Blown : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Blown	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
blown adj being moved or acted upon by moving air or vapor; "blown clouds of dust choked the riders"; "blown soil mounded on the window sill" breathing laboriously or convulsively Synonym(s): blown, pursy, short-winded, winded
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Blow \Blow\ (bl[omac]), v. i. [imp. {Blew} (bl[umac]); p. p. {Blown} (bl[omac]n); p. pr. & vb. n. {Blowing}.] [OE. blowen, AS. bl[omac]wan to blossom; akin to OS. bl[omac]jan, D. bloeijen, OHG. pluojan, MHG. bl[uum]ejen, G. bl[81]hen, L. florere to flourish, OIr. blath blossom. Cf. {Blow} to puff, {Flourish}.] To flower; to blossom; to bloom. How blows the citron grove. --Milton.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Blow \Blow\, v. i. [imp. {Blew} (bl[umac]); p. p. {Blown} (bl[omac]n); p. pr. & vb. n. {Blowing}.] [OE. blawen, blowen, AS. bl[amac]wan to blow, as wind; akin to OHG. pl[amac]jan, G. bl[84]hen, to blow up, swell, L. flare to blow, Gr. 'ekflai`nein to spout out, and to E. bladder, blast, inflate, etc., and perh. blow to bloom.] 1. To produce a current of air; to move, as air, esp. to move rapidly or with power; as, the wind blows. Hark how it rains and blows ! --Walton. 2. To send forth a forcible current of air, as from the mouth or from a pair of bellows. 3. To breathe hard or quick; to pant; to puff. Here is Mistress Page at the door, sweating and blowing. --Shak. 4. To sound on being blown into, as a trumpet. There let the pealing organ blow. --Milton. 5. To spout water, etc., from the blowholes, as a whale. 6. To be carried or moved by the wind; as, the dust blows in from the street. The grass blows from their graves to thy own. --M. Arnold. 7. To talk loudly; to boast; to storm. [Colloq.] You blow behind my back, but dare not say anything to my face. --Bartlett. {To blow hot and cold} (a saying derived from a fable of [AE]sop's), to favor a thing at one time and treat it coldly at another; or to appear both to favor and to oppose. {To blow off}, to let steam escape through a passage provided for the purpose; as, the engine or steamer is blowing off. {To blow out}. (a) To be driven out by the expansive force of a gas or vapor; as, a steam cock or valve sometimes blows out. (b) To talk violently or abusively. [Low] {To blow over}, to pass away without effect; to cease, or be dissipated; as, the storm and the clouds have blown over. {To blow up}, to be torn to pieces and thrown into the air as by an explosion of powder or gas or the expansive force of steam; to burst; to explode; as, a powder mill or steam boiler blows up. [bd]The enemy's magazines blew up.[b8] --Tatler.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Blown \Blown\, p. p. & a. 1. Swollen; inflated; distended; puffed up, as cattle when gorged with green food which develops gas. 2. Stale; worthless. 3. Out of breath; tired; exhausted. [bd]Their horses much blown.[b8] --Sir W. Scott. 4. Covered with the eggs and larv[91] of flies; fly blown.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Blown \Blown\, p. p. & a. Opened; in blossom or having blossomed, as a flower. --Shak.