Blow (v. i.) To flower |
Blow (v. t.) To cause to blossom |
Blow (n.) A blossom |
Blow (n.) A forcible stroke with the hand, fist, or some instrument, as a rod, a club, an ax, or a sword. |
Blow (n.) A sudden or forcible act or effort |
Blow (n.) The infliction of evil |
Blow (v. i.) To produce a current of air |
Blow (v. i.) To send forth a forcible current of air, as from the mouth or from a pair of bellows. |
Blow (v. i.) To breathe hard or quick |
Blow (v. i.) To sound on being blown into, as a trumpet. |
Blow (v. i.) To spout water, etc., from the blowholes, as a whale. |
Blow (v. i.) To be carried or moved by the wind |
Blow (v. i.) To talk loudly |
Blow (v. t.) To force a current of air upon with the mouth, or by other means |
Blow (v. t.) To drive by a current air |
Blow (v. t.) To cause air to pass through by the action of the mouth, or otherwise |
Blow (v. t.) To clear of contents by forcing air through |
Blow (v. t.) To burst, shatter, or destroy by an explosion |
Blow (v. t.) To spread by report |
Blow (v. t.) To form by inflation |
Blow (v. t.) To inflate, as with pride |
Blow (v. t.) To put out of breath |
Blow (v. t.) To deposit eggs or larvae upon, or in (meat, etc.). |
Blow (n.) A blowing, esp., a violent blowing of the wind |
Blow (n.) The act of forcing air from the mouth, or through or from some instrument |
Blow (n.) The spouting of a whale. |
Blow (n.) A single heat or operation of the Bessemer converter. |
Blow (n.) An egg, or a larva, deposited by a fly on or in flesh, or the act of depositing it. |
Blow-off (n.) A blowing off steam, water, etc. |
Blow-off (adj.) as, a blow-off cock or pipe. |
Blow-off (adj.) An outburst of temper or excitement. |
Blow-out (n.) The cleaning of the flues of a boiler from scale, etc., by a blast of steam. |
Blow valve () See Snifting valve. |
By-blow (n.) A side or incidental blow |
By-blow (n.) An illegitimate child |
Gold-hammer (n.) The yellow-hammer. |
Hammer (n.) An instrument for driving nails, beating metals, and the like, consisting of a head, usually of steel or iron, fixed crosswise to a handle. |
Hammer (n.) Something which in firm or action resembles the common hammer |
Hammer (n.) That part of a clock which strikes upon the bell to indicate the hour. |
Hammer (n.) The padded mallet of a piano, which strikes the wires, to produce the tones. |
Hammer (n.) The malleus. |
Hammer (n.) That part of a gunlock which strikes the percussion cap, or firing pin |
Hammer (n.) Also, a person of thing that smites or shatters |
Hammer (v. t.) To beat with a hammer |
Hammer (v. t.) To form or forge with a hammer |
Hammer (v. t.) To form in the mind |
Hammer (v. i.) To be busy forming anything |
Hammer (v. i.) To strike repeated blows, literally or figuratively. |
Hammer-beam (n.) A member of one description of roof truss, called hammer-beam truss, which is so framed as not to have a tiebeam at the top of the wall. Each principal has two hammer-beams, which occupy the situation, and to some extent serve the purpose, of a tiebeam. |
Hammer-dressed (a.) Having the surface roughly shaped or faced with the stonecutter's hammer |
blow puff | forceful exhalation through the nose or mouth, he gave his nose a loud blow, he blew out all the candles with a single puff |
blow | a powerful stroke with the fist or a weapon, a blow on the head |
hammer pound hammering pounding | the act of pounding (delivering repeated heavy blows), the sudden hammer of fists caught him off guard, the pounding of feet on the hallway |
blowfly blow fly | large usually hairy metallic blue or green fly, lays eggs in carrion or dung or wounds |
air hammer jackhammer pneumatic hammer | a hammer driven by compressed air |
ball-peen hammer | a hammer with one round and one flat end, used in working metal |
blowgun blowpipe blowtube blow tube | a tube through which darts can be shot by blowing |
blowtube blow tube blowpipe | a tube that directs air or gas into a flame to concentrate heat |
bricklayer's hammer | a hammer used in laying bricks |
carpenter's hammer claw hammer clawhammer | a hammer with a cleft at one end for pulling nails |
coke blow nose candy snow C | street names for cocaine |
drop forge drop hammer drop press | device for making large forgings |
electric hammer | a hammer driven by electric motor |
hammer | a hand tool with a heavy rigid head and a handle, used to deliver an impulsive force by striking |
hammer power hammer | a power tool for drilling rocks |
hammer | a striker that is covered in felt and that causes the piano strings to vibrate |
hammer cock | the part of a gunlock that strikes the percussion cap when the trigger is pulled |
hammer | a heavy metal sphere attached to a flexible wire, used in the hammer throw |
hand blower blow dryer blow drier hair dryer hair drier | a hand-held electric blower that can blow warm air onto the hair, used for styling hair |
mallet hammer | a light drumstick with a rounded head that is used to strike such percussion instruments as chimes, kettledrums, marimbas, glockenspiels, etc. |
tack hammer | a light hammer that is used to drive tacks |
malleus hammer | the ossicle attached to the eardrum |
low blow | unscrupulous abuse |
hammer and sickle | the emblem on the flag of the Soviet Union |
shock blow | an unpleasant or disappointing surprise, it came as a shock to learn that he was injured |
blow bump | an impact (as from a collision), the bump threw him off the bicycle |
water hammer | the banging sound of steam in pipes |
hammer throw | an athletic competition in which a heavy metal ball that is attached to a flexible wire is hurled as far as possible |
reverse reversal setback blow black eye | an unfortunate happening that hinders or impedes, something that is thwarting or frustrating |
bastard by-blow love child illegitimate child illegitimate whoreson | the illegitimate offspring of unmarried parents |
John Doe Joe Blow Joe Bloggs man in the street | a hypothetical average man |
gust blast blow | a strong current of air, the tree was bent almost double by the gust |
rhinophyma hypertrophic rosacea toper's nose brandy nose rum nose rum-blossom potato nose hammer nose copper nose | enlargement of the nose with dilation of follicles and redness and prominent vascularity of the skin, often associated with excessive consumption of alcohol |
blow gas blowing gas | the gas leaving a generator during a blow period |
blow | exhale hard, blow on the soup to cool it down |
blow | free of obstruction by blowing air through, blow one's nose |
strike a blow | affect adversely, The court ruling struck a blow at the old segregation laws |
blow-dry | dry hair with a hair dryer |
blow up enlarge magnify | make large, blow up an image |
puff puff up blow up puff out | to swell or cause to enlarge, Her faced puffed up from the drugs, puffed out chests |
inflate blow up | fill with gas or air, inflate a balloons |
inflate blow up expand amplify | exaggerate or make bigger, The charges were inflated |
detonate explode blow up | burst and release energy as through a violent chemical or physical reaction,the bomb detonated at noon, The Molotov cocktail exploded |
explode detonate blow up set off | cause to burst with a violent release of energy, We exploded the nuclear bomb |
blow | burst suddenly, The tire blew, We blew a tire |
evanesce fade blow over pass off fleet pass | disappear gradually, The pain eventually passed off |
blow out burn out blow | melt, break, or become otherwise unusable, The lightbulbs blew out, The fuse blew |
blow | shape by blowing, Blow a glass vase |
hammer in drill in ram down beat in | teach by drills and repetition |
blow c | allow to regain its breath, blow a horse |