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▪ I. overblow, v.1|əʊvəˈbləʊ|
[f. over- 4, 6, 9, 27, 26 + blow v.1]
1. trans. To blow (a thing) over the top of anything, over one's head, etc.; to blow off or away.
1387Trevisa Higden (Rolls) VI. 95 But al þe creem and fatnesse of þat mylke..schulde be overblowe and i-take awey. 1471Ripley Comp. Alch. Rec. iv. in Ashm. Theatr. Chem. Brit. (1652) 187 Than clouds of darknes be overblowyn & all aperyth faire. 1601B. Jonson Forest, Epode 36 This doth from the cloud of Error grow, Which thus we ouer-blow. 1659Fuller App. Inj. Innoc. (1840) 363 The best way to over-blow this fear is, to confute the five arguments. 1718Watts Ps. lvii. i, Hide me beneath thy spreading wings, Till the dark cloud is over-blown.
2. intr. Of a storm: To blow over, to pass away overhead; to abate in violence; hence fig. of danger, anger, passion, etc.: To pass away, to be past. (Perf. tenses often with be.)
c1385Chaucer L.G.W. 1287 Dido, The hote ernest is al ouerblowe. 1390Gower Conf. II. 396 The colde wyndes overblowe, And stille be the scharpe schoures. 1503Hawes Examp. Virt. v. 8 Sythens that your wyldnes is ouerblowen. 1575Churchyard Chippes (1817) 193 But all those blasts, in fine did ouerbloe. 1690Dryden Don Sebastian v. i, The tempest is o'erblown, the skies are clear. 1829Carlyle Misc. (1857) II. 11 There lies land-locked till the hurricane is overblown.
3. trans. To blow (a thing) over, to overthrow or upset by blowing; to blow down.
1562J. Heywood Prov. & Epigr. (1867) 163 This winde will ouer blow vs first I trow. 1585Lupton Thous. Notable Th. (1675) 2 A certain Poet did wear leaden soles under his shoos, lest the wind should overblow him. 1608Hieron Def. Ministers' Reasons Refus. Subscr. ii. 171 Which neither..the windes nor waves of his answeres will overflow or over⁓blow. 1631R. H. Arraignm. Whole Creature xii. §4. 128 To overthrow, and overblow her strongest Bulwarkes.
4. trans. To blow over the surface of; to cover by blowing over (as sand or snow does).
c1420Pallad. on Husb. i. 808 So shal ereither werk ben ouerblowe With coold or hoot vndir the signys twelue. c1630Risdon Surv. Devon §328 (1810) 338 The Sand..hath overblown many hundred acres of land. 1794Hutchinson Hist. Cumberld. I. 258 note, Sheep..when overblown and buried in snow by a storm. 1830Tennyson Ode to Memory v, A sand-built ridge..Overblown with murmurs harsh. 1872Whittier Penn. Pilgrim 514 The music the wind drew..from leaves it overblew.
†5. intr. Naut. Of the wind: To blow with excessive violence; to blow too hard for top-sails to be carried. Obs.
1599Hakluyt Voy. II. 185 To get out the ship..was vnpossible, for the winde was contrary and ouerblowed. 1622R. Hawkins Voy. S. Sea (1847) 20 If the wind had not over-blowne, and that to follow them I was forced to shut all my lower ports, the ship I undertooke..had never endured to come to the port. 1627Capt. Smith Seaman's Gram. x. 46 It ouer blowes when we can beare no top-sailes. 1726Swift Gulliver ii. i, Finding it was like to overblow, we took in our sprit-sail. 1823in Crabb Technol. Dict.
6. trans. Music. To blow or play (a pipe or wind-instrument) with such force as to produce a harmonic or overtone instead of the fundamental note. Also refl. (of the pipe or instrument) and intr. for refl.
1852Seidel Organ 79 The pipe will over-blow itself, that is it will sound an octave higher. 1880E. J. Hopkins in Grove Dict. Mus. II. 575/1 An organ thus supplied with wind could not be over-blown. 1938Oxf. Compan. Mus. 228/1 The cornet is horrible when overblown. 1946Mezzrow & Wolfe Really Blues (1957) 363 They have to overblow their instruments, fighting to be heard. 1956M. Stearns Story of Jazz (1957) xvii. 214 Benny Goodman reacted differently: ‘This is the first time..that I've ever heard a tenor sax played the way it should be and not overblown.’ 1976Early Music Oct. 511/1 Then Jacob Denner (1732) developed an instrument, which, by means of a key, overblew into the higher register, at an interval of an octave plus a tritone (the modern clarinet overblows at an interval of a twelfth).
7. Metallurgy. To subject (a charge) to an excessive length of blast. Cf. overblown ppl. a.1 3.
1869Chem. News 9 Apr. 170/2 If a charge is ‘over⁓blown’—that is, if it be subjected to the action of the air for too long a period,..the steel will be found to be defective in proportion to its unskilful treatment. 1932E. Gregson Metall. ii. 32 Great experience is necessary at this point, since if the metal is ‘over-blown’ for only 15 seconds, steels containing a large proportion of iron oxide are obtained. 1951G. R. Bashforth Manuf. Iron & Steel II. ii. 26 Frequently a heat that has been overblown may be dirty.
▪ II. overˈblow, v.2 rare.
[f. over- 8 + blow v.2]
trans. To cover with blossom.
1856Mrs. Browning Aur. Leigh vii. 58 He overblows an ugly grave With violets which blossom in the spring.
▪ III. overblow, n. Metallurgy.|ˈəʊvəbləʊ|
[f. overblow v.1]
A period or instance of overblowing.
1879Jrnl. Iron & Steel Inst. 158 One minute overblow and the phosphorus came down to ·75 per cent. 1946Ibid. CLII. 12p This rather long overblow only caused a reduction of about 0·03% in the blown-metal carbon content. |