Word Meanings - CIRCUMFLANT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Blowing around. Evelyn.

Related words: (words related to CIRCUMFLANT)

• BLOWTUBE
  A long wrought iron tube, on the end of which the workman gathers a quantity of "metal" , and through which he blows to expand or shape it; -- called also blowing tube, and blowpipe. (more info) 1. A blowgun. Tylor. 2. A similar instrument,
• BLOWFLY
  Any species of fly of the genus Musca that deposits its eggs or young larvæ upon meat or other animal products.
• BLOWN
  1. Swollen; inflated; distended; puffed up, as cattle when gorged with green food which develops gas. 2. Stale; worthless. 3. Out of breath; tired; exhausted. "Their horses much blown." Sir W. Scott. 4. Covered with the eggs and larvæ of flies;
• BLOWTH
  A blossoming; a bloom. "In the blowth and bud." Sir W. Raleigh.
• AROUND
  1. In a circle; circularly; on every side; round. 2. In a circuit; here and there within the surrounding space; all about; as, to travel around from town to town. 3. Near; in the neighborhood; as, this man was standing around when the fight took
• BLOWEN; BLOWESS
  A prostitute; a courtesan; a strumpet. Smart.
• BLOWZED
  Having high color from exposure to the weather; ruddy-faced; blowzy; disordered. Huge women blowzed with health and wind. Tennyson.
• BLOWPOINT
  A child's game.
• BLOWER
  A device for producing a current of air; as: A metal plate temporarily placed before the upper part of a grate or open fire. A machine for producing an artificial blast or current of air by pressure, as for increasing the draft of a
• BLOW
  To flower; to blossom; to bloom. How blows the citron grove. Milton. (more info) pluojan, MHG. bl, G. blühen, L. florere to flourish, OIr. blath
• BLOWSE
  See BLOWZE
• BLOW VALVE
  See VALVE
• BLOWGUN
  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 blowpipe, and
• BLOW-OFF
  as, a blow-off cock or pipe. 2. An outburst of temper or excitement. (more info) 1. A blowing off steam, water, etc.; -- Also, adj.
• BLOWBALL
  The downy seed head of a dandelion, which children delight to blow away. B. Jonson.
• BLOW-OUT
  The cleaning of the flues of a boiler from scale, etc., by a blast of steam.
• BLOWZE
  A ruddy, fat-faced woman; a wench. Shak.
• BLOWPIPE
  1. 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. Note: It is called a mouth blowpipe when used with the mouth; but for both chemical and industrial purposes, it
• BLOWY
  Windy; as, blowy weather; a blowy upland.
• BLOWZY
  Coarse and ruddy-faced; fat and ruddy; high colored; frowzy.
• WHITEBLOW
  See WHITLOW
• FLYBLOWN
  Tainted or contaminated with flyblows; damaged; foul. Wherever flyblown reputations were assembled. Thackeray.
• PEACHBLOW
  Of the delicate purplish pink color likened to that of peach blooms; -- applied esp. to a Chinese porcelain, small specimens of which bring great prices in the Western countries.
• OVERBLOW
  To force so much wind into a pipe that it produces an overtone, or a note higher than the natural note; thus, the upper octaves of a flute are produced by overblowing. (more info) 1. To blow over, or be subdued. Spenser.