adv. & a. [ Pref. a- + flow. ] Flowing. [ 1913 Webster ]

Their founts aflow with tears. R. Browning. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A glow of refulgence in the western sky after sunset. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. & a. [ Pref. a- + glow. ] In a glow; glowing; as, cheeks aglow; the landscape all aglow. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. the flow of air. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

The evening before Allhallows. See Halloween. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The feast of All Saints. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to the time of Allhallows. [ Obs. ] “Allhallown summer.” Shak. (i. e., late summer; “Indian Summer”). [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. 1. All the saints (in heaven). [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. All Saints' Day, November 1st. [ Archaic ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ AS. tīd time. ] The time at or near All Saints, or November 1st. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Allowed p. pr. & vb. n. Allowing. ] [ OE. alouen, OF. alouer, aloer, aluer, F. allouer, fr. LL. allocare to admit as proved, to place, use; confused with OF. aloer, fr. L. allaudare to extol; ad + laudare to praise. See Local, and cf. Allocate, Laud. ] 1. To praise; to approve of; hence, to sanction. [ Obs. or Archaic ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Ye allow the deeds of your fathers. Luke xi. 48. [ 1913 Webster ]

We commend his pains, condemn his pride, allow his life, approve his learning. Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To like; to be suited or pleased with. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

How allow you the model of these clothes? Massinger. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To sanction; to invest; to intrust. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Thou shalt be . . . allowed with absolute power. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To grant, give, admit, accord, afford, or yield; to let one have; as, to allow a servant his liberty; to allow a free passage; to allow one day for rest. [ 1913 Webster ]

He was allowed about three hundred pounds a year. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. To own or acknowledge; to accept as true; to concede; to accede to an opinion; as, to allow a right; to allow a claim; to allow the truth of a proposition. [ 1913 Webster ]

I allow, with Mrs. Grundy and most moralists, that Miss Newcome's conduct . . . was highly reprehensible. Thackeray. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. To grant (something) as a deduction or an addition; esp. to abate or deduct; as, to allow a sum for leakage. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. To grant license to; to permit; to consent to; as, to allow a son to be absent. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- To allot; assign; bestow; concede; admit; permit; suffer; tolerate. See Permit. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To admit; to concede; to make allowance or abatement. [ 1913 Webster ]

Allowing still for the different ways of making it. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

To allow of, to permit; to admit. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ F. allouable. ] 1. Praiseworthy; laudable. [ Obs. ] Hacket. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Proper to be, or capable of being, allowed; permissible; admissible; not forbidden; not unlawful or improper; as, a certain degree of freedom is allowable among friends. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being allowable; permissibleness; lawfulness; exemption from prohibition or impropriety. South. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In an allowable manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. alouance. ] 1. Approval; approbation. [ Obs. ] Crabbe. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The act of allowing, granting, conceding, or admitting; authorization; permission; sanction; tolerance. [ 1913 Webster ]

Without the king's will or the state's allowance. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Acknowledgment. [ 1913 Webster ]

The censure of the which one must in your allowance o'erweigh a whole theater of others. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. License; indulgence. [ Obs. ] Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. That which is allowed; a share or portion allotted or granted; a sum granted as a reimbursement, a bounty, or as appropriate for any purpose; a stated quantity, as of food or drink; hence, a limited quantity of meat and drink, when provisions fall short. [ 1913 Webster ]

I can give the boy a handsome allowance. Thackeray. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. Abatement; deduction; the taking into account of mitigating circumstances; as, to make allowance for the inexperience of youth. [ 1913 Webster ]

After making the largest allowance for fraud. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. (com.) A customary deduction from the gross weight of goods, different in different countries, such as tare and tret. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Allowancing ] [ See Allowance, n. ] To put upon a fixed allowance (esp. of provisions and drink); to supply in a fixed and limited quantity; as, the captain was obliged to allowance his crew; our provisions were allowanced. [ 1913 Webster ]

pos>adv. By allowance; admittedly. Shenstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. An approver or abettor. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One who allows or permits. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. [ Pref. a- + low. ] Below; in a lower part. “Aloft, and then alow.” Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A reddish glow seen near sunset or sunrise on the summits of mountains; specif., a reillumination sometimes observed after the summits have passed into shadow, supposed to be due to a curving downward (refraction) of the light rays from the west resulting from the cooling of the air. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. (Arch.) An ornament resembling a ball placed in a circular flower, the petals of which form a cup round it, -- usually inserted in a hollow molding. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A cudgel. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

See under 1st Bank, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who lies with another in the same bed; a person who shares one's couch. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To besprinkle or scatter over with, or as with, flowers. Hobbes. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) A plant of the genus Campanula; -- so named from its bell-shaped flowers. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. bellefleur, lit., beautiful flower. ] A kind of apple. The yellow bellflower is a large, yellow winter apple. [ Written also bellefleur. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Bellowed ; p. pr. & vb. n. Bellowing. ] [ OE. belwen, belowen, AS. bylgean, fr. bellan; akin to G. bellen, and perh. to L. flere to weep, OSlav. bleja to bleat, Lith. balsas voice. Cf. Bell, n. & v., Bawl, Bull. ] 1. To make a hollow, loud noise, as an enraged bull. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To bowl; to vociferate; to clamor. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To roar; as the sea in a tempest, or as the wind when violent; to make a loud, hollow, continued sound. [ 1913 Webster ]

The bellowing voice of boiling seas. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To emit with a loud voice; to shout; -- used with out. “Would bellow out a laugh.” Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A loud resounding outcry or noise, as of an enraged bull; a roar. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who, or that which, bellows. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. sing. & pl. [ OE. bely, below, belly, bellows, AS. bælg, bælig, bag, bellows, belly. Bellows is prop. a pl. and the orig. sense is bag. See Belly. ] An instrument, utensil, or machine, which, by alternate expansion and contraction, or by rise and fall of the top, draws in air through a valve and expels it through a tube for various purposes, as blowing fires, ventilating mines, or filling the pipes of an organ with wind. [ 1913 Webster ]

Bellows camera, in photography, a form of camera, which can be drawn out like an accordion or bellows. --
Hydrostatic bellows. See Hydrostatic. --
A pair of bellows, the ordinary household instrument for blowing fires, consisting of two nearly heart-shaped boards with handles, connected by leather, and having a valve and tube. [ 1913 Webster ]

(Zool.) A European fish (Centriscus scolopax), distinguished by a long tubular snout, like the pipe of a bellows; -- called also trumpet fish, and snipe fish. [ 1913 Webster ]

prep. [ Pref. be- by + low. ] 1. Under, or lower in place; beneath not so high; as, below the moon; below the knee. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Inferior to in rank, excellence, dignity, value, amount, price, etc.; lower in quality. “One degree below kings.” Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Unworthy of; unbefitting; beneath. [ 1913 Webster ]

They beheld, with a just loathing and disdain, . . . how below all history the persons and their actions were. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

Who thinks no fact below his regard. Hallam. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Underneath; under; beneath. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. 1. In a lower place, with respect to any object; in a lower room; beneath. [ 1913 Webster ]

Lord Marmion waits below. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. On the earth, as opposed to the heavens. [ 1913 Webster ]

The fairest child of Jove below. Prior. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. In hell, or the regions of the dead. [ 1913 Webster ]

What business brought him to the realms below. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. In court or tribunal of inferior jurisdiction; as, at the trial below. Wheaton. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. In some part or page following. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To treat as a lout; to talk abusively to. [ Obs. ] Camden. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. Icel. bylgja billow, Dan. bölge, Sw. bölja; akin to MHG. bulge billow, bag, and to E. bulge. See Bulge. ] 1. A great wave or surge of the sea or other water, caused usually by violent wind. [ 1913 Webster ]

Whom the winds waft where'er the billows roll. Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A great wave or flood of anything. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Billowed p. pr. & vb. n. Billowing. ] To surge; to rise and roll in waves or surges; to undulate. “The billowing snow.” Prior. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. [ p. pr. & vb. n. of billow, verb ] 1. rising in billows. billowing smoke [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. stormy; affected by storms; -- of weather, used prenominally. calm
Syn. -- billowy, surging. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Of or pertaining to billows; swelling or swollen into large waves; full of billows or surges; resembling billows. [ 1913 Webster ]

And whitening down the many-tinctured stream,
Descends the billowy foam. Thomson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From the color of the flower. ] (Bot.) A genus of bulbous plants, natives of Southern Africa, named Hæmanthus, of the Amaryllis family. The juice of Hæmanthus toxicarius is used by the Hottentots to poison their arrows. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To cause to blossom; to put forth (blossoms or flowers). [ 1913 Webster ]

The odorous banks, that blow
Flowers of more mingled hue. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) A blossom; a flower; also, a state of blossoming; a mass of blossoms. “Such a blow of tulips.” Tatler. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. Blew p. p. Blown p. pr. & vb. n. Blowing. ] [ OE. blowen, AS. blōwan to blossom; akin to OS. blōjan, D. bloeijen, OHG. pluojan, MHG. blüejen, G. blühen, L. florere to flourish, OIr. blath blossom. Cf. Blow to puff, Flourish. ] To flower; to blossom; to bloom. [ 1913 Webster ]

How blows the citron grove. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. blaw, blowe; cf. OHG. bliuwan, pliuwan, to beat, G. bläuen, Goth. bliggwan. ] 1. A forcible stroke with the hand, fist, or some instrument, as a rod, a club, an ax, or a sword. [ 1913 Webster ]

Well struck ! there was blow for blow. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A sudden or forcible act or effort; an assault. [ 1913 Webster ]

A vigorous blow might win [ Hanno's camp ]. T. Arnold. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The infliction of evil; a sudden calamity; something which produces mental, physical, or financial suffering or loss (esp. when sudden); a buffet. [ 1913 Webster ]

A most poor man, made tame to fortune's blows. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

At a blow, suddenly; at one effort; by a single vigorous act. “They lose a province at a blow.” Dryden. --
To come to blows, to engage in combat; to fight; -- said of individuals, armies, and nations. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Stroke; knock; shock; misfortune. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. Blew p. p. Blown p. pr. & vb. n. Blowing. ] [ OE. blawen, blowen, AS. blāwan to blow, as wind; akin to OHG. plājan, G. blähen, 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

Hark how it rains and blows ! Walton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To send forth a forcible current of air, as from the mouth or from a pair of bellows. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To breathe hard or quick; to pant; to puff. [ 1913 Webster ]

Here is Mistress Page at the door, sweating and blowing. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To sound on being blown into, as a trumpet. [ 1913 Webster ]

There let the pealing organ blow. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. To spout water, etc., from the blowholes, as a whale. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. To be carried or moved by the wind; as, the dust blows in from the street. [ 1913 Webster ]

The grass blows from their graves to thy own. M. Arnold. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. To talk loudly; to boast; to storm. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

You blow behind my back, but dare not say anything to my face. Bartlett. [ 1913 Webster ]

8. To stop functioning due to a failure in an electrical circuit, especially on which breaks the circuit; sometimes used with out; -- used of light bulbs, electronic components, fuses; as, the dome light in the car blew out. [ PJC ]

9. To deflate by sudden loss of air; usually used with out; -- of inflatable tires. [ PJC ]

To blow hot and cold (a saying derived from a fable of Æsop'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. “The enemy's magazines blew up.” Tatler. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. 1. To force a current of air upon with the mouth, or by other means; as, to blow the fire. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To drive by a current air; to impel; as, the tempest blew the ship ashore. [ 1913 Webster ]

Off at sea northeast winds blow
Sabean odors from the spicy shore. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To cause air to pass through by the action of the mouth, or otherwise; to cause to sound, as a wind instrument; as, to blow a trumpet; to blow an organ; to blow a horn. [ 1913 Webster ]

Hath she no husband
That will take pains to blow a horn before her? Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Boy, blow the pipe until the bubble rise,
Then cast it off to float upon the skies. Parnell. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To clear of contents by forcing air through; as, to blow an egg; to blow one's nose. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. To burst, shatter, or destroy by an explosion; -- usually with up, down, open, or similar adverb; as, to blow up a building. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. To spread by report; to publish; to disclose; to reveal, intentionally or inadvertently; as, to blow an agent's cover. [ 1913 Webster ]

Through the court his courtesy was blown. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

His language does his knowledge blow. Whiting. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. To form by inflation; to swell by injecting air; as, to blow bubbles; to blow glass. [ 1913 Webster ]

8. To inflate, as with pride; to puff up. [ 1913 Webster ]

Look how imagination blows him. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

9. To put out of breath; to cause to blow from fatigue; as, to blow a horse. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

10. To deposit eggs or larvæ upon, or in (meat, etc.). [ 1913 Webster ]

To suffer
The flesh fly blow my mouth. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

11. To perform an act of fellatio on; to stimulate another's penis with one's mouth; -- usually considered vulgar. [ slang ] [ PJC ]

12. to smoke (e. g. marijuana); to blow pot. [ colloq. ] [ PJC ]

13. to botch; to bungle; as, he blew his chance at a good job by showing up late for the interview. [ colloq. ] [ PJC ]

14. to leave; to depart from; as, to blow town. [ slang ] [ PJC ]

15. to squander; as, he blew his inheritance gambling. [ colloq. ] [ PJC ]

To blow great guns, to blow furiously and with roaring blasts; -- said of the wind at sea or along the coast. --
To blow off, to empty (a boiler) of water through the blow-off pipe, while under steam pressure; also, to eject (steam, water, sediment, etc.) from a boiler. --
To blow one's own trumpet, to vaunt one's own exploits, or sound one's own praises. --
To blow out, to extinguish by a current of air, as a candle. --
To blow up. (a) To fill with air; to swell; as, to blow up a bladder or bubble. (b) To inflate, as with pride, self-conceit, etc.; to puff up; as, to blow one up with flattery. “Blown up with high conceits engendering pride.” Milton. (c) To excite; as, to blow up a contention. (d) To burst, to raise into the air, or to scatter, by an explosion; as, to blow up a fort. (e) To scold violently; as, to blow up a person for some offense. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ] I have blown him up well -- nobody can say I wink at what he does. G. Eliot. [ 1913 Webster ] --
To blow upon. (a) To blast; to taint; to bring into discredit; to render stale, unsavory, or worthless. (b) To inform against. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ] How far the very custom of hearing anything spouted withers and blows upon a fine passage, may be seen in those speeches from [ Shakespeare's ] Henry V. which are current in the mouths of schoolboys. C. Lamb. [ 1913 Webster ] A lady's maid whose character had been blown upon. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A blowing, esp., a violent blowing of the wind; a gale; as, a heavy blow came on, and the ship put back to port. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The act of forcing air from the mouth, or through or from some instrument; as, to give a hard blow on a whistle or horn; to give the fire a blow with the bellows. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The spouting of a whale. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Metal.) A single heat or operation of the Bessemer converter. Raymond. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. An egg, or a larva, deposited by a fly on or in flesh, or the act of depositing it. Chapman. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. the backward escape of unburned gunpowder after a shot. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. The downy seed head of a dandelion, which children delight to blow away. B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]