blowpointt (blopoint)

A game supposed to have consisted in blowing small pins or arrows through a tube at certain numbers. Shortly boys shall not play At span-counter or blow - point , but shall pay Toll to some courtier. Donne, Satires, iv. See blouse . blowsel, n. blowse2, n. See blowze. Mir. for Mags ., p. 112. II. in trans. To swell; protrude. blubber (blub'er), v . [Also blobber ; blub ren , bloberen , weep, earlier bubble, boil, as water in agitation. Cf. G. dial. blubbern , cast up bubbles, as water, LG. herut blubbern , babble, chatter. Appar. an imitative word, having, like many such, a freq. form. The short forms blub and blob are modern. Cf. blub, blob, blab, bleb .] I. in trans . 1. To weep, especially in such a manner as to swell the cheeks or disfigure the face; burst into a fit of weeping: used chiefly in sarcasm or ridicule. blowser (blou'zèr), n. [E. dial.] In pilchard- fishing , on the south coast of England, one of the men engaged in landing and carrying the fish to the curing-houses. Encyc. Brit., IX. 254. blowth (blōth), n. [ -th , after growth , lective sense; the state of blo oming. [Now only dialectal in S. W. England (in the form blooth ) and in New England.] IMG:content-2225.png:[blocks in formation] were as yet but potential, and in the blowth and bud. Raleigh, Hist. World, I. ix. § 3. With us a single blo om is a blow, while blowth means the blo oming in general. A farmer would say that there was a good blowth on his fruit-trees. Lowell, Biglow Papers, 2d ser., Int. blow-through (blō'thrö), a. Pertaining to or used in the proce of blowing through (which see, under blowl, v., I.).- Blow-through cock, a faucet through which the air that may be contained in a steam-chamber is blown out when steam is admitted.Blow-through valve, a valve in the opening through which steam enters a condensing steam-engine, used in blowing through.