A light, loose over-garment, like a smock frock, worn especially by workingmen in France; also, a loose coat of any material, as the undress uniform coat of the United States army.

To orate pompously; -- used especially of politicians and news commentators.

A blowing, esp., a violent blowing of the wind; a gale; as, a heavy blow came on, and the ship put back to port.

An act of fellatio, a form of oral sex; -- a slang term. See blow{11}, v. i.

the leakage of gases from the combustion cylinder of an internal combustion engine between the piston and cylinder wall into the crankcase.

A blowing off steam, water, etc.; as, a blow-off cock or pipe.

The cleaning of the flues of a boiler from scale, etc., by a blast of steam.

the backward escape of unburned gunpowder after a shot.

The downy seed head of a dandelion, which children delight to blow away.

One who, or that which, blows.

A prostitute; a courtesan; a strumpet.

a fish eaten as a delicacy, especially in Japan. It is highly dangerous because of a potent nerve poison (tetrodotoxin) in its ovaries and liver. Chefs require special training to learn how to remove the poisonous parts, and in Japan they must be licensed.

Any species of fly of the genus Musca that deposits its eggs or young larv/ (called flyblows and maggots) upon meat or other animal products.

A tube, as of cane or reed, sometimes twelve feet long, through which an arrow (sometimes poisoned) 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 blowpipe, and blowtube. See Sumpitan.

a very boastful and talkative person.

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.

windy.

A burner that produces a hot flame.

Opened; in blossom or having blossomed, as a flower.

a gay or lavish festivity.

A tube for directing a jet of air into a fire or into the flame of a lamp or candle, so as to concentrate the heat on some object.

A child's game.

See Blowze.

A blossoming; a bloom.

A blowgun.

Windy; as, blowy weather; a blowy upland.

A ruddy, fat-faced woman; a wench.

Having high color from exposure to the weather; ruddy-faced; blowzy; disordered.

Coarse and ruddy-faced; fat and ruddy; high colored; frowzy.

To swell; to puff out, as with weeping.

To swell or disfigure (the face) with weeping; to wet with tears.

Swollen; turgid; as, a blubbered lip.

The act of weeping noisily.

Swollen; protuberant.

A kind of half boot, or high shoe, with laces over the tongue; -- named from the Prussian general Bl/cher.

A short stick, with one end loaded, or thicker and heavier that the other, used as an offensive weapon.

To make blue; to dye of a blue color; to make blue by heating, as metals, etc.

a member of the nobility or aristocracy, or a person of high social status.

a tight-fitting trousers made of blue denim or a similar fabric, designed originally to serve as inexpensive durable workclothes, and often having metal rivets for reinforcement. They have become very popular as casual wear for all age groups, and more expensive and more carefully styled and tailored versions called designer jeanshave also become popular among girls and women.

unable to see the color blue or to distinguish the colors blue and yellow.

inability to distinguish blue and yellow.

of aristocratic birth and refined upbringing.

A broad, flat Scottish cap of blue woolen, or one wearing such cap; a Scotchman.

an annual Eurasian plant (Centaurea cyanus) which grows in grain fields; -- called also bachelor's button. It receives its name from its blue bottle-shaped flowers. Varieties cultivated in North America have showy heads of blue or purple or pink or white flowers

of or designating work or workers in industry not requiring well-groomed appearance.

The blue-cheeked honeysucker of Australia.

Having blue eyes.

A name given to fluor spar in Derbyshire, where it is used for ornamental purposes.

to change, delete, or abridge (a portion of a text) with a blue pencil (or as if with a blue pencil), as in the editing process; -- of books, etc.

selected or chosen for special qualifications; as, a blue-ribbon grand jury.

Having blue veins or blue streaks.

A trout (Salmo oquassa) inhabiting some of the lakes of Maine. A salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka) of the Columbia River and northward. An American river herring (Clupea /stivalis), closely allied to the alewife.

The hero of a medi/val French nursery legend, who, leaving home, enjoined his young wife not to open a certain room in his castle. She entered it, and found the murdered bodies of his former wives. -- Also used adjectively of a subject which it is forbidden to investigate.

A plant of the genus Campanula, especially the Campanula rotundifolia, which bears blue bell-shaped flowers; the harebell. A plant of the genus Scilla (Scilla nutans).

The berry of several species of Vaccinium, an ericaceous genus, differing from the American huckleberries in containing numerous minute seeds instead of ten nutlets. The commonest species are Vaccinium Pennsylvanicum and Vaccinium vacillans. Vaccinium corymbosum is the tall blueberry.

A duck of the genus Fuligula. Two American species (Fuligula marila and Fuligula affinis) are common. See Scaup duck.

A small song bird (Sialia sialis), very common in the United States, and, in the north, one of the earliest to arrive in spring. The male is blue, with the breast reddish. It is related to the European robin.

A small European bird; the blue-throated warbler.

The bluepoll. The blue bonnet or blue titmouse.

One dressed in blue, as a soldier, a sailor, a beadle, etc.

A large voracious fish (Pomatomus saitatrix), of the family Carangid/, valued as a food fish, and widely distributed on the American coast. On the New Jersey and Rhode Island coast it is called the horse mackerel, in Virginia saltwater tailor, or skipjack.

One of a class of paupers or pensioners, or licensed beggars, in Scotland, to whim annually on the king's birthday were distributed certain alms, including a blue gown; a beadsman.

Same as bluing.

a serviceman in the navy.

With a blue color.

The quality of being blue; a blue color.

A nickname for a Nova Scotian; also, a Nova Scotian ship (called also Blue"nos`er (/)); a Nova Scotian potato, etc.

A kind of salmon (Salmo Cambricus) found in Wales.

a type of folk song that originated among Black Americans at the beginning of the 20th century; has a melancholoy sound from repeated used of blue notes.

tall grass with smooth bluish leaf sheaths grown for hay in Western U.S.

A literary lady; a female pedant.

The character or manner of a bluestocking; female pedantry.

Blue vitriol.

A singing bird of northern Europe and Asia (Cyanecula Suecica), related to the nightingales; -- called also blue-throated robin and blue-throated warbler.

A name given to several different species of plants having blue flowers, as the Houstonia c/rulea, the Centaurea cyanus or bluebottle, and the Vaccinium angustifolium.

a coarse prickly European weed (Echium vulgare) with spikes of blue flowers; naturalized in the U. S.

The blue-winged teal. See Teal.

A bushman's blanket; -- named from its color.

To act as in the game of bluff.

Built with the stem nearly straight up and down.

Built with the stem nearly straight up and down.

One who bluffs.

The quality or state of being bluff.

Having bluffs, or bold, steep banks.

The act of rendering blue; as, the bluing of steel.

Somewhat blue; as, bluish veins.

Confusion; disturbance.

A short gun or firearm, with a large bore, capable of holding a number of balls, and intended to do execution without exact aim.

One who is apt to blunder.

A stupid, blundering fellow.

Characterized by blunders.

In a blundering manner.

To amalgamate and blend; to beat up or mix in water, as clay.

A wooden blade with a cross handle, used for mi/ing the clay in potteries; a plunger.

The process of mixing clay in potteries with a blunger.

A fencer's foil.

Dull; stupid.

made dull or blunt.

Somewhat blunt.

In a blunt manner; coarsely; plainly; abruptly; without delicacy, or the usual forms of civility.

Want of edge or point; dullness; obtuseness; lack of sharpness.

That which obscures without effacing; a stain; a blot, as upon paper or other substance.

out of focus; not sharply defined.

Full of blurs; blurred.

To utter suddenly and unadvisedly; to divulge inconsiderately; to ejaculate; -- commonly with out.

A suffusion of the cheeks or face with red, as from a sense of shame, confusion, or modesty.

rose-colored.

One that blushes.

A modest girl.

Full of blushes.

The act of turning red; the appearance of a reddish color or flush upon the cheeks.

In a blushing manner; with a blush or blushes; as, to answer or confess blushingly.

Free from blushes; incapable of blushing; shameless; impudent.

Like a blush; having the color of a blush; rosy.

Fitful noise and violence, as of a storm; violent winds; boisterousness.

One who, or that which, blusters; a noisy swaggerer.

Exhibiting noisy violence, as the wind; stormy; tumultuous.

In a blustering manner.

Inclined to bluster; given to blustering; blustering.

Blusterous.