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.
Related words: (words related to INFLATUS)
- 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.