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Word Meanings - EXSUFFLATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A kind of exorcism by blowing with the breath. Jer. Taylor. (more info) 1. A blast from beneath. Bacon.

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  • BREATHE
    Etym: 1. To respire; to inhale and exhale air; hence;, to live. "I am in health, I breathe." Shak. Breathes there a man with soul so dead Sir W. Scott. 2. To take breath; to rest from action. Well! breathe awhile, and then to it again! Shak. 3.
  • BACON
    The back and sides of a pig salted and smoked; formerly, the flesh of a pig salted or fresh. Bacon beetle , a beetle which, especially in the larval state, feeds upon bacon, woolens, furs, etc. See Dermestes. -- To save one's bacon, to save one's
  • BACONIAN
    Of or pertaining to Lord Bacon, or to his system of philosophy. Baconian method, the inductive method. See Induction.
  • BLASTMENT
    A sudden stroke or injury produced by some destructive cause. Shak.
  • BLOWTUBE
    A long wrought iron tube, on the end of which the workman gathers a quantity of "metal" , and through which he blows to expand or shape it; -- called also blowing tube, and blowpipe. (more info) 1. A blowgun. Tylor. 2. A similar instrument,
  • BLOWFLY
    Any species of fly of the genus Musca that deposits its eggs or young larvæ upon meat or other animal products.
  • BLOWN
    1. Swollen; inflated; distended; puffed up, as cattle when gorged with green food which develops gas. 2. Stale; worthless. 3. Out of breath; tired; exhausted. "Their horses much blown." Sir W. Scott. 4. Covered with the eggs and larvæ of flies;
  • BLASTOSPHERE
    The hollow globe or sphere formed by the arrangement of the blastomeres on the periphery of an impregnated ovum. Note:
  • BREATHLESS
    1. Spent with labor or violent action; out of breath. 2. Not breathing; holding the breath, on account of fear, expectation, or intense interest; attended with a holding of the breath; as, breathless attention. But breathless, as we grow
  • BLOWTH
    A blossoming; a bloom. "In the blowth and bud." Sir W. Raleigh.
  • BLASTOPHORE
    That portion of the spermatospore which is not converted into spermatoblasts, but carries them.
  • BLASTODERMATIC; BLASTODERMIC
    Of or pertaining to the blastoderm.
  • BLOWEN; BLOWESS
    A prostitute; a courtesan; a strumpet. Smart.
  • BLAST
    blastr, OHG. blast, and fr. a verb akin to Icel. blasa to blow, OHG. blâsan, Goth. bl ; all prob. from the same root as E. blow. 1. A violent gust of wind. And see where surly Winter passes off, Far to the north, and calls his ruffian blasts;
  • BLOWZED
    Having high color from exposure to the weather; ruddy-faced; blowzy; disordered. Huge women blowzed with health and wind. Tennyson.
  • BREATHABLE
    Such as can be breathed.
  • BLOWPOINT
    A child's game.
  • BENEATH
    1. Lower in place, with something directly over or on; under; underneath; hence, at the foot of. "Beneath the mount." Ex. xxxii.
  • BLASTOMERE
    One of the segments first formed by the division of the ovum. Balfour.
  • BLOWER
    A device for producing a current of air; as: A metal plate temporarily placed before the upper part of a grate or open fire. A machine for producing an artificial blast or current of air by pressure, as for increasing the draft of a
  • DIPLOBLASTIC
    Characterizing the ovum when it has two primary germinal layers.
  • NEMATOBLAST
    A spermatocyte or spermoblast.
  • WHITEBLOW
    See WHITLOW
  • ABLASTEMIC
    Non-germinal.
  • CNIDOBLAST
    One of the cells which, in the Coelenterata, develop into cnidæ.
  • MESOBLASTIC
    Relating to the mesoblast; as, the mesoblastic layer.
  • UPBREATHE
    To breathe up or out; to exhale. Marston.
  • PARABLAST
    A portion of the mesoblast of the developing embryo, the cells of which are especially concerned in forming the first blood and blood vessels. C. S. Minot.

 

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