Puffer

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun A Kier.

II. Puffer ·noun The common, or harbor, porpoise.

III. Puffer ·noun One who puffs; one who praises with noisy or extravagant commendation.

IV. Puffer ·noun One who is employed by the owner or seller of goods sold at suction to bid up the price; a by-bidder.

V. Puffer ·noun Any plectognath fish which inflates its body, as the species of Tetrodon and Diodon;

— called also blower, puff-fish, swellfish, and globefish.

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