Part 1217

<hw><hw>Blow"en</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <hw>Blow"ess</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>,<hw> <tt>n.</tt> <def>A prostitute; a courtesan; a strumpet.</def> <mark></mark>

<i>Smart.</i>

<h1>Blower</h1> <Xpage=158>

<hw>Blow"er</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>One who, or that which, blows.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Mech.)</fld> <def>A device for producing a current of air; as: <sd>(a)</sd> A metal plate temporarily placed before the upper part of a grate or open fire. <sd>(b)</sd> A machine for producing an artificial blast or current of air by pressure, as for increasing the draft of a furnace, ventilating a building or shaft, cleansing gram, etc.</def>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>A blowing out or excessive discharge of gas from a hole or fissure in a mine.</def>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>The whale; -- so called by seamen, from the circumstance of its spouting up a column of water.</def>

<p><b>5.</b> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <def>A small fish of the Atlantic coast (<spn>Tetrodon turgidus</spn>); the puffer.</def>

<p><b>6.</b> <def>A braggart, or loud talker.</def> <mark>[Slang]</mark>

<i>Bartlett.</i>

<h1>Blowfly</h1> <Xpage=158>

<hw>Blow"fly`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <def>Any species of fly of the genus <i>Musca</i> that deposits its eggs or young larv\'91 (called <i>flyblows</i> and <i>maggots</i>) upon meat or other animal products.</def>

<h1>Blowgun</h1> <Xpage=158>

<hw>Blow"gun`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>A tube, as of cane or reed, sometimes twelve feet long, through which an arrow or other projectile may be impelled by the force of the breath. It is a weapon much used by certain Indians of America and the West Indies; -- called also <altname>blowpipe</altname>, and <altname>blowtube</altname>. See <er>Sumpitan</er>.</def>

<h1>Blowhole</h1> <Xpage=158>

<hw>Blow"hole`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>A cavern in a cliff, at the water level, opening to the air at its farther extremity, so that the waters rush in with each surge and rise in a lofty jet from the extremity.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>A nostril or spiracle in the top of the head of a whale or other cetacean.</def>

<note>&hand; There are two spiracles or blowholes in the common whales, but only one in sperm whales, porpoises, etc.</note>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>A hole in the ice to which whales, seals, etc., come to breathe.</def>

<p><b>4.</b> <fld>(Founding)</fld> <def>An air hole in a casting.</def>

<h1>Blown</h1> <Xpage=158>

<hw>Blown</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>p. p. & a.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Swollen; inflated; distended; puffed up, as cattle when gorged with green food which develops gas.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Stale; worthless.</def>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>Out of breath; tired; exhausted.</def> "Their horses much blown."

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

<p><b>4.</b> <def>Covered with the eggs and larv\'91 of flies; fly blown.</def>

<h1>Blown</h1> <Xpage=158>

<hw>Blown</hw>, <tt>p. p. & a.</tt> <def>Opened; in blossom or having blossomed, as a flower.</def>