upblow

Verb

upblow (third-person singular simple present upblows, present participle upblowing, simple past upblew, past participle upblown)

1. (archaic, transitive) To inflate.
   • […] the pacyent hath heuynes and vpblowynge in the syde […]1525, uncredited translator, The noble experyence of the vertuous handy warke of surgeri by Brunschwig, Hieronymus, London, Chapter 48 “Of the wounde in the brest,”
   • And by his side rode loathsome Gluttony,
     Deformed creature, on a filthie swyne,
     His belly was vpblowne with luxury;1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 51
2. (archaic, transitive) To explode, blow up.
   • Ingyniers in the trench
     earth, earth uprearing,
     Gun-powder in the mynes,
     Pagans upblowing.1666, anonymous, Song 37, in Thomas Davidson, Cantus, songs and Fancies, to three, four, or five parts, Aberdeen
   • The bridge of Lindenau has been upblown!1908, Thomas Hardy, The Dynasts: A Drama of the Napoleonic Wars, […], part third, London: Macmillan and Co., […], →OCLC, Act III, scene v, page 117
3. (ambitransitive, archaic) To blow in an upward direction.
   • The watry Southwinde from the seabord coste
     Vpblowing, doth disperse the vapour lo’ste,1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 447
   • The helmsman steerd, the ship mov’d on;
     Yet never a breeze up-blew;1798, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, part 5, in Lyrical Ballads, London: J. & A. Arch, p. 28