Word Meanings - WHIRL-BLAST - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A whirling blast or wind. A whirl-blast from behind the hill. Wordsworth.

Related words: (words related to WHIRL-BLAST)

• WHIRLBONE
  The huckle bone. The patella, or kneepan. Ainsworth.
• WHIRLWIND
  1. A violent windstorm of limited extent, as the tornado, characterized by an inward spiral motion of the air with an upward current in the center; a vortex of air. It usually has a rapid progressive motion. The swift dark whirlwind that uproots
• BLASTMENT
  A sudden stroke or injury produced by some destructive cause. Shak.
• 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;
• WHIRLBAT
  Anything moved with a whirl, as preparatory for a blow, or to augment the force of it; -- applied by poets to the cestus of ancient boxers. The whirlbat and the rapid race shall be Reserved for Cæsar. Dryden.
• BLASTOSPHERE
  The hollow globe or sphere formed by the arrangement of the blastomeres on the periphery of an impregnated ovum. Note:
• BLASTOPHORE
  That portion of the spermatospore which is not converted into spermatoblasts, but carries them.
• BLASTODERMATIC; BLASTODERMIC
  Of or pertaining to the blastoderm.
• BLASTOMERE
  One of the segments first formed by the division of the ovum. Balfour.
• WHIRLIGIG
  Any one of numerous species of beetles belonging to Gyrinus and allied genera. The body is firm, oval or boatlike in form, and usually dark colored with a bronzelike luster. These beetles live mostly on the surface of water, and move about with
• BLASTOIDEA
  One of the divisions of Crinoidea found fossil in paleozoic rocks; pentremites. They are so named on account of their budlike form.
• WHIRL-BLAST
  A whirling blast or wind. A whirl-blast from behind the hill. Wordsworth.
• BLASTOID
  One of the Blastoidea.
• BLASTOGENESIS
  Multiplication or increase by gemmation or budding.
• BLASTED
  1. Blighted; withered. Upon this blasted heath. Shak. 2. Confounded; accursed; detestable. Some of her own blasted gypsies. Sir W. Scott. 3. Rent open by an explosive. The blasted quarry thunders, heard remote. Wordsworth.
• BLASTEMAL
  Relating to the blastema; rudimentary.
• BLASTY
  1. Affected by blasts; gusty. 2. Causing blast or injury. Boyle.
• WHIRLPOOL
  1. An eddy or vortex of water; a place in a body of water where the water moves round in a circle so as to produce a depression or cavity in the center, into which floating objects may be drawn; any body of water having a more or less circular
• BLASTOPORE
  The pore or opening leading into the cavity of invagination, or archenteron. Note: Balfour.
• WHIRLPIT
  A whirlpool. "Raging whirlpits." Sandys.
• DIPLOBLASTIC
  Characterizing the ovum when it has two primary germinal layers.
• 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.
• 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.
• WHIRL
  hvirvle; akin to D. wervelen, G. wirbeln, freq. of the verb seen in 1. To turn round rapidly; to cause to rotate with velocity; to make to revolve. He whirls his sword around without delay. Dryden. 2. To remove or carry quickly with, or as with,
• -BLAST
  A suffix or terminal formative, used principally in biological terms, and signifying growth, formation; as, bioblast, epiblast, mesoblast, etc.
• OSTEOBLAST
  One of the protoplasmic cells which occur in the osteogenetic layer of the periosteum, and from or around which the matrix of the bone is developed; an osteoplast.
• GYMNOBLASTIC
  Of or pertaining to the Gymnoblastea.
• HAEMATOBLAST
  One of the very minute, disk-shaped bodies found in blood with the ordinary red corpuscles and white corpuscles; a third kind of blood corpuscle, supposed by some to be an early stage in the development of the red corpuscles; -- called also blood
• EPIBLASTIC
  Of or relating to, or consisting of, the epiblast.