Word Meanings - EXSUFFLATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A kind of exorcism by blowing with the breath. Jer. Taylor. (more info) 1. A blast from beneath. Bacon.

Related words: (words related to EXSUFFLATION)

• BREATHE
  Etym: 1. To respire; to inhale and exhale air; hence;, to live. "I am in health, I breathe." Shak. Breathes there a man with soul so dead Sir W. Scott. 2. To take breath; to rest from action. Well! breathe awhile, and then to it again! Shak. 3.
• BACON
  The back and sides of a pig salted and smoked; formerly, the flesh of a pig salted or fresh. Bacon beetle , a beetle which, especially in the larval state, feeds upon bacon, woolens, furs, etc. See Dermestes. -- To save one's bacon, to save one's
• BACONIAN
  Of or pertaining to Lord Bacon, or to his system of philosophy. Baconian method, the inductive method. See Induction.
• BLASTMENT
  A sudden stroke or injury produced by some destructive cause. Shak.
• 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;
• BLASTOSPHERE
  The hollow globe or sphere formed by the arrangement of the blastomeres on the periphery of an impregnated ovum. Note:
• BREATHLESS
  1. Spent with labor or violent action; out of breath. 2. Not breathing; holding the breath, on account of fear, expectation, or intense interest; attended with a holding of the breath; as, breathless attention. But breathless, as we grow
• BLOWTH
  A blossoming; a bloom. "In the blowth and bud." Sir W. Raleigh.
• BLASTOPHORE
  That portion of the spermatospore which is not converted into spermatoblasts, but carries them.
• BLASTODERMATIC; BLASTODERMIC
  Of or pertaining to the blastoderm.
• BLOWEN; BLOWESS
  A prostitute; a courtesan; a strumpet. Smart.
• BLAST
  blastr, OHG. blast, and fr. a verb akin to Icel. blasa to blow, OHG. blâsan, Goth. bl ; all prob. from the same root as E. blow. 1. A violent gust of wind. And see where surly Winter passes off, Far to the north, and calls his ruffian blasts;
• BLOWZED
  Having high color from exposure to the weather; ruddy-faced; blowzy; disordered. Huge women blowzed with health and wind. Tennyson.
• BREATHABLE
  Such as can be breathed.
• BLOWPOINT
  A child's game.
• BENEATH
  1. Lower in place, with something directly over or on; under; underneath; hence, at the foot of. "Beneath the mount." Ex. xxxii.
• BLASTOMERE
  One of the segments first formed by the division of the ovum. Balfour.
• 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
• DIPLOBLASTIC
  Characterizing the ovum when it has two primary germinal layers.
• WHITEBLOW
  See WHITLOW
• NEMATOBLAST
  A spermatocyte or spermoblast.
• ABLASTEMIC
  Non-germinal.
• CNIDOBLAST
  One of the cells which, in the Coelenterata, develop into cnidæ.
• MESOBLASTIC
  Relating to the mesoblast; as, the mesoblastic layer.
• UPBREATHE
  To breathe up or out; to exhale. Marston.
• PARABLAST
  A portion of the mesoblast of the developing embryo, the cells of which are especially concerned in forming the first blood and blood vessels. C. S. Minot.