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·noun A violent gust of wind. II. Blast ·noun A flatulent disease of sheep. III. Blast ·vt To conf...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
A sudden and violent gust of wind: it is generally of short duration, and succeeded by a fine breeze...
The Sailor's Word-Book
·- A suffix or terminal formative, used principally in biological terms, and signifying growth, form...
·add. ·- A lamp provided with some arrangement for intensifying combustion by means of a blast. ...
·- The exhaust pipe of a steam engine, or any pipe delivering steam or air, when so constructed as t...
·- ·see under <<Blast>>. ...
·noun A whirling blast or wind. ...
A ventilating machine to draw off the foul air from the hold of a ship, and induce a current of fres...
A provincialism denoting a sudden and local motion of the air, resembling a miniature whirlwind. ...