dictionary definitions for "blower"


From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Puffer \Puff"er\, n.
     1. One who puffs; one who praises with noisy or extravagant
        commendation.
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     2. One who is employed by the owner or seller of goods sold
        at suction to bid up the price; a by-bidder. --Bouvier.
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     3. (Zool.)
        (a) Any plectognath fish which inflates its body, as the
            species of Tetrodon and Diodon of the family
            Tetraodontidae; -- called also blower,
            puff-fish, swellfish, and globefish. They are
            highly poisonous due to the presence of glands
            containing a potent toxin, tetrodotoxin.
            Nevertheless they are eaten as a delicacy in Japan,
            being prepared by specially licensed chefs who remove
            the poison glands.
        (b) The common, or harbor, porpoise.
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     4. (Dyeing) A kier.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Blower \Blow"er\, n.
     1. One who, or that which, blows.
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     2. (Mech.) 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.
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     3. A blowing out or excessive discharge of gas from a hole or
        fissure in a mine.
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     4. The whale; -- so called by seamen, from the circumstance
        of its spouting up a column of water.
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     5. (Zool.) A small fish of the Atlantic coast ({Tetrodon
        turgidus}); the puffer.
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     6. A braggart, or loud talker. [Slang] --Bartlett.
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  blower
      n 1: a device that produces a current of air
      2: a fan run by an electric motor [syn: electric fan,
         blower]
      3: large aquatic carnivorous mammal with fin-like forelimbs no
         hind limbs, including: whales; dolphins; porpoises; narwhals
         [syn: cetacean, cetacean mammal, blower]


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