Blow: Definition and part of speech

Blow

  1. n. An egg, or a larva, deposited by a fly on or in flesh, or the act of depositing it.
  2. v. i. To flower; to blossom; to bloom.
  3. v. t. To cause to blossom; to put forth (blossoms or flowers).
  4. n. A blossom; a flower; also, a state of blossoming; a mass of blossoms.
  5. n. A forcible stroke with the hand, fist, or some instrument, as a rod, a club, an ax, or a sword.
  6. n. A sudden or forcible act or effort; an assault.
  7. n. The infliction of evil; a sudden calamity; something which produces mental, physical, or financial suffering or loss (esp. when sudden); a buffet.
  8. v. i. To produce a current of air; to move, as air, esp. to move rapidly or with power; as, the wind blows.
  9. v. i. To send forth a forcible current of air, as from the mouth or from a pair of bellows.
  10. v. i. To breathe hard or quick; to pant; to puff.
  11. 1n. 1 An egg, or a larva, deposited by a fly on or in flesh, or the act of depositing it.
  12. 1v. i. 1 To flower; to blossom; to bloom.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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