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An instrument, utensil, or machine, which, by alternate expansion and contraction, or by rise and fall of the top, draws in air through a valve and expels it through a tube for various purposes, as blowing fires, ventilating mines, or filling the

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An instrument, utensil, or machine, which, by alternate expansion and contraction, or by rise and fall of the top, draws in air through a valve and expels it through a tube for various purposes, as blowing fires, ventilating mines, or filling the pipes of an organ with wind. Bellows camera, in photography, a form of camera, which can be drawn out like an accordion or bellows. -- Hydrostatic bellows. See Hydrostatic. -- A pair of bellows, the ordinary household instrument for blowing fires, consisting of two nearly heart-shaped boards with handles, connected by leather, and having a valve and tube. (more info) bælg, bælig, bag, bellows, belly. Bellows is prop. a pl. and the

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• VALVE-SHELL
  Any fresh-water gastropod of the genus Valvata.
• MACHINER
  One who or operates a machine; a machinist.
• VENTILATE
  brandish in the air, to fan, to winnow, from ventus wind; akin to E. 1. To open and expose to the free passage of air; to supply with fresh air, and remove impure air from; to air; as, to ventilate a room; to ventilate a cellar; to ventilate a
• INSTRUMENTAL
  Pertaining to, made by, or prepared for, an instrument, esp. a musical instrument; as, instrumental music, distinguished from vocal music. "He defended the use of instrumental music in public worship." Macaulay. Sweet voices mix'd with instrumental
• FILLIPEEN
  See PHILOPENA
• FILLIBEG
  A kilt. See Filibeg.
• VENTILATION
  1. The act of ventilating, or the state of being ventilated; the art or process of replacing foul air by that which is pure, in any inclosed place, as a house, a church, a mine, etc.; free exposure to air. Insuring, for the laboring man, better
• BLOWTUBE
  A long wrought iron tube, on the end of which the workman gathers a quantity of "metal" , and through which he blows to expand or shape it; -- called also blowing tube, and blowpipe. (more info) 1. A blowgun. Tylor. 2. A similar instrument,
• FILLETING
  The protecting of a joint, as between roof and parapet wall, with mortar, or cement, where flashing is employed in better work. 2. The material of which fillets are made; also, fillets, collectively.
• BLOWFLY
  Any species of fly of the genus Musca that deposits its eggs or young larvæ upon meat or other animal products.
• BLOWN
  1. Swollen; inflated; distended; puffed up, as cattle when gorged with green food which develops gas. 2. Stale; worthless. 3. Out of breath; tired; exhausted. "Their horses much blown." Sir W. Scott. 4. Covered with the eggs and larvæ of flies;
• FILLER
  One who, or that which, fills; something used for filling. 'T is mere filer, to stop a vacancy in the hexameter. Dryden. They have six diggers to four fillers, so as to keep the fillers always at work. Mortimer.
• UTENSIL
  That which is used; an instrument; an implement; especially, an instrument or vessel used in a kitchen, or in domestic and farming business. Wagons fraught with utensils of war. Milton. (more info) utensilis that may be used, fit for use, fr. uti,
• BLOWTH
  A blossoming; a bloom. "In the blowth and bud." Sir W. Raleigh.
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• ALTERNATENESS
  The quality of being alternate, or of following by turns.
• BLOWEN; BLOWESS
  A prostitute; a courtesan; a strumpet. Smart.
• BLOWZED
  Having high color from exposure to the weather; ruddy-faced; blowzy; disordered. Huge women blowzed with health and wind. Tennyson.
• DRAWSHAVE
  See KNIFE
• INSTRUMENTALITY
  The quality or condition of being instrumental; that which is instrumental; anything used as a means; medium; agency. The instrumentality of faith in justification. Bp. Burnet. The discovery of gunpowder developed the science of attack and defense
• GRAMME MACHINE
  A kind of dynamo-electric machine; -- so named from its French inventor, M. Gramme. Knight.
• INEQUIVALVE; INEQUIVALVULAR
  Having unequal valves, as the shell of an oyster.
• BURRING MACHINE
  A machine for cleansing wool of burs, seeds, and other substances.
• DREAMINESS
  The state of being dreamy.
• PILOT VALVE
  A small hand-operated valve to admit liquid to operate a valve difficult to turn by hand.
• MULTIVALVE; MULTIVALVULAR
  Many-valved; having more than two valves; -- said of certain shells, as the chitons. (more info) 1. Having many valves.
• SLIMINESS
  The quality or state of being slimy.
• WHITEBLOW
  See WHITLOW
• SUBALTERNATE
  1. Succeeding by turns; successive. 2. Subordinate; subaltern; inferior. All their subalternate and several kinds. Evelyn.
• EVENTILATION
  The act of eventilating; discussion. Bp. Berkely.
• GEMMINESS
  The state or quality of being gemmy; spruceness; smartness.
• GLIDING MACHINE
  A construction consisting essentially of one or more aëroplanes for gliding in an inclined path from a height to the ground.