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Exsufflate :: Exsufflate (v. t.) To exorcise or renounce by blowing.

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..

Exsufflation :: Exsufflation (n.) A kind of exorcism by blowing with the breath.

Blower :: Blower (n.) A blowing out or excessive discharge of gas from a hole or fissure in a mine.

Fan :: Fan (n.) Any revolving vane or vanes used for producing currents of air, in winnowing grain, blowing a fire, ventilation, etc., or for checking rapid motion by the resistance of the air; a fan blower; a fan wheel..

Blow :: Blow (n.) A blowing, esp., a violent blowing of the wind; a gale; as, a heavy blow came on, and the ship put back to port..

Buccinator :: Buccinator (n.) A muscle of the cheek; -- so called from its use in blowing wind instruments.

Windflower :: Windflower (n.) The anemone; -- so called because formerly supposed to open only when the wind was blowing. See Anemone.

Blast :: Blast (n.) The sound made by blowing a wind instrument; strictly, the sound produces at one breath..

Insufflation :: Insufflation (n.) The act of blowing (a gas, powder, or vapor) into any cavity of the body..

Tromp :: Tromp (n.) A blowing apparatus, in which air, drawn into the upper part of a vertical tube through side holes by a stream of water within, is carried down with the water into a box or chamber below which it is led to a furnace..

Suffocate :: Sufflation (n.) The act of blowing up or inflating.

Souffle :: Souffle (n.) A murmuring or blowing sound; as, the uterine souffle heard over the pregnant uterus..

Anti-trade :: Anti-trade (n.) A tropical wind blowing steadily in a direction opposite to the trade wind.

Blore :: Blore (n.) The act of blowing; a roaring wind; a blast.

Duster :: Duster (n.) A blowing machine for separating the flour from the bran.

Wound :: Wound () imp. & p. p. of Wind to twist, and Wind to sound by blowing..

Scutch :: Scutch (v. t.) To loosen and dress the fiber of (cotton or silk) by beating; to free (fibrous substances) from dust by beating and blowing.

Serbonian :: Serbonian (a.) Relating to the lake of Serbonis in Egypt, which by reason of the sand blowing into it had a deceptive appearance of being solid land, but was a bog..

Politzerization :: Politzerization (n.) The act of inflating the middle ear by blowing air up the nose during the act of swallowing; -- so called from Prof. Politzer of Vienna, who first practiced it..

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