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Blow- World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1888, rev. 2024. Blow- in comb.

1   For convenience of reference all the combinations are treated here, although those under 3, certainly, and 2, apparently, are formed from the verb.

2   1.  With adverbs, denoting actions; as blow-down, a gust of wind and smoke down a chimney; blow-out, an outbreak of anger, a quarrel; also, a ‘good feed,’ feast, entertainment (slang); blow-up, an explosion; fig. a disturbance, a quarrel.

3 1884.  Health Exhib. Catal., 52/1. Chimney Can for curing a *blow-down.

4 1826.  Scott, in Lockhart (1839), IX. 44. At dinner we had a little *blow-out on Sophia’s part.

5 1840.  R. H. Dana, Bef. Mast, xxvi. 87. They had a grand blow-out, and … drank in the forecastle, a barrel of gin.

6 1856.  F. E. Paget, Owlet of Owlst., 174. Such a jolly blow-out as there was when the Bishop was here.

7 1813.  Ld. Castlereagh, Lett., in Sir R. Wilson, Priv. Diary (1861), II. 201. W. and he must not have any connexion together or there will be a *blow up.

8 1834.  J. Wilson, Noct. Ambr. (1864), IV. 133. O’Connell and Littleton had a blow-up and abused each other like pickpockets.

9   2.  With sb., qualified by blow- (the verb-stem) in sense of ‘blowing,’ or ‘that blows’ or ‘is blown,’ as blow-ball, the globular seeding head of the dandelion and allied plants; also fig.; blow-cock, a cock or tap by which to blow off steam; blow-george (see quot.); blow-gun = BLOW-PIPE 2; blow-line (Angling), a fishing line of the lightest floss silk, used with the living fly, so web-like as to allow the wind to blow it out over the stream; blow-post, a system of conveying letters and parcels by pneumatic tubes; blow-tube = BLOW-PIPE 2; also a tube used in glass-blowing; blow-valve, the shifting valve of a condensing engine; blow-well (see quot.) Also BLOW-HOLE, BLOW-PIPE.

10 1578.  Lyte, Dodoens, V. xvi. 568. Condrilla hath … double flowers; the whiche past, they turne into rounde *blowballes, like to fine downe or cotton.

11 1640.  Shirley, Imposture, IV. ii. I’m your blow-ball, Your breath dissolves my being.

12 a. 1670.  Hacket, Abp. Williams, II. (1692), 90. Shake him from his stalk, like a downy blow-ball.

13 1885.  Standard, 28 May, 6/3. Joint of blowcock of boiler gave way.

14 1871.  Trans. Amer. Inst. Mining Eng., I. 303. Ventilated in the driving by a *‘blow george’ (hand-fan).

15 1864.  Athenæum, No. 1929. 504/2. The *blow-gun, thro’ which short poisoned arrows are propelled by the breath.

16 1857.  Kingsley, Two Y. Ago, I. Introd. p. xxxi. (D.). Great anglers … who could do many things besides handling a *blow-line.

17 1867.  F. Francis, Angling (1876), 260. Having baited the hook as in blow-line fishing.

18 1881.  Daily News, 8 Nov., 5/5. A writer … advocates the extension of the *‘blow-post.’

19 1885.  Pall Mall Gaz., 5 March, 4/1. In Paris the blow post is being steadily developed.

20 1871.  Tylor, Prim. Cult., i. 60. Nearly the same may be said of the *blow-tube.

21 1854.  N. & Q., Ser. I. IX. 283/1. Natural springs in the northern slope of the Chalk in Lincolnshire … called *blow-wells, which may be considered as naturally Artesian.

22   3.  With sb., which is the object after blow (in the sense of ‘one who blows’), as blow-bottle, blow-bowl, a habitual drinker, tippler, sot (cf. BLOW v.1 31); † blow-coal (fig.), one who stirs up or promotes strife (cf. BLOW v.1 17 b); † blow-point, a game (see quot. 1801).

23 1580.  Baret, Alv., A 270. A common haunter of alehouses … an aleknight: a tipler … a *blowbottell.

24 1530.  Palsgr., 199/1. *Blowbole, yuroigne.

25 1622.  H. Sydenham, Serm. Sol. Occ. (1637), 262. These are … the common *blow-coales in Ecclesiastick tumults.

26 1580.  Sidney, Arcadia, II. 224. How shepheards spend their days At *blow-point, hot cockles, or else at keeles.

27 1640.  Shirley, Hum. Courtier, V. iii. Do not trust the Archduke: he cozened me at blow-point.

28 1801.  Strutt, Sports & Past., IV. iv. (1876), 513. Blow-point was probably blowing an arrow through a trunk at certain numbers by way of lottery.

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