Word Meanings - EXSUFFLATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A kind of exorcism by blowing with the breath. Jer. Taylor. (more info) 1. A blast from beneath. Bacon.
Related words: (words related to EXSUFFLATION)
- BREATHE
Etym: 1. To respire; to inhale and exhale air; hence;, to live. "I am in health, I breathe." Shak. Breathes there a man with soul so dead Sir W. Scott. 2. To take breath; to rest from action. Well! breathe awhile, and then to it again! Shak. 3. - BACON
The back and sides of a pig salted and smoked; formerly, the flesh of a pig salted or fresh. Bacon beetle , a beetle which, especially in the larval state, feeds upon bacon, woolens, furs, etc. See Dermestes. -- To save one's bacon, to save one's - BACONIAN
Of or pertaining to Lord Bacon, or to his system of philosophy. Baconian method, the inductive method. See Induction. - BLASTMENT
A sudden stroke or injury produced by some destructive cause. Shak. - 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, - 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; - BLASTOSPHERE
The hollow globe or sphere formed by the arrangement of the blastomeres on the periphery of an impregnated ovum. Note: - BREATHLESS
1. Spent with labor or violent action; out of breath. 2. Not breathing; holding the breath, on account of fear, expectation, or intense interest; attended with a holding of the breath; as, breathless attention. But breathless, as we grow - BLOWTH
A blossoming; a bloom. "In the blowth and bud." Sir W. Raleigh. - BLASTOPHORE
That portion of the spermatospore which is not converted into spermatoblasts, but carries them. - BLASTODERMATIC; BLASTODERMIC
Of or pertaining to the blastoderm. - BLOWEN; BLOWESS
A prostitute; a courtesan; a strumpet. Smart. - BLAST
blastr, OHG. blast, and fr. a verb akin to Icel. blasa to blow, OHG. blâsan, Goth. bl ; all prob. from the same root as E. blow. 1. A violent gust of wind. And see where surly Winter passes off, Far to the north, and calls his ruffian blasts; - BLOWZED
Having high color from exposure to the weather; ruddy-faced; blowzy; disordered. Huge women blowzed with health and wind. Tennyson. - BREATHABLE
Such as can be breathed. - BLOWPOINT
A child's game. - BENEATH
1. Lower in place, with something directly over or on; under; underneath; hence, at the foot of. "Beneath the mount." Ex. xxxii. - BLASTOMERE
One of the segments first formed by the division of the ovum. Balfour. - BLOWER
A device for producing a current of air; as: A metal plate temporarily placed before the upper part of a grate or open fire. A machine for producing an artificial blast or current of air by pressure, as for increasing the draft of a - DIPLOBLASTIC
Characterizing the ovum when it has two primary germinal layers. - WHITEBLOW
See WHITLOW - NEMATOBLAST
A spermatocyte or spermoblast. - ABLASTEMIC
Non-germinal. - CNIDOBLAST
One of the cells which, in the Coelenterata, develop into cnidæ. - MESOBLASTIC
Relating to the mesoblast; as, the mesoblastic layer. - UPBREATHE
To breathe up or out; to exhale. Marston. - PARABLAST
A portion of the mesoblast of the developing embryo, the cells of which are especially concerned in forming the first blood and blood vessels. C. S. Minot.