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Whiffler :: Whiffler (n.) An officer who went before procession to clear the way by blowing a horn, or otherwise; hence, any person who marched at the head of a procession; a harbinger..

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

Afflation :: Afflation (n.) A blowing or breathing on; inspiration.

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..

Blast :: 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..

Blow-off :: Blow-off (n.) A blowing off steam, water, etc.;.

Limbat :: Limbat (n.) A cooling periodical wind in the Isle of Cyprus, blowing from the northwest from eight o'clock, A. M., to the middle of the day or later..

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

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

Conflation :: Conflation (n.) A blowing together, as of many instruments in a concert, or of many fires in a foundry..

Circumflant :: Circumflant (a.) Blowing around.

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

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..

Breeze :: Breeze (n.) A light, gentle wind; a fresh, soft-blowing wind..

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

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..

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

Harmoniphon :: Harmoniphon (n.) An obsolete wind instrument with a keyboard, in which the sound, which resembled the oboe, was produced by the vibration of thin metallic plates, acted upon by blowing through a tube..

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

Callithump :: Callithump (n.) A somewhat riotous parade, accompanied with the blowing of tin horns, and other discordant noises; also, a burlesque serenade; a charivari..

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