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-blast
·- A suffix or terminal formative, used principally in biological terms, and signifying growth, form...
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Blast
·noun A violent gust of wind.
II. Blast ·noun A flatulent disease of sheep.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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blast
A sudden and violent gust of wind: it is generally of short duration, and succeeded by a fine breeze...
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Hot
·- imp. & ·p.p. of Hote.
II. Hot ·- of <<Hote>>.
III. Hot ·- of <<Hote>>.
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Blast lamp
·add. ·- A lamp provided with some arrangement for intensifying combustion by means of a blast.
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Blast pipe
·- The exhaust pipe of a steam engine, or any pipe delivering steam or air, when so constructed as t...
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Whirl-blast
·noun A whirling blast or wind.
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blast-engine
A ventilating machine to draw off the foul air from the hold of a ship, and induce a current of fres...
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roger's blast
A provincialism denoting a sudden and local motion of the air, resembling a miniature whirlwind.
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Full-hot
·adj Very fiery.
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Hot bulb
·add. ·- ·Alt. of Hot pot.
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Hot pot
·add. ·- ·see Semi-diesel, below.
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Hot-blooded
·adj Having hot blood; excitable; high-spirited; irritable; ardent; passionate.
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Hot-brained
·adj Ardent in temper; violent; rash; impetuous; as, hot-brained youth.
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Hot-head
·noun A violent, passionate person; a hasty or impetuous person; as, the rant of a hot-head.
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Hot-headed
·adj Fiery; violent; rash; hasty; impetuous; vehement.
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Hot-livered
·adj Of an excitable or irritable temperament; irascible.
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Hot-mouthed
·adj <<Headstrong>>.
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Hot-short
·adj More or less brittle when heated; as, hot-short iron.
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Hot-spirited
·adj Having a fiery spirit; hot-headed.
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Red-hot
·adj Red with heat; heated to redness; as, red-hot iron; red-hot balls. Hence, figuratively, excited...
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White-hot
·adj White with heat; heated to whiteness, or incandescence.
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hot pot
Ale and brandy made hot.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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hot stomach
He has so hot a stomach, that he burns all the clothes off his back; said of one who pawns his cloth...
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hot wind
n.
an Australian meteorologicalphenomenon. See quotations, especially 1879, A. R. Wallace.The phras...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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hot-windy
adj.
See houhere.
1871. Dingo, `Australian Rhymes,' p. 18:
«A spell that still makes me forget
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hot coppers
Dry fauces; morning thirst, but generally applied to those who were drinking hard over-night.
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hot-press
When the press-gangs were instructed, on imminent emergency, to impress seamen, regardless of the pr...
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hot-shot
Balls made red-hot in a furnace. Amongst the savages in Bergou, the women are in the rear of the com...
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hot-well
In a steamer, a reservoir from whence to feed the boiler with the warm water received out of the con...
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Hot Water Court
North out of Fann Street at No. 49.
A portion only within the City boundary (P.O. Directory).
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red-hot balls
Shot made red-hot in a furnace, and in that state discharged at the enemy. The loading is managed wi...
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devil to pay and no pitch hot
The seam which margins the water-ways was called the "devil," why only caulkers can tell, who perhap...
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