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blowne

blowne is the obsolete form of blown.

Meaning of blown

Adjective

blown (not comparable)

  1. Distended, swollen, or inflated.
    • Cattle are said to be blown when gorged with green food which develops gas.
    Synonyms:
    bulled, tumid, puffed
  2. Panting and out of breath.
  3. Formed by blowing.
  4. Under the influence of drugs, especially marijuana.
  5. (obsolete) Stale; worthless.
    • [T]wo or three horsemen, [...] appeared returning at full gallop, their horses much blown, and the men apparently in a disordered flight.1816, Jedadiah Cleishbotham [pseudonym; Walter Scott], chapter II, in Tales of My Landlord, […], volume II (Old Mortality), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for William Blackwood, […]...
  6. Covered with the eggs and larvae of flies; flyblown.

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Questions about blowne

What is blowne the obsolete form of?
Blowne is the obsolete form of blown.

Words near blowne in the dictionary

  1. blown wind up someone's skirt
  2. blown wise to
  3. blown with the wind
  4. blown-in-the-bottle
  5. blown-off
  6. blowne
  7. blownup
  8. blowoff
  9. blowoffs
  10. blowout
  11. blowout coil

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