blowingn.1
/ˈbləʊɪŋ/ 1.
a. gen. The action expressed by the verb to blow v.1
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the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > wind > [noun] > blowing
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society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > playing instruments > playing wind instrument > [noun]
blowingc1000
blastc1275
blow1723
too-tooing1843
blasting1862
windjamming1886
toot-tootling1904
the world > matter > gas > air > moving air > [noun] > producing blast or current of air
blowing1495
blasting1535
winding1605
the world > matter > gas > air > moving air > [noun] > producing blast or current of air > specifically of a furnace
blowing1621
the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disrepute > damage to reputation > slander or calumny > [noun]
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calumniation?1549
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belying?1565
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blaspheming1677
aspersing1702
blowing1710
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malignation1836
mud-slinging1858
mud-throwing1864
denigration1868
mud-flinging1876
dénigrement1883
malignment1885
injurious falsehood1907
mud-sling1919
bad-mouthing1939
bad mouth1947
trash-talking1974
the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > sudden or violent sound > explosive sound > [noun]
clapc1440
back-blast1577
bouncea1616
blast1635
fulminating1651
fulmination1651
detonation1677
blow1694
explosion1736
bursting1771
blowing up1772
blowing1799
blow-up1807
pong1823
chunk-chunk1898
chunking1902
c1000 Ælfric Judges vii. 16 (Bosw.) Heora byman him to ðære blawunge.
a1422 Le Venery de Twety in T. Wright & J. O. Halliwell Reliquiæ Antiquæ (1845) I. 153 Ye shul change your speche and blowyng booth too.
1495 Trevisa's Bartholomeus De Proprietatibus Rerum (de Worde) xvii. clvii. sig. Tviiiv/1 Stoble is..full soone sette on fyre wyth fyre & wyth blowynge of wynde [a1398 BL Add. wiþ wynd].
1621 Sir R. Boyle in Lismore Pap. (1886) II. 17 My 2 new ffurnaces..had ffier to begin theer blowing put into them.
1710 S. Palmer Moral Ess. Prov. 178 This impious blowing upon other people's reputations.
1799 J. Robertson Gen. View Agric. Perth 279 Saving..boring and powder..avoiding the trouble and danger of blowing.
b. Cotton Manufacture. The cleansing of cotton. Cf. blower n.1 3c(a).
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > treating or processing textile materials > [noun] > separating or cleaning
picking1548
blowing1844
teasing1851
1844 G. Dodd Textile Manuf. Great Brit. i. 26 This process is called ‘scutching’, or ‘batting’, or ‘blowing’..and is effected in various ways..:—The cotton is laid [etc.].
1875 R. Hunt & F. W. Rudler Ure's Dict. Arts (ed. 7) I. 955 The willowing, scutching, or blowing, an operation which removes the seeds and dirt, and prepares the material in the form of a continuous lap.
c. The shattering (of a bird) in shooting. (Cf. blow v.1 24d.)
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the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > breaking or cracking > [noun] > breaking into pieces or shattering > of a specific thing
blowing1892
1892 W. W. Greener Breech-loader 271 No one could detect the ‘blowing’ of a single bird.
d. (See quot. 1881.)
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > production and development of arms > [noun] > manufacture of firearms and ammunition > processes in
fine boring1789
chambering1827
percussioning1846
coiling1862
reinforcing1868
actioning1871
blowing1881
tubage1882
flint-knapping1887
chase-hooping1888
zeroing1908
sighting-in1958
1881 Cassell's Encycl. Dict. I. ii Blowing of Firearms (Gunnery), the art or operation of constructing firearms in such a way that the vent or touch-hole is run or ‘gullied’, and becomes wide, allowing the powder to blaze out.
e. blowing off: the action or process of firing (a rifle) to cleanse the barrel.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > action of propelling missile > discharge of firearms > [noun] > cleaning
scouring1575
blowing off1893
1893 Daily News 2 Feb. 2/6 The ammunition..was issued in packets of ten, thus allowing for blowing off and for one compulsory sighting shot.
f. figurative. Boasting, bragging. U.S., Australian, etc. Cf. blow v.1 6a.
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the mind > emotion > pride > boasting or boastfulness > [noun]
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Gasconism1744
Gascoigny1754
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penny trumpet1783
cockalorum?a1792
boastfulness1810
vauntage1818
bull-flesh1820
blowing1840
vauntiness1851
kompology1854
loud-mouthing1858
skite1860
gabbing1869
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skiting1916
boosterism1926
1840 Congress. Globe App., 9 Jan. 50/1 [I advise them] to treat with contempt and scorn, all the blasting, blowing, blustering, and bullying displays they may see.
1873 A. Trollope Austral. & N.Z. I. 387 A fine art much cultivated in the colonies, for which the colonial phrase of ‘blowing’ has been created.
1878 J. H. Beadle Western Wilds ix. 134 Its bright and saucy editorials excelled all specimens extant of Kansas blowing.
2. † b. Swelling, tumefaction. Obsolete.
a. Breathing; hard breathing; esp. of animals.
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the world > life > the body > respiratory organs > breathing > audible breathing > [noun]
blowingc1175
heavy breathing1598
c1175 Lamb. Hom. 75 Hore loking, hore blawing, hore smelling, heore feling.
a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xviii. ciii. 1253 Suche bestes..holden in þe breþ and blowynge.
?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. xxxiiv Brokenne wynded and pursynes, is but shorte blowyng.
1591 R. Percyvall Bibliotheca Hispanica Dict. at Bufido The puffing and blowing of a horse.
1815 W. Scott Guy Mannering III. vi. 103 Listening for the blowing of an otter.
1883 G. C. Davies Norfolk Broads (1884) xix. 143 Until they see the ‘blowing’ of an eel, as the bubbles issuing from the mud are termed.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > swelling > [noun]
swalm?c1225
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swelling1377
blowinga1398
tumefaction1598
swelth1631
turgency1650
tumidity1828
lumping1851
nodulation1862
nodularity1948
a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xvi. lxxxvi. 870 Also he [sc. saphire] haþ singuler vertu to swage blowyng.
c. The formation of bubbles or blisters in the texture of a manufactured article.
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the world > matter > condition of matter > bad condition of matter > [noun] > formation of blisters
blowing1872
1872 Spons' Dict. Engin. V. 1547 As the pressure is kept on the metal until it is well set and solid, such a thing as blowing will never, or very seldom take place.
d. = bloat n. 1b (Cf. blow v.1 22c.)
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the world > health and disease > ill health > animal disease or disorder > disorders of cattle > [noun] > dietary disorders
dew-bolne?1523
hunger-rot?1523
grass-sick1607
grain-sick1834
hoove1840
grass staggers1858
bloat1878
wobbles1886
grain-founder1890
blowing1891
veld sickness1896
corn-stalk disease1900
cattle-sickness1903
Molteno disease1911
grass tetany1931
1891 R. Wallace Rural Econ. Austral. & N.Z. xxii. 301 Cattle not accustomed to an abundant supply of green food are liable to suffer from ‘hoven’ or ‘blowing’ after eating it.
e. Of a tin of food (see quot. 1950).
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the world > food and drink > food > qualities of food > [noun] > decay or deterioration of food > of tin
flat sour1926
blowing1950
1950 J. G. Davis Dict. Dairying 43 ‘Blowing’ of condensed milk, the bulging or bursting of tins of condensed milk usually due to the production of carbon dioxide by fermentation of the sugar by micro-organisms, usually yeasts.
3. (a) The oviposition of flesh-flies, and formerly of other insects. †(b) concrete. The ‘blote’ or egg of a flesh-fly or other insect. Obsolete.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > eggs or young > [noun] > egg(s)
niteOE
blowing1558
sperm1615
blote1657
1558 Bp. T. Watson Holsome Doctr. Seuen Sacramentes xxiv. f. cxlix A fleshe flye..wyll leaue fylthy blowinges in the fleshe.
1577 W. Harrison Hist. Descr. Islande Brit. iii. xii. f. 111v/2, in R. Holinshed Chron. I Beyond the sea, where they stampe and straine their combes, Bees, & young Blowinges altogither into the stuffe.
1616 G. Markham tr. C. Estienne et al. Maison Rustique (rev. ed.) ii. lxiii. 320 Bees are bred of Bees, either of their blowings, or some other matter of their generation.
a1676 M. Hale Primitive Originat. Mankind (1677) ii. ix. 209 The blowings of Flies, and almost all kind of Insects.
4. blowing up n. an explosion; colloquial a scolding.
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > sudden or violent sound > explosive sound > [noun]
clapc1440
back-blast1577
bouncea1616
blast1635
fulminating1651
fulmination1651
detonation1677
blow1694
explosion1736
bursting1771
blowing up1772
blowing1799
blow-up1807
pong1823
chunk-chunk1898
chunking1902
the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > rebuke or reproof > [noun] > scolding > instance of
Kyrie15..
Kyrie eleison1528
chide1538
wormwood lecture1640
rant1663
scold1726
trimming1763
blowing up1772
set-to1774
set-down1780
ragging1788
scouting1794
hurl?a1800
hearing1816
heckling1832
twisting1834
downsetting1842
going-over1843
shrewing1847
call1862
tongue-lashing1881
tongue-walking1888
telling-off1893
rousting1900
lumps1935
fourpenny one1936
rucking1958
1772 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 63 44 The blowing up of a magazine of gun-powder.
1820 G. Simpson Jrnl. 18 Aug. in Publ. Hudson's Bay Rec. Soc. (1938) 1 i. 17 Mr. Clarke gave him what is vulgarly called ‘a good blowing up’.
1840 T. C. Haliburton Let. Bag Great Western (U.K. ed.) iv. 58 If boy George did not clean my boots..I would give him a blowing-up.
1874 Mrs. H. Wood Johnny Ludlow 1st Ser. xxv. 448 I..received a good blowing up from Mr. Brandon for my pains.
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C1. † blowing-house n. Obsolete a tin-smelting house.
blowing-cone n. a volcanic cone by which vapours escape from a subterranean molten lake.
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the world > the earth > structure of the earth > structural features > volcanic formations > [noun] > volcanic vent
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vent1604
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spiraculum1670
spiracle1671
solfatara1764
sulphur1764
volcanic crater1776
fumarole1811
air volcano1814
mud volcano1816
salse1831
blowhole1858
pipe1877
soufrière1879
bocca1881
mofette1887
pan1888
blowing-cone1895
smoke-hole1899
fault-vent1903
1895 J. D. Dana Man. Geol. (ed. 4) 279 In cases, outside of the lava-lakes, where the bubbles are bursting beneath an opening in the bottom of the crater, the vapors and lava driblets escape from the aperture with a rush and a roar. The driblet-cone, thus made, is sometimes called a blowing-cone.
blowing-cylinder n. the air-cylinder of a blast-engine.
blowing-engine n. = blowing-machine n.
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the world > matter > gas > air > moving air > [noun] > device for producing blast of air
blower1795
blaster1830
blowing-machine1835
blowing-engine1845
blast-engine1875
blast-fan1879
1845 G. Dodd Brit. Manuf. 5th Ser. 159 Blowing-Engine.
blowing-furnace n. a blast furnace used in glass-working.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > furnace or kiln > furnace > [noun] > glass-making furnaces
glass-furnace1632
calcar1662
leer1662
pot furnace1839
blowing-furnace1875
tank furnace1879
1875 R. Hunt & F. W. Rudler Ure's Dict. Arts (ed. 7) II. 654 A blowing furnace for blowing the pear-shaped balls..into large globes.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > furnace or kiln > furnace > [noun] > building or room containing furnace > in tin or tinplate manufacture
blowing-house1674
stow1839
1674 J. Ray Prepar. Tin Coll. 120 The black Tin is smelted at the blowing house with Charcoal.
1875 R. Hunt & F. W. Rudler Ure's Dict. Arts (ed. 7) III. 1005 Formerly in Cornwall nearly all the tin was smelted in blast-furnaces; these works were called blowing-houses.
blowing-iron n. Glass-working an iron tube used in blowing glass.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > glass-making equipment > [noun] > shaping equipment
ferret1662
punty1662
puntilion1665
pucellas1701
casting-table1728
marble1745
pinching tongs1765
borsella1823
punt1823
marver1832
pontil1832
punto1839
working tube1841
bullion-bar1852
blowing-iron1855
bullion-rod1862
blowpipec1865
pointel1865
gadget1868
casting-slaba1877
casting-plate1881
glass-cutter1881
sand core1894
polissoir1897
pontil rod1934
blowing-machine1940
blowing-pipe-
blowing-tube-
1855 F. B. Palliser tr. J. Labarte Handbk. Arts Middle Ages & Renaissance ix. 352 Gathers with the blowing-iron a small quantity of white glass.
blowing-machine n. (a) any mechanical contrivance for producing a blast of air; (b) a machine for cleansing and separating fur in hat-manufacture; (c) an apparatus forming part of the machine for cleansing the cotton in cotton-manufacture; (d) an apparatus for blowing glass-ware ( Cent. Dict., 1889).
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the world > matter > gas > air > moving air > [noun] > device for producing blast of air
blower1795
blaster1830
blowing-machine1835
blowing-engine1845
blast-engine1875
blast-fan1879
the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > treating or processing textile materials > [noun] > separating or cleaning > separating or cleaning with machine > machine
picker1795
wool-mill1819
blowing-machine1835
willow1835
willy1835
twilly1858
blower1867
wilger1871
shake willey1875
wolf1875
society > occupation and work > equipment > glass-making equipment > [noun] > shaping equipment
ferret1662
punty1662
puntilion1665
pucellas1701
casting-table1728
marble1745
pinching tongs1765
borsella1823
punt1823
marver1832
pontil1832
punto1839
working tube1841
bullion-bar1852
blowing-iron1855
bullion-rod1862
blowpipec1865
pointel1865
gadget1868
casting-slaba1877
casting-plate1881
glass-cutter1881
sand core1894
polissoir1897
pontil rod1934
blowing-machine1940
blowing-pipe-
blowing-tube-
1835 A. Ure Philos. Manuf. ii. ii. 111 The blowing machine for thoroughly opening out the cotton into clean individual fibres.
1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 345 Batting (beating), scutching, and blowing machines.
1845 G. Dodd Brit. Manuf. 5th Ser. 158 The ‘blowing-machines’..act as follows.
1868 F. H. Joynson Metals in Constr. i. 18 The blast from the blowing machine is conducted into the furnace by means of the tuyers.
1940 Chambers's Techn. Dict. 99/1 Blowing machines, machines for forming molten glass into articles by the use of air under pressure.
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blowing-pipe n. Glass-working = blowing-iron n.
blowing-pot n. a vessel containing clay paste which the workman ‘throws’ on pottery by blowing.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > pottery manufacturing equipment > [noun] > for holding clay
blowing-pot1875
1875 R. Hunt & F. W. Rudler Ure's Dict. Arts (ed. 7) III. 622 Common earthenware is coloured by means of..the blowing-pot.
blowing-room n. a room in which the cleansing or separating of materials is done, esp. in a cotton factory; also attributive, as (card and) blowing-room hand, operative, machinery.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > treating or processing textile materials > [adjective] > place for cleansing or separating
blowing-room1845
the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > treating or processing textile materials > [noun] > separating or cleaning > place for
blowing-room1845
blow-room1908
1845 G. Dodd Brit. Manuf. 5th Ser. 158 The fur..is conveyed to the blowing-room, finally to effect the separation [of the coarse from the fine fur].
1887 J. E. Holme Cotton Spinning Introd. The blowing-room machinery should be kept well oiled.
1892 Daily News 14 Apr. 3/4 The card and blowing-room hands.
1898 Westm. Gaz. 23 Dec. 7/3 The Card and Blowing-room Operatives Society.
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blowing-tube n. Glass-working = blowing-iron n.
C2. With adverbs.
blowing-in n. the action or process of putting a blast furnace into action (see blow v.1 19a).
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society > occupation and work > industry > working with tools or equipment > [noun] > furnace > putting into operation
blow-in1888
blowing-in1925
1925 Jrnl. Iron & Steel Inst. 112 409 The methods pursued..in the blowing in, damping down, and blowing out of blast furnaces.
blowing-off n. = blow-off n. (a) at blow- comb. form 1.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > machines which impart power > boiler > [noun] > removal of water or air from
surface blow-off1852
blowing-off1863
blowing-througha1877
society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > machines which impart power > boiler > [adjective] > apparatus for blowing off steam
blowing-off1863
blow-througha1877
1863 E. Atkinson tr. A. Ganot Elem. Treat. Physics vi. 328 Blowing off taps, for use when the pistons are in motion.
blowing-out n. the action or process of putting a blast furnace out of action (see blow v.1 19a).
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society > occupation and work > industry > working with tools or equipment > [noun] > furnace > ceasing to stoke
blowing-out1944
1944 Jrnl. Iron & Steel Inst. 150 378P From blowing-in to blowing-out furnace operation is handicapped, because we do not know what is going on inside the furnace.
blowing-through n. = blow-through n. at blow- comb. form 1.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > machines which impart power > boiler > [noun] > removal of water or air from
surface blow-off1852
blowing-off1863
blowing-througha1877
a1877 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. I. Blowing-off... Blowing-through.
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blowingn.2
a. The action of blossoming or blooming.
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the world > plants > part of plant > reproductive part(s) > flower or part containing reproductive organs > flower or flowering plant > [noun] > flowering or blossoming
flourishing1303
blowingc1380
blossomingc1440
blooming1495
flourish1594
blowth1602
efflorescence1626
flowering1629
blow1744
florification1796
inflorescence1801
flowerage1841
florescence1853
floriferousness1882
c1380 Eng. Wycliffite Serm. in Sel. Wks. I. 220 Þe blowinge of þes fruitys must faile.
1609 C. Butler Feminine Monarchie iv. sig. D7 At the blowing of palme..they [wasps] fly abroad for food.
1797 T. Holcroft tr. F. L. Stolberg Trav. (ed. 2) III. lxix. 58 Flowers..whose periodical blowing is advertised in our newspapers.
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the world > plants > part of plant > reproductive part(s) > flower or part containing reproductive organs > [noun] > blossom or flower(s)
blossom971
bledec975
blooma1400
flourishinga1400
floweringa1400
flourisha1500
blowing1578
blooming1622
pip1753
floriage1782
florescence1793
blow1797
flowerage1831
bloom-flinder1840
gosling1847–78
snow1859
fleuret1868
bloomagea1876
blossomry1901
1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball 692 Clustering togither lyke the cattes tayles or blowinges of the Nut tree.
1660 E. Waterhouse Disc. Arms & Armory 184 These budds and blowings of Nobility and Gentry.
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blowingadj.1
That blows (see the verb); esp. windy. blowing adder n., blowing snake a snake of Virginia, remarkable for inflating and extending the surface of its head before it bites.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > eggs or young > [adjective] > that deposits eggs
blowing1604
the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > wind > [adjective] > windy
windyc1000
airy1591
flatulent1671
blowing1678
breezy1751
west-windy1827
blowy1830
the world > movement > motion in specific manner > irregular movement or agitation > [adjective] > tossing about > blown about by the wind
free-blowing1732
blowing1845
blowy1864
the world > animals > reptiles > order Squamata (lizards and snakes) > suborder Ophidia (snakes) > types of snake > [noun] > family Colubridae > member of genus Heterodon (hog-nose)
hognose1737
hog-nosed snake?a1808
spreading adder1836
adder1842
spread head1844
puff adder1882
blowing adder1884
spread adder1902
c1175 Lamb. Hom. 87 Eislic swei . and blawende beman.
1604 Friar Bacon's Proph. 290 in W. C. Hazlitt Remains Early Pop. Poetry Eng. IV. 278 No butcher now can keepe His flesh from blowing flies.
1678 London Gaz. No. 1365/1 His Majesties Ships..are kept in this Harbor by the blowing weather.
1694 J. Clayton in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 18 134 The Blowing-Snake, an absolute Species of a Viper.
1794 Ld. Nelson in Dispatches & Lett. (1845) I. 411 It had the appearance of blowing weather.
1845 Gardeners' Chron. 15 Feb. 107 Blowing-Sands..or hills of moveable sand which are accumulated by the winds.
1868 A. C. Swinburne in Fortn. Rev. July 35 With rounded mouth and blowing hair.
1884 Public Opinion 5 Sept. 305/1 The blowing adder was formerly common in..Orange County, New York.
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blowingadj.2
Blossoming, in bloom.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > sound of instruments > [adjective] > sound of wind instruments
blowing917
the world > plants > part of plant > reproductive part(s) > flower or part containing reproductive organs > flower or flowering plant > [adjective] > having flowers or blossom > in bloom
blownc1000
full-blown1576
flowering1592
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flowered1633
in bloom1645
new-blown1656
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in flower1697
in (their) flowers1697
abloom1729
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aflower1869
917 Blickl. Hom. 57 Fægerness..swylc þes blowenda wudu.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost ix. 629 One small Thicket..Of blowing Myrrh and Balme. View more context for this quotation
1835 W. Wordsworth Death Charles Lamb Green, untrodden turf, and blowing flowers.
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