Word Meanings - BLOW-OUT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The cleaning of the flues of a boiler from scale, etc., by a blast of steam.

Related words: (words related to BLOW-OUT)

• CLEANSABLE
  Capable of being cleansed. Sherwood.
• CLEAN-CUT
  See CLEAR-CUT
• SCALENE
  A triangle having its sides and angles unequal.
• CLEANNESS
  1. The state or quality of being clean. 2. Purity of life or language; freedom from licentious courses. Chaucer.
• STEAM
  smoke, odor; akin to D. stoom steam, perhaps originally, a pillar, or 1. The elastic, aëriform fluid into which water is converted when heated to the boiling points; water in the state of vapor. 2. The mist formed by condensed vapor;
• BLASTMENT
  A sudden stroke or injury produced by some destructive cause. Shak.
• BLAST
  1. To be blighted or withered; as, the bud blasted in the blossom. 2. To blow; to blow on a trumpet. Toke his blake trumpe faste And gan to puffen and to blaste. Chaucer.
• CLEANING
  1. The act of making clean. 2. The afterbirth of cows, ewes, etc. Gardner.
• CLEANLINESS
  State of being cleanly; neatness of person or dress. Cleanliness from head to heel. Swift.
• SCALEBOARD
  A thin slip of wood used to justify a page. Crabb. 2. A thin veneer of leaf of wood used for covering the surface of articles of firniture, and the like. Scaleboard plane, a plane for cutting from a board a wide shaving forming a scaleboard.
• BLASTOSPHERE
  The hollow globe or sphere formed by the arrangement of the blastomeres on the periphery of an impregnated ovum. Note:
• CLEANLY
  1. Habitually clean; pure; innocent. "Cleanly joys." Glanvill. Some plain but cleanly country maid. Dryden. Displays her cleanly platter on the board. Goldsmith. 2. Cleansing; fitted to remove moisture; dirt, etc. "With cleanly powder dry their
• SCALE
  1. A ladder; a series of steps; a means of ascending. 2. Hence, anything graduated, especially when employed as a measure or rule, or marked by lines at regular intervals. Specifically: A mathematical instrument, consisting of a slip
• BLASTOPHORE
  That portion of the spermatospore which is not converted into spermatoblasts, but carries them.
• BLASTODERMATIC; BLASTODERMIC
  Of or pertaining to the blastoderm.
• SCALEBEAM
  1. The lever or beam of a balance; the lever of a platform scale, to which the poise for weighing is applied. 2. A weighing apparatus with a sliding weight, resembling a steelyard.
• CLEAN-TIMBERED
  Well-propotioned; symmetrical. Shak.
• STEAMBOAT
  A boat or vessel propelled by steam power; -- generally used of river or coasting craft, as distinguished from ocean steamers.
• BLASTOMERE
  One of the segments first formed by the division of the ovum. Balfour.
• BLASTOIDEA
  One of the divisions of Crinoidea found fossil in paleozoic rocks; pentremites. They are so named on account of their budlike form.
• GUNTER'S SCALE
  A scale invented by the Rev. Edmund Gunter , a professor of astronomy at Gresham College, London, who invented also Gunter's chain, and Gunter's quadrant. Note: Gunter's scale is a wooden rule, two feet long, on one side of which are marked scales
• DIPLOBLASTIC
  Characterizing the ovum when it has two primary germinal layers.
• UNCLEAN
  1. Not clean; foul; dirty; filthy. 2. Ceremonially impure; needing ritual cleansing. He that toucheth the dead body of any man shall be unclean seven days. Num. xix. 11. 3. Morally impure. "Adultery of the heart, consisting of inordinate
• NEMATOBLAST
  A spermatocyte or spermoblast.
• ABLASTEMIC
  Non-germinal.
• CNIDOBLAST
  One of the cells which, in the Coelenterata, develop into cnidæ.
• MESOBLASTIC
  Relating to the mesoblast; as, the mesoblastic layer.
• CLEAN
  Free from ceremonial defilement. 8. Free from that which is corrupting to the morals; pure in tone; healthy. "Lothair is clean." F. Harrison. 9. Well-proportioned; shapely; as, clean limbs. A clean bill of health, a certificate from the