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blow-in comb.For convenience of reference all the combinations are treated here, although those under 3, certainly, and 2, apparently, are formed from the verb.1. With adverbs, denoting actions; as blow-away a. (cf. blow v.1 12 a), susceptible to the influence of a current of air, hence fragile; also fig.; blow-back, the act or process of blowing back; spec. (a) the back-pressure in a boiler or internal-combustion engine; (b) in fire-arms (cf. blow v.1 24 e); blow-by (see quot. 1959); also attrib.; blow-down, a gust of wind and smoke down a chimney; blow-off, (a) the action or operation of ridding a boiler of water or sediment by the force of steam; also attrib.; (b) fig. an outburst; blow-over Glass-making, the surplus glass forced out of the mould in blowing (Knight Dict. Mech., a 1877); blow-through, (a) the process of blowing steam through the cylinder of an engine, etc., to clear it of air; used attrib. in blow-through cock, blow-through valve; (b) defining a jet or lamp for the blowing of oxygen through a flame against lime or magnesium to produce a brilliant light; blow-up, an explosion; fig. a disturbance, a quarrel. See also blow-out, blow-up.1858Jrnl. R. Agric. Soc. XIX. 257 It is represented as being at that time a *blow-away sand.1908Daily Chron. 22 June 3/4 The Commissioners got little of the right sort of evidence.., and were dealing..with ‘a mass of blow-away stuff’.1938F. Scott Fitzgerald Let. 18 Nov. (1964) 42 You unveiled the story of the blow-away pink slip.1958Vogue July 86 The blowaway prettiness of an Empire dress.1883J. D. Fulton Sam Hobart 224 The flames originated from the ‘*blow back’ on the engine.1899Westm. Gaz. 13 July 7/2 Foul barrels were the cause of ineffectual shots and ‘blow-back’ caps.1905Kynoch Jrnl. Jan.–Mar. 10 The cracks..will at once develop into fissures when the cartridge is fired, cause ‘blow-backs’, and seriously reduce the velocity of the projectile.1929Evening News 18 Nov. 14/3 He received his injuries as the result of a blow-back in one of the boilers when pulverised fuel was being lit.1940Chambers's Techn. Dict. 98/2 Blow back, the return, at low speeds, of some of the induced mixture through the carburettor of a petrol-engine; due to late closing of the inlet valve during compression.1933Streeter & Lichty Internal Combustion Engines (ed. 4) xv. 432 The oil film is blown out by the high-pressure gases, and *blow-by occurs.1959N.Y. Times 6 Dec. 67/5 The gasoline vapors, called ‘blowby’ by automotive engineers, are hydrocarbons forced between the cylinder wall and the piston during the compression stroke.1961Times 19 Dec. 2/6 A method of making the engine consume its own ‘blowby’ vapours.1884Health Exhib. Catal. 52/1 Chimney Can for curing a *blow-down.1842Civil Engin. & Archit. Jrnl. V. 367/2 *Blow-off cocks.1859Rankine Steam Engine §305, The blow-off apparatus consists, in fresh-water boilers, simply of a large cock at the bottom of the boiler.a1877Knight Dict. Mech., Blow-off Pipe.1898S. M. Fergusson in ‘House’ on Sport I. 174 A blow-off in this wise [i.e. swearing at golf] does one good now and then.1899Daily News 9 Mar. 5/3 The blow-off pipes into the sea being broken, the chief engineer..had to let the water run out of the boilers into the hold.1934J. M. Cain Postman always rings Twice xii. 93 What we had the big blow-off over was the beer licence.a1877Knight Dict. Mech., *Blow-through valve.1892Photogr. Ann. II. 231 Blow-through jet.1906Westm. Gaz. 24 Nov. 14/2 A blow-through lamp.2. With n., qualified by blow- (the verb-stem) in sense of ‘blowing’, or ‘that blows’ or ‘is blown’, as blow-ball, the globular seeding head of the dandelion and allied plants; also fig.; blow-cock, a cock or tap by which to blow off steam; blow-fish, a popular name for any of several fishes which inflate their bodies when stimulated by fear, etc.; blow-george (see quot.); blow-gun = blow-pipe 2; blow job slang (orig. U.S.), (the act of performing) cunnilingus or fellatio; cf. blow v.1 33; blow-lamp, a lamp designed to give a condensed hot flame, directed by air-pressure or gas on the spot to be heated; blow-line (Angling), a fishing line of the lightest floss silk, used with the living fly, so web-like as to allow the wind to blow it out over the stream; blow-post, a system of conveying letters and parcels by pneumatic tubes; blow-room = blowing-room: see blowing vbl. n.1 5; blow-torch = blow-lamp; blow-tube = blow-pipe 2; also a tube used in glass-blowing; blow-valve, the snifting valve of a condensing engine; blow-well (see quot.) Also blow-hole, blow-pipe.1578Lyte Dodoens v. xvi. 568 Condrilla hath..double flowers; the whiche past, they turne into rounde *blowballes, like to fine downe or cotton.1640Shirley Impost. iv. ii, I'm your blow-ball, Your breath dissolves my being.a1670Hacket Abp. Williams ii. (1692) 90 Shake him from his stalk, like a downy blow-ball.1885Standard 28 May 6/3 Joint of *blowcock of boiler gave way.1893Funk's Standard Dict., *Blowfish, the wall-eyed pike-perch.1933A. Davenport Country Holiday viii. 240 Theer'll be hundreds o' great fish followin' every shoal—blow-fish, porpoise, [etc.].1934Bulletin (Sydney) 1 Aug. 21/4 North Australian waters contain..the blowfish... When it is hooked it inflates itself to many times its normal size. Among its aliases are balloon-fish, puffball and windbag.1871Trans. Amer. Inst. Mining Eng. I. 303 Ventilated in the driving by a ‘*blow george’ (hand-fan).1864Athenæum No. 1929. 504/2 The *blow-gun, thro' which short poisoned arrows are propelled by the breath.1961A. Hecht in Hudson Rev. XIV. 371 59 And you can get a *blow-job Where other men have pissed.1969Oz May 14 No, I don't want a blow job—I'm a girl.1976T. Sharpe Wilt iv. 35 ‘You want a blow job, is that it? You want for me to give you a blow job?’ She got off the bed and came towards him.1986P. Booth Palm Beach vii. 139 Turning the other cheek was for girls who hadn't had to give blow jobs to tramps in exchange for a few pieces of candy.1896J. W. Hart External Plumbing Wk. 259 The tinning can be done best by means of a *blow-lamp of some kind.1909Westm. Gaz. 27 Apr. 12/4 He was filling a blow lamp with motor spirit when it exploded.1857Kingsley Two Y. Ago Introd. (D.) Great anglers..who could do many things besides handling a *blow-line.1867F. Francis Angling (1876) 260 Having baited the hook as in blow-line fishing.1881Daily News 8 Nov. 5/5 A writer..advocates the extension of the ‘*blow-post.’1885Pall Mall G. 5 Mar. 4/1 In Paris the blow post is being steadily developed.1908Daily Chron. 5 Aug. 1/6 The card and *blow room hands.1909Century Dict. Suppl., *Blow-torch.1921R. D. Paine Comr. Rolling Ocean xvi. 274 Down to the engine-room went Briscoe and returned with..a blow-torch.1963J. Osborne Dental Mechanics (ed. 5) xv. 340 The face of the blowtorch nozzle.1871Tylor Prim. Cult. i. 60 Nearly the same may be said of the *blow-tube.1799A. Young Agric. Linc. i. 15 In the parishes of Tetney, Fulstow, and that vicinity, *blow-wells, which are deep flowing pits of clear water, which flow in considerable streams.1854N. & Q. Ser. i. IX. 283/1 Natural springs in the northern slope of the Chalk in Lincolnshire..called blow-wells, which may be considered as naturally Artesian.1924Kendall & Wroot Geol. Yorks. i. xlvii. 626 On the warp-lands of Holderness and the Humber estuary there bubble up with great vigour a series of springs known as ‘blow-wells’... A ‘blow-well’ is a natural artesian discharge.3. With n., which is the object after blow (in the sense of ‘one who blows’), as blow-bottle, blow-bowl, a habitual drinker, tippler, sot (cf. blow v.1 31); blow-coal (fig.), one who stirs up or promotes strife (cf. blow v.1 17 b); blow-point, a game (see quot. 1801).1580Baret Alv. A 270 A common haunter of alehouses..an aleknight: a tipler..a *blowbottell.1530Palsgr. 199/1 *Blowbole, yuroigne.1622H. Sydenham Serm. Sol. Occ. (1637) 262 These are..the common *blow-coales in Ecclesiastick tumults.1580Sidney Arcadia ii. 224 How shepheards spend their days At *blow-point, hot cockles, or else at keeles.1640Shirley Hum. Courtier v. iii, Do not trust the Archduke: he cozened me at blow-point.1801Strutt Sports & Past. iv. iv. (1876) 513 Blow-point was probably blowing an arrow through a trunk at certain numbers by way of lottery.4. With v. or derivative form, as blow-dry v. trans., to style and dry (hair) with a brush or comb and hand-held hair-dryer; also as n.; hence blow-dried ppl. a., blow-drying vbl. n.; blow-dryer, a kind of hair-dryer used in blow-drying.1976Morecambe Guardian 7 Dec. 31/3 Tailored Curl by Wella the body perm for *blow dried hair.1981W. Safire in N.Y. Times Mag. 29 Mar. 9/1 David A. Stockman,..a blow-dried Grim Reaper.1966J. S. Cox Illustr. Dict. Hairdressing 21/2 Blow waving, the setting of waves in the hair by means of a comb and a hair dryer with a flattened nozzle by which the wave is shaped and *blow-dried into position.1968Guardian 7 Oct. 7/1 Gregory will shampoo, cut and blow-dry a man's hair (like a woman's) for roughly {pstlg}2 2s.1975A. Beevor Violent Brink v. 115 They blow dried what was left of his hair.1977Oxf. Consumer June 6/2 Prices..varied enormously, from {pstlg}1.25 to {pstlg}4.50 for a trim and blow-dry.1977C. McFadden Serial (1978) xxii. 51/2, I didn't use the *blow-dryer.1977Cork Examiner 8 June 6/3 *Blow-drying is easy, but a little know-how will give much better results.blow-back n. fig. (chiefly U.S.) the adverse consequences of a (political) situation or action (in quot. 1968 as part of an extended metaphor).1968Times 25 Nov. 8/3 It will not help Mr Jenkins much if he tries to explain himself by going into all the relevant intricacies of demand management, and the blowback on sterling from the mark's exhaust.1988C. Simpson Blowback i. 5 This impact is what is known in spy jargon as ‘blowback’, meaning unexpected—and negative—effects at home that result from covert operations overseas.1993Coloradoan (Fort Collins) 11 July e4/5 The trouble we're having now is blowback off the Afghan War.2000Nation (N.Y.) 20 Nov. 22/2 Twenty years after Washington armed the mujahedeen to drive the Soviet Union out of Afghanistan, Russia must now protect the West from the blowback of that policy.
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