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<p><b>5.</b> <def>To burst, shatter, or destroy by an explosion; -- usually with <i>up</i>, <i>down</i>, <i>open</i>, or similar adverb; <as>as, to <ex>blow</ex> up a building</as>.</def>

<p><b>6.</b> <def>To spread by report; to publish; to disclose.</def>

<blockquote>Through the court his courtesy was <b>blown</b>. <i>Dryden.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>His language does his knowledge <b>blow</b>. <i>Whiting.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>7.</b> <def>To form by inflation; to swell by injecting air; <as>as, to <ex>blow</ex> bubbles; to <ex>blow</ex> glass.</as></def>

<p><b>8.</b> <def>To inflate, as with pride; to puff up.</def>

<blockquote>Look how imagination <b>blows</b> him. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>9.</b> <def>To put out of breath; to cause to blow from fatigue; <as>as, to <ex>blow</ex> a horse</as>.</def>

<i>Sir W. Scott.</i>

<p><b>10.</b> <def>To deposit eggs or larv\'91 upon, or in (meat, etc.).</def>

<blockquote>To suffer The flesh fly <b>blow</b> my mouth. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<cs><col>To blow great guns</col>, <cd>to blow furiously and with roaring blasts; -- said of the wind at sea or along the coast.</cd> -- <col>To blow off</col>, <cd>to empty (a boiler) of water through the blow-off pipe, while under steam pressure; also, to eject (steam, water, sediment, etc.) from a boiler.</cd> -- <col>To blow one's own trumpet</col>, <cd>to vaunt one's own exploits, or sound one's own praises.</cd> -- <col>To blow out</col>, <cd>to extinguish by a current of air, as a candle.</cd> -- <col>To blow up</col>. <cd><sd>(a)</sd> To fill with air; to swell; as, to <i>blow up<i> a bladder or bubble. <sd>(b)</sd> To inflate, as with pride, self-conceit, etc.; to puff up; as, to <i>blow<i> one <i>up<i> with flattery. "<i>Blown up<i> with high conceits engendering pride." <i>Milton</i>. <sd>(c)</sd> To excite; as, to <i>blow up<i> a contention.<sd>(d)</sd> To burst, to raise into the air, or to scatter, by an explosion; as, to <i>blow up<i> a fort. (<i>e<i>) To scold violently; as, to blow up a person for some offense. <mark>[Colloq.]</mark></cd></cs>

<blockquote>I have <b>blown</b> him <b>up</b> well -- nobody can say I wink at what he does. <i>G. Eliot.</i></blockquote>

<cs><col>To blow upon</col>. <sd>(a)</sd> <cd>To blast; to taint; to bring into discredit; to render stale, unsavory, or worthless.</cd> <sd>(b)</sd> <cd>To inform against.</cd> <mark>[Colloq.]</mark></cs>

<blockquote>How far the very custom of hearing anything spouted withers and <b>blows upon</b> a fine passage, may be seen in those speeches from [Shakespeare's] Henry V. which are current in the mouths of schoolboys. <i>C. Lamb.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>A lady's maid whose character had been <b>blown upon</b>. <i>Macaulay.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Blow</h1> <Xpage=158>

<hw>Blow</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>A blowing, esp., a violent blowing of the wind; a gale; <as>as, a heavy <ex>blow</ex> came on, and the ship put back to port</as>.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>The act of forcing air from the mouth, or through or from some instrument; <as>as, to give a hard <ex>blow</ex> on a whistle or horn; to give the fire a <ex>blow</ex> with the bellows.</as></def>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>The spouting of a whale.</def>

<p><b>4.</b> <fld>(Metal.)</fld> <def>A single heat or operation of the Bessemer converter.</def>

<i>Raymond.</i>

<p><b>5.</b> <def>An egg, or a larva, deposited by a fly on or in flesh, or the act of depositing it.</def>

<i>Chapman.</i>

<h1>Blowball</h1> <Xpage=158>

<hw>Blow"ball`</hw> <tt>(<?/)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>The downy seed head of a dandelion, which children delight to blow away.</def>

<i>B. Jonson.</i>

<h1>Blowen, Blowess</h1> <Xpage=158>