Puff: alternatives and connections

The faculty by which the mind forms an image or a representation of anything perceived before; the power of combining and modifying such objects into…

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The faculty by which the mind forms an image or a representation of anything perceived before; the power of combining and modifying such objects into…

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The act of aspirating; the pronunciation of a letter with a full or strong emission of breath; an aspirated sound.

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Blankets, sheets, coverlets, etc., for a bed.

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of Bed

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A violent gust of wind.

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To flower; to blossom; to bloom.

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To blow fitfully with violence and noise, as wind; to be windy and boisterous, as the weather.

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To vaunt one's self; to brag; to say or tell things which are intended to give others a high opinion of one's self or of things belonging to one's se…

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To talk about one's self, or things pertaining to one's self, in a manner intended to excite admiration, envy, or wonder; to talk boastfully; to boas…

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Lifted up; raised; elevated.

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The act or process of exhaling, or sending forth in the form of steam or vapor; evaporation.

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The act of expiring

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An aeriform fluid; -- a term used at first by chemists as synonymous with air, but since restricted to fluids supposed to be permanently elastic, as…

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A boast or boasting; a vaunt; a bravado; a bragging; braggodocio.

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A sudden squall; a violent blast of wind; a sudden and brief rushing or driving of the wind. Snow, and hail, stormy gust and flaw.

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The act of inhaling; also, that which is inhaled.

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To breathe or draw into the lungs; to inspire; as, to inhale air; -- opposed to exhale.

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The act of inspiring or breathing in; breath; specif. (Physiol.), the drawing of air into the lungs, accomplished in mammals by elevation of the ches…

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To breathe into; to fill with the breath; to animate.

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The place where water or air is taken into a pipe or conduit; -- opposed to outlet.

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Intoxicated.

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To enlarge or expand with heat; to swell; specifically, to swell up or bubble up under the action of heat, as before the blowpipe.

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A footpath; a road.

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The place where pastry is made.

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To commend; to applaud; to express approbation of; to laud; -- applied to a person or his acts.

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The act of recommending.

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The place or thing upon which one sits; hence; anything made to be sat in or upon, as a chair, bench, stool, saddle, or the like.

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The visible exhalation, vapor, or substance that escapes, or expelled, from a burning body, especially from burning vegetable matter, as wood, coal,…

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An oval figure, whose moldings are oblique to the axis of the work.

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To grow larger; to dilate or extend the exterior surface or dimensions, by matter added within, or by expansion of the inclosed substance; as, the le…

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A writing or certificate which bears testimony in favor of one's character, good conduct, ability, etc., or of the value of a thing.

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To act as a tout. See 2d Tout.

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To swell; to cause to swell, or puff up.

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To lift or raise aloft; to raise; to elevate; as, to uplift the arm; to uplift a rock.

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To boast; to make a vain display of one's own worth, attainments, decorations, or the like; to talk ostentatiously; to brag.

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The act of breathing on or into anything

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Work composed of pieces sewed together, esp. pieces of various colors and figures; hence, anything put together of incongruous or ill-adapted parts;…

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A coarse or stupid fellow.

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A coarse or stupid fellow.

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A confection; a comfit; a drug.

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A confection; a comfit; a drug.

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To cause to move upward or onward by a lifting effort; to lift; to raise; to hoist; -- often with up; as, the wave heaved the boat on land.

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To cause to move upward or onward by a lifting effort; to lift; to raise; to hoist; -- often with up; as, the wave heaved the boat on land.

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of Pant

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of Puff

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of Puff

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Swelled with air, or any soft matter; tumid with a soft substance; bloated; fleshy; as, a puffy tumor.

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Swelled with air, or any soft matter; tumid with a soft substance; bloated; fleshy; as, a puffy tumor.

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Anything that is quilted; esp., a quilted bed cover, or a skirt worn by women; any cover or garment made by putting wool, cotton, etc., between two c…

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Anything that is quilted; esp., a quilted bed cover, or a skirt worn by women; any cover or garment made by putting wool, cotton, etc., between two c…

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The visible exhalation, vapor, or substance that escapes, or expelled, from a burning body, especially from burning vegetable matter, as wood, coal,…

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The visible exhalation, vapor, or substance that escapes, or expelled, from a burning body, especially from burning vegetable matter, as wood, coal,…

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of Smoke

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To flower; to blossom; to bloom.

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A coarse or stupid fellow.

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To make strong; to invigorate; to fortify; to corroborate.

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One who administers comfort or consolation.

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A confection; a comfit; a drug.

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To cause to move continuously by force applied in advance of the thing moved; to pull along; to haul; to drag; to cause to follow.

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To open the mouth wide in catching the breath, or in laborious respiration; to labor for breath; to respire convulsively; to pant violently.

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A rank tuft of bog grass; a tussock.

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To cause to move upward or onward by a lifting effort; to lift; to raise; to hoist; -- often with up; as, the wave heaved the boat on land.

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To swell; to enlarge; to puff up; as, huffed up with air.

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Of or pertaining to the Turks; as, the Ottoman power or empire.

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To breathe quickly or in a labored manner, as after exertion or from eagerness or excitement; to respire with heaving of the breast; to gasp.

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of Puff

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To draw, or attempt to draw, toward one; to draw forcibly.

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Anything that is quilted; esp., a quilted bed cover, or a skirt worn by women; any cover or garment made by putting wool, cotton, etc., between two c…

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A sudden expulsion of air from the mouth; a quick puff or slight gust, as of air or smoke.

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