·- A suffix or terminal formative, used principally in biological terms, and signifying growth, formation; as, bioblast, epiblast, mesoblast, ·etc.
·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
To curse. ...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
A sudden and violent gust of wind: it is generally of short duration, and succeeded by a fine breeze...
The Sailor's Word-Book
·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. ...