Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Not blown; not having the bud expanded; hence, not fully grown or developed.
  • Not blown, inflated, or otherwise affected by the wind.
  • Not caused to sound, as a wind-instrument.

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  • adjective Not having been blown (in various senses).

Etymologies

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un- +‎ blown

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Examples

  • Last October, the duo broke a seven-year-old record for street roadsters with an unblown Ardun flathead Ford engine with a four-barrel carburetor.

    Richard Munz: The final trustee By Phil Berg 2008

  • And with all the deep, unblown snow, I'm hoping we can also squeeze in a count of my elk to the north.

    grouse Diary Entry grouse 2006

  • Besides cursing them under his breath, Torres remained the unblown volcano.

    Deuces Wild Dusty Richards 2004

  • They attacked at the double, skirmishers in front, the huge formations splitting apart to stream over the unblown bridges and unguarded fords.

    Sharpe's Honour Cornwell, Bernard 1985

  • Shall I ever forget the day he made a soapy mixture in a great tin pan in his little garret in the Rue Serpente, produced a long, clean clay pipe, delivered to me a neat if extraordinary little lecture on the experiment he was about to make and the inferences I must draw from it if it succeeded -- and then, with his prismatic bubbles all unblown, gravely sat down in the pan!

    Margarita's Soul The Romantic Recollections of a Man of Fifty Josephine Dodge Daskam Bacon 1918

  • Fame's unblown years whose choir my soul would greet!

    Path Flower and Other Verses Olive Tilford Dargan 1918

  • Might pace with unblown ample garments from pleasure to pleasure, —

    0 825. Sunrise by Sidney Lanier. Stedman, Edmund Clarence, ed. 1900. An American Anthology, 1787-1900 1900

  • Straight as the flames of unblown torches, they burned about the table.

    The Dop Doctor Richard Dehan 1897

  • Rembrandt's genius was still unblown, this is blossom prematurely breaking.

    Modern Painting 1892

  • Might pace with unblown ample garments from pleasure to pleasure, --

    Poets of the South 1891

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