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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Examples
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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
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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
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Besides cursing them under his breath, Torres remained the unblown volcano.
Deuces Wild Dusty Richards 2004
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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
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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
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Fame's unblown years whose choir my soul would greet!
Path Flower and Other Verses Olive Tilford Dargan 1918
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Might pace with unblown ample garments from pleasure to pleasure,
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Straight as the flames of unblown torches, they burned about the table.
The Dop Doctor Richard Dehan 1897
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Rembrandt's genius was still unblown, this is blossom prematurely breaking.
Modern Painting 1892
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Might pace with unblown ample garments from pleasure to pleasure, --
Poets of the South 1891
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