Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Inflated; swelled with wind.
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- adjective Inflated with wind.
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- adjective
inflated withwind
Etymologies
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Examples
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No wonder, then, that ever gathering volume from the mere transit over the wildest watery spaces, the outblown rumors of the White Whale did in the end incorporate with themselves all manner of morbid hints, and half-formed foetal suggestions of supernatural agencies, which eventually invested Moby Dick with new terrors unborrowed from anything that visibly appears.
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'I hear the summer storm outblown -- the drip of the grateful wheat.
Songs from Books Rudyard Kipling 1900
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And when I open my window wide and ask him what he wants, and tell him I am quite ready to elope with him now -- this moment -- he only moans and sighs thro 'my outblown hair -- and gives me neuralgia ....
A Writer's Recollections — Volume 2 Humphry Ward 1885
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No wonder, then, that ever gathering volume from the mere transit over the widest watery spaces, the outblown rumors of the White Whale did in the end incorporate with themselves all manner of morbid hints, and half-formed foetal suggestions of supernatural agencies, which eventually invested Moby Dick with new terrors unborrowed from anything that visibly appears.
Moby Dick, or, the whale Herman Melville 1855
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No wonder, then, that ever gathering volume from the mere transit over the wildest watery spaces, the outblown rumors of the White Whale did in the end incorporate with themselves all manner of morbid hints, and half-formed foetal suggestions of supernatural agencies, which eventually invested Moby Dick with new terrors unborrowed from anything that visibly appears.
Moby Dick: or, the White Whale Herman Melville 1855
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No wonder, then, that ever gathering volume from the mere transit over the widest watery spaces, the outblown rumors of the White Whale did in the end incorporate with themselves all manner of morbid hints, and half-formed foetal suggestions of supernatural agencies, which eventually invested Moby Dick with new terrors unborrowed from anything that visibly appears.
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And when I open my window wide and ask him what he wants, and tell him I am quite ready to elope with him now ” this moment ” he only moans and sighs thro 'my outblown hair ” and gives me neuralgia ....
Writer's Recollections Ward, Mrs Humphry 1918
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