1. Noun
One who, or that which, blows.
2. Noun
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.
3. Noun
A blowing out or excessive discharge of gas from a hole or fissure in a mine.
4. Noun
The whale; -- so called by seamen, from the circumstance of its spouting up a column of water.
5. Noun
A small fish of the Atlantic coast (Tetrodon turgidus); the puffer.
6. Noun
A braggart, or loud talker.
7. Noun
large aquatic carnivorous mammal with fin-like forelimbs no hind limbs, including: whales, dolphins, porpoises, narwhals
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