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blow-valve
A valve by which the first vacuum necessary for starting a steam-engine is produced.
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blow-through valve
A valve admitting steam into the condenser, in order to clear it of air and water before starting th...
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Valve
·noun One of the two similar portions of the shell of a diatom.
II. Valve ·noun One of the pieces o...
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Blow
·noun The spouting of a whale.
II. Blow ·vt To inflate, as with pride; to puff up.
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blow
He has bit the blow, i.e. he has stolen the goods. Cant.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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blow
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n.
stroke of the shears in sheep-shearing.
1890. `The Argus,' September 20, p. 13, col. 7:
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Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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to blow
1) To taunt; to ridicule.
2) To turn informer on an accomplice.
BLOW
3) A gale of wind. Ex. A hea...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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blow
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Applied to the breathing of whales and other cetaceans. The expired air from the lungs being hi...
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D valve
·- A kind of slide valve. ·see Slide valve, under <<Slide>>.
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Foot valve
·add. ·- A suction valve or check valve at the lower end of a pipe; ·esp., such a valve in a steam-e...
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Kingston valve
·- A conical valve, opening outward, to close the mouth of a pipe which passes through the side of a...
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Pilot valve
·add. ·- A small hand-operated valve to admit liquid to operate a valve difficult to turn by hand.
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Shunt valve
·add. ·- A valve permitting a fluid under pressure an easier avenue of escape than normally; specif....
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Valve-shell
·noun Any fresh-water gastropod of the genus Valvata.
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bucket-valve
In a steamer's engine, is a flat metal plate filling up the passage between the air-pump and the con...
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discharge-valve
In the marine engine, is a valve covering the top of the barrel of the air-pump, opening when presse...
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expansion-valve
In the marine engine, a valve which shuts off the steam in its passage to the slide-valves, when the...
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foot-valve
A flat plate of metal filling up the passage between the air-pump and condenser. The lower valve of ...
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safety-valve
A conical valve on the top of the steam-chest, communicating with the boiler of a steam-engine, and ...
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snifting-valve
In the marine engine (see tail-valve).
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tail-valve
A valve in the air-pump at the opposite side from the condenser, and connected with the latter by a ...
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throttle-valve
A valve in the steam-pipe of an engine for preventing the escape of steam, or regulating the velocit...
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Blow-off
·adj as, a blow-off cock or pipe.
II. Blow-off ·noun A blowing off steam, water, ·etc.;.
III. Blow...
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Blow-out
·noun The cleaning of the flues of a boiler from scale, ·etc., by a blast of steam.
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By-blow
·noun An illegitimate child; a bastard.
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blow-up
A discovery, or the confusion occasioned by one.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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to blow over
Said properly of a storm; and hence generally, to pass away without effect. This metaphor is very co...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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to blow up
To scold, to abuse, either in speaking or writing. A vulgar expression borrowed from sailor's langua...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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blow-up
A quarrel; a dispute. A common expression, used in familiar conversation.
There was a regular blow-...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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blow out
A feast; also called a tuck out. Both expressions are English as well as American.
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Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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blow-milk
skimmed milk, perhaps blue milk ; milk when closely skimmed being of a blueish colour. N.
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A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
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blow-holes
The nostrils of the cetaceans, situated on the highest part of the head. In the whalebone whales the...
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blow home
The wind does not cease or moderate till it comes past that place, blowing continuously over the lan...
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blow-out
Extravagant feasting regardless of consequences.
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blow-pipe
An engine of offence used by the Araucanians and Borneans, and with the latter termed sumpitan: the ...
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Double-beat valve
·- ·see under <<Valve>>.
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internal safety-valve
A valve opening from the outside of a steamer's boiler, in order to allow air to enter the boiler wh...
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slide-valve casing
A casing on one side of the cylinder of an engine, which covers the nozzles or steam-ports, and conf...
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slide-valve rod
A rod connecting the slide-valves of an engine, to both of which it is joined; it passes through the...
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Blow Bladder Street
North-west from Cheapside to Newgate Street, in Aldersgate Ward and Farringdon Ward Within (O. and M...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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to blow the grounsils
To lie with a woman on the floor. Cant.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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to blow the gab
To confess, or impeach a confederate. Cant.
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blow off, to
To clear up in the clouds.
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blow-off-pipe
, in a steamer, is a pipe at the foot of each boiler, communicating with the sea, and furnished with...
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blow the gaff
To reveal a secret; to expose or inform against a person.
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blow up, to
To abuse angrily.
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automatic blow-off apparatus
See blow-off-pipe.
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blow over, (it will)
Said of a gale which is expected to pass away quickly.
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