Blue book

1. The United States official “Biennial Register.”
2. A parliamentary publication, so called from its blue paper covers.

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Bluebottle

1. n. A large and troublesome species of blowfly (Musca vomitoria). Its body is steel blue.
2. n. A plant (Centaurea cyanus) which grows in grain fields. It receives its name from its blue bottle-shaped flowers.

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Bluebreast

1. n. A small European bird; the blue-throated warbler.

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Blowball

1. n. The downy seed head of a dandelion, which children delight to blow away.

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Blowen

1. n. Alt. of Blowess

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Blowess

1. n. A prostitute; a courtesan; a strumpet.

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Blower

1. n. A braggart, or loud talker.
2. n. One who, or that which, blows.
3. n. A device for producing a current of air; as: (a) A metal plate temporarily placed before the upper part of a grate or open fire. (b) A machine for producing an artificial blast or current of air by pressure, as for increasing the draft of a furnace, ventilating a building or shaft, cleansing gram, etc.
4. n. A blowing out or excessive discharge of gas from a hole or fissure in a mine.
5. n. The whale; — so called by seamen, from the circumstance of its spouting up a column of water.
6. n. A small fish of the Atlantic coast (Tetrodon turgidus); the puffer.

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Blowfly

1. n. Any species of fly of the genus Musca that deposits its eggs or young larvae (called flyblows and maggots) upon meat or other animal products.

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Blowgun

1. n. 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 blowtube. See Sumpitan.

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Blowhole

1. n. An air hole in a casting.
2. n. A cavern in a cliff, at the water level, opening to the air at its farther extremity, so that the waters rush in with each surge and rise in a lofty jet from the extremity.
3. n. A nostril or spiracle in the top of the head of a whale or other cetacean.
4. n. A hole in the ice to which whales, seals, etc., come to breathe.

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