, a club, an ax, or a sword..

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Muff :: Muff (n.) A blown cylinder of glass which is afterward flattened out to make a sheet.
Conflate :: Conflate (v. t.) To blow together; to bring together; to collect; to fuse together; to join or weld; to consolidate.
Outblown :: Outblown (a.) Inflated with wind.
Blow :: Blow (n.) A single heat or operation of the Bessemer converter.
Impulse :: Impulse (n.) The action of a force during a very small interval of time; the effect of such action; as, the impulse of a sudden blow upon a hard elastic body..
Overblow :: Overblow (v. i.) To blow over, or be subdued..
Whack :: Whack (n.) A smart resounding blow.
Chap :: Chap (n.) A blow; a rap.
Cornage :: Cornage (n.) Anancient tenure of land, which obliged the tenant to give notice of an invasion by blowing a horn..
Blowze :: Blowze (n.) A ruddy, fat-faced woman; a wench..
Blow :: Blow (v. t.) To put out of breath; to cause to blow from fatigue; as, to blow a horse..
Buffeting :: Buffeting (n.) A succession of blows; continued violence, as of winds or waves; afflictions; adversity..
Blowhole :: Blowhole (n.) An air hole in a casting.
Overblow :: Overblow (v. i.) To force so much wind into a pipe that it produces an overtone, or a note higher than the natural note; thus, the upper octaves of a flute are produced by overblowing..
Diaspore :: Diaspore (n.) A hydrate of alumina, often occurring in white lamellar masses with brilliant pearly luster; -- so named on account of its decrepitating when heated before the blowpipe..
Buffet :: Buffet (v. i.) A blow from any source, or that which affects like a blow, as the violence of winds or waves; a stroke; an adverse action; an affliction; a trial; adversity..
Pyrognostic :: Pyrognostic (a.) Of or pertaining to characters developed by the use of heat; pertaining to the characters of minerals when examined before the blowpipe; as, the pyrognostic characters of galena..
Pick :: Pick (n.) The blow which drives the shuttle, -- the rate of speed of a loom being reckoned as so many picks per minute; hence, in describing the fineness of a fabric, a weft thread; as, so many picks to an inch..
Winder :: Winder (n.) A blow taking away the breath.
Pyrosmalite :: Pyrosmalite (n.) A mineral, usually of a pale brown or of a gray or grayish green color, consisting chiefly of the hydrous silicate of iron and manganese; -- so called from the odor given off before the blowpipe..
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