Blower: Definition and part of speech

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.
  7. 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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