upblows

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,”
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
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