bloweth

Verb

blow (third-person singular simple present blows, present participle blowing, simple past blew, past participle blown)

1. (intransitive) To produce an air current.
   • Lear. Blow windes, & crack your cheeks; Rage, blow / You Cataracts, and Hyrricano's ſpout,c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount...
2. (transitive) To propel by an air current (or, if under water, a water current), usually with the mouth.
   • Blow the dust off that book and open it up.
3. (intransitive) To be propelled by an air current.
   • The leaves blow through the streets in the fall.
4. (figuratively, transitive) To direct or move, usually of a person to a particular location.
   • "This is an unexpected pleasure!" exclaimed he. "What good fortune blows Lady Marchmont hither?"1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “A Friend at Court”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 260
5. (transitive) To create or shape by blowing.
   • to blow bubbles
6. (transitive) To force a current of air upon with the mouth, or by other means.
   • to blow the fire

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