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Word Meanings - INFLATUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A blowing or breathing into; inflation; inspiration. The divine breath that blows the nostrils out To ineffable inflatus. Mrs. Browning.

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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.
  • INEFFABLENESS
    The quality or state of being ineffable or unutterable; unspeakableness.
  • BROWNBACK
    The dowitcher or red-breasted snipe. See Dowitcher.
  • 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;
  • 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.
  • DIVINER
    1. One who professes divination; one who pretends to predict events, or to reveal occult things, by supernatural means. The diviners have seen a lie, and have told false dreams; they comfort in vain. Zech. x. 2. 2. A conjecture; a guesser; one
  • BROWNIE
    An imaginary good-natured spirit, who was supposed often to perform important services around the house by night, such as thrashing, churning, sweeping.
  • BLOWEN; BLOWESS
    A prostitute; a courtesan; a strumpet. Smart.
  • BLOWZED
    Having high color from exposure to the weather; ruddy-faced; blowzy; disordered. Huge women blowzed with health and wind. Tennyson.
  • INSPIRATIONIST
    One who holds to inspiration.
  • BREATHABLE
    Such as can be breathed.
  • BLOWPOINT
    A child's game.
  • INEFFABLE
    Incapable of being expresses in words; unspeakable; unutterable; indescribable; as, the ineffable joys of heaven. Contentment with our lot . . . will diffuse ineffable contenBeattie.
  • 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
  • DIVINELY
    1. In a divine or godlike manner; holily; admirably or excellently in a supreme degree. Most divinely fair. Tennyson. 2. By the agency or influence of God. Divinely set apart . . . to be a preacher of righteousness. Macaulay.
  • BROWNNESS
    The quality or state of being brown. Now like I brown ; Only in brownness beauty dwelleth there. Drayton.
  • BLOW
    To flower; to blossom; to bloom. How blows the citron grove. Milton. (more info) pluojan, MHG. bl, G. blühen, L. florere to flourish, OIr. blath
  • WHITEBLOW
    See WHITLOW
  • UPBREATHE
    To breathe up or out; to exhale. Marston.
  • FLYBLOWN
    Tainted or contaminated with flyblows; damaged; foul. Wherever flyblown reputations were assembled. Thackeray.

 

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