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▪ I. blasting, vbl. n.|ˈblɑːstɪŋ, -æ-|
[f. as prec. + -ing1.]
†1.
a. The production of blasts of wind or breath.
1535Coverdale Isa. lvii. 16 Y⊇ blastinge goeth fro me, though I make the breath. ― Ps. xvii. 15 At the blastinge & breth of thy displeasure.
†b. Flatulence; breaking of wind. Obs.
c1460J. Russell Bk. Nurture 304 in Babees Bk. (1868) 136 Alle wey be ware of þe hyndur part from gunnes blastynge. 1579Langham Gard. Health (1633) 28 Windinesse, belching, and blasting of the stomach and belly.
2. a. The blowing of a wind-instrument.
1862Guardian 23 Apr. 403/3 The ruthless blasting of horns and beating of drums.
b. Radio. (See quot. 1926.)
1926S. O. Pearson Dict. Wireless Techn. Terms, Blasting, term used to denote the distortion which takes place in loudspeaker or telephone signals on extra loud notes, due to working beyond the straight portion of valve characteristic. 1928Observer 29 Jan. 22/5 When the definite minimum level of sensitivity is given, so that the softer passages are not lost, heavy passages cause most distressing blasting.
3. a. Withering or shrivelling up caused by atmospheric, electric, or unseen agency.
1535Coverdale Hagg. ii. 17, I smote you with heate, blastinge & hale stones. 1552Huloet, Blastynge or Searynge, as of corne, herbes, fruite, and trees. 1607Hieron Wks. I. 452 In thy husbandry, blasting may vndoe thee. 1616Surfl. & Markh. Countr. Farm 313 Blasting, which is a corruption happening to hearbes and trees by some euill constellation. 1669Worlidge Syst. Agric. (1681) 15 Blasting hath commonly been mistaken for Mildew. 1870H. Macmillan Bible Teach. vi. 114 Blasting and mildew..had no place in the Divine ideal of a pure and holy world.
†b. A similar affection of the animal body. Obs.
1579Langham Gard. Health (1633) i, To heale inflamations, blastings and swellings of the eyes. 1607Topsell Four-f. Beasts 387 The fat..doth keep the skin of the face free from all blastings and blemishes. 1661Lovell Hist. Anim. & Min. 43 It cureth shrinking of the joints, and blasting.
c. fig. and transf.
1677Gilpin Dæmonol. (1867) 286 They have also so great a blasting upon their understanding.
†4. Calumnious whisper; scandal. (Cf. next word quot. 1603.) Obs.
a1628F. Greville Sidney (1652) 89 Saves Sir Francis Drake from blastings of Court. 1665Surv. Aff. Netherl. 169 About which matter there are not a few blastings and Factions.
5. The operation of blowing rocks to pieces; also its result or material produce. Also, the operation of breaking up ice.
1824Encycl. Brit. Suppl. II. 317 Blasting..the application of the explosive force of gunpowder, in opening or rending rocks. 1856E. K. Kane Arctic Explor. I. xxvi. 340 The blasting had succeeded; one canister cracked and uplifted two hundred square yards of ice with but five pounds of powder. 1885R. Christison Autobiog. I. iv. 96 Finding prehnite among the blastings of a trap cliff.
6. Comb. and attrib. (sense 5), as blasting-charge, blasting-fuse, blasting gelatine, blasting-powder, blasting-tools; blasting cartridge, a cartridge containing a blasting charge, usually exploded by electricity; blasting-needle, a taper piece of metal to make an aperture for a fuse; blasting-oil, nitro-glycerine.
1881Raymond Mining Gloss., Blasting-stick, a simple form of fuse. 1883Fortn. Rev. May 645 Blasting gelatine..consists of nitro-cotton..dissolved in nitro-glycerine. 1884Pall Mall G. 5 Sept. 11/1 An article on the manufacture of dynamite and nitro-glycerine, and..the still more powerful ‘explosive of the future’—blasting gelatine. 1889Cent. Dict., Blasting cartridge. 1899Westm. Gaz. 1 June 4/1 Several cavalry horses have been injured by blasting cartridges exploded under their feet.
▪ II. blasting, ppl. a.
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
1. That blasts, in various senses of the vb.; blighting, striking with baleful effect, defaming, etc.
1591Percivall Sp. Dict., Sereno, the blasting aire..sideratio. 1603Shakes. Meas. for M. v. i. 122 A blasting and a scandalous breath. 1667Milton P.L. iv. 929 The blasting volied Thunder. 1810Southey Kehama iii. ii, Is he left..alone, To bear his blasting curse? 1861Gen. P. Thompson Audi Alt. III. cxlv. 131 Every blasting abomination to be raked up in the middle ages.
2. fig. Boastful. (Sc.)
1786Har'st Rig. in Chambers Pop. Scot. Poems (1862) 44 When in a blasting tift. |