Word Meanings - OVERBLOW - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To force so much wind into a pipe that it produces an overtone, or a note higher than the natural note; thus, the upper octaves of a flute are produced by overblowing. (more info) 1. To blow over, or be subdued. Spenser.

Related words: (words related to OVERBLOW)

• FORCE
  To stuff; to lard; to farce. Wit larded with malice, and malice forced with wit. Shak.
• PRODUCIBILITY
  The quality or state of being producible. Barrow.
• HIGHER-UP
  A superior officer or official; -- used chiefly in pl.
• NATURALIST
  1. One versed in natural science; a student of natural history, esp. of the natural history of animals. 2. One who holds or maintains the doctrine of naturalism in religion. H. Bushnell.
• NATURAL STEEL
  Steel made by the direct refining of cast iron in a finery, or, as wootz, by a direct process from the ore.
• UPPERMOST
  Highest in place, position, rank, power, or the like; upmost; supreme. Whatever faction happens to be uppermost. Swift.
• HIGHERING
  Rising higher; ascending. In ever highering eagle circles. Tennyson.
• FLUTED
  1. Thin; fine; clear and mellow; flutelike; as, fluted notes. Busby. 2. Decorated with flutes; channeled; grooved; as, a fluted column; a fluted ruffle; a fluted spectrum.
• PRODUCEMENT
  Production.
• SUBDUCE; SUBDUCT
  1. To withdraw; to take away. Milton. 2. To subtract by arithmetical operation; to deduct. If, out of that infinite multitude of antecedent generations, we should subduce ten. Sir M. Hale.
• SUBDUAL
  Act of subduing. Bp. Warburton.
• NATURAL
  Belonging to, to be taken in, or referred to, some system, in which the base is 1; -- said or certain functions or numbers; as, natural numbers, those commencing at 1; natural sines, cosines, etc., those taken in arcs whose radii are 1. (more info)
• FORCEPS
  The caudal forceps-shaped appendage of earwigs and some other insects. See Earwig. Dressing forceps. See under Dressing. (more info) 1. A pair of pinchers, or tongs; an instrument for grasping, holding firmly, or exerting traction upon, bodies
• UPPERTENDOM
  The highest class in society; the upper ten. See Upper ten, under Upper.
• NATURALIZE
  1. To make natural; as, custom naturalizes labor or study. 2. To confer the rights and privileges of a native subject or citizen on; to make as if native; to adopt, as a foreigner into a nation or state, and place in the condition of
• SUBDUABLE
  Able to be subdued.
• PRODUCTIVITY
  The quality or state of being productive; productiveness. Emerson. Not indeed as the product, but as the producing power, the productivity. Coleridge.
• PRODUCTUS
  An extinct genus of brachiopods, very characteristic of the Carboniferous rocks.
• FLUTEMOUTH
  A fish of the genus Aulostoma, having a much elongated tubular snout.
• FORCEFUL
  Full of or processing force; exerting force; mighty. -- Force"ful*ly, adv. Against the steed he threw His forceful spear. Dryden.
• SUPERNATURALNESS
  The quality or state of being supernatural.
• REINFORCEMENT
  See REëNFORCEMENT
• PRETERNATURALITY
  Preternaturalness. Dr. John Smith.
• DEFORCEOR
  See DEFORCIANT
• OVERPRODUCTION
  Excessive production; supply beyond the demand. J. S. Mill.
• REENFORCE
  To strengthen with new force, assistance, material, or support; as, to reënforce an argument; to reënforce a garment; especially, to strengthen with additional troops, as an army or a fort, or with additional ships, as a fleet.
• DEFORCE
  To keep from the rightful owner; to withhold wrongfully the possession of, as of lands or a freehold. To resist the execution of the law; to oppose by force, as an officer in the execution of his duty. Burrill.
• DISPENSER
  One who, or that which, dispenses; a distributer; as, a dispenser of favors.