blowhole (blohol)

1. The nostril of a IMG:content-2223.png:[blocks in formation] No blown ambition doth our arms incite. Shak ., Lear, iv. 4. I come with no blown spirit to abuse you. Beau. and Fl., Little French Lawyer, iii. 2. 2. Spongy or porous from the presence of bubbles of air or gas: said of metal castings.-3. Stale from exposure, as to air or flies; hence, tainted; unsavory: as, blown drink (obsolete); blown meat; a blown reputation. See flyblown. 4. Out of breath; tired; exhausted: as, “their horses much blown,” Scott. 'Zounds! I am quite out of breath-Sir, I am come to Whew! I beg pardon - but, as you perceive, I am devilishly blown . Colman the Younger , Poor Gentleman, iii. 3. 5. In farriery , having the stomach distended by gorging green food: said of cattle.-6. Emptied by blowing, as an egg. blown2 (blon), p. a. [ cetacean, generally situated on the highest part Fully expanded op Popened, as a flower: as, of head. whalebone whales the blow-holes poises, grampuses, etc., they are reduced to a single cresform two longitudinal slits, placed side by sidsingle cres cent-shaped opening. 2. A hole in the ice to which whales and seals come to breathe.-3. Same as air - hole, 2.-4. In steel - manuf., a defect in the iron or steel, caused by the escape of air or gas while solidification was taking place. The following experiments were made in order to prepare solid steel without blow - holes by the crucible proce , which would give a good resistance and a proper elongation. Ure , Dict., IV. 835. "the blown rose," Shak., A. and C., iii. 11. blow-off (blo'of), a. Pertaining to or used in blowing off (which see, under blow1, v., I.). The blow - off apparatus consists, in fresh-water boilers, simply of a large cock at the bottom of the boiler. Rankine, Steam Engine, § 305. Blow-off cock, a faucet in the blow-off pipe of a steam boiler.-Blow-off pipe, a pipe at the foot of the boiler of a steam-engine, communicating with the ash-pit (or with the sea in marine boilers), and furnished with a cock, the opening of which causes the water and the sediment or brine to be forced out by the steam. blow-out (blō'out), n. A feast; an entertain The Ru ian [sailors]. had celebrated their Christmas eleven days before, when they had a grand blow - out . R. H. Dana , Jr. , Before the Mast, p. 269.