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Blower1. 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. Blower1 [OE. bláwere, f. bláwan to BLOW1: see -ER1.]

1   1.  gen. One who, or that which, blows. Usually followed by of (the object blown).

2 c. 897.  K. Ælfred, Gregory’s Past., xxxvii. 268. Idel wæs se blawere.

3 c. 1320.  Sir Tristr., I. xlix. The best blower of horn.

4 1545.  Ludlow Churchw. Accts. (1869), 21. To the blower of the organs.

5 1775.  Phil. Trans., LXV. 67. An expert blower of the German flute.

6 1872.  Tennyson, Last Tourn., 540. O hunter, and O blower of the horn.

7   2.  spec. A marine animal which ‘blows’ (see BLOW v.1 5); e.g., a whale.

8 1854.  Bushnan, in Circ. Sc., I. 140. The common cetaceans, popularly known as blowers.

9   3.  A mechanical contrivance for producing a current of air; e.g., a plate or sheet of metal fixed before a fire to increase the draught.

10 1795.  Specif. Crook & German’s Patent, No. 2032. The blower was let down close to the top of the grate, so that no air could pass otherwise than through the grate.

11 1869.  Eng. Mech., 24 Dec., 344/1. It can … be hung in front of the fire to act as a blower.

12 1881.  Raymond, Mining Gloss., Blower, a fan or other apparatus for forcing air into a furnace or mine.

13 1885.  Manch. Exam., 21 July, 8/1. The sweepings [were] … put through the blower instead of the winnower.

14   4.  An escape of inflammable gas through a fissure in a coal-mine; the fissure itself; a similar current of air escaping through a fissure in a glacier.

15 1822.  Imison, Sc. & Art, II. 59. It is disengaged from fissures in the strata … called by the miners blowers.

16 1860.  Tyndall, Glac., 87. While cutting away the surface further, I stopped the little ‘blower.’

17 1862.  Smiles, Engineers, III. 111. The explosive gas was issuing through a blower in the roof of the mine with a loud hissing noise.

18 1866.  Reader, 21 July, 671. ‘Blowers’ as they are called in the north of England … streams of inflammable gas issuing from the ground.

19   5.  fig. A boaster. dial. and in U.S. and colonies.

20 1863.  ‘Manhattan,’ in Standard, 11 Dec., 6/1. I will say of General Grant that he is not one of the ‘blower’ generals.

21 1864.  Spectator, 22 Oct., 1202/1. Notorious among our bar and the public as a ‘blower.’

22   6.  Comb. with various adverbs (cf. BLOW v.1), as blower forth, in, up.

23 1550.  J. Coke, Debate Her. Eng. & Fr. (1877), 121. Blowers forth of fayned fables.

24 1601.  Shaks., All’s Well, I. i. 132. Blesse our poore Virginity from vnderminers and blowers vp.

25 1635.  Swan, Spec. M., v. § 2. 176. The winds … the blowers in of rain.

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