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▪ I. blown, ppl. a.1|bləʊn|
[pa. pple. of blow v.1]
1. Fanned, driven or tossed by the wind.
1552Abp. Hamilton Catech. 286 Saiffit, swa as be ane blawin fyre. 1746Collins Ode Liberty 70 To the blown Baltic. 1862Ansted Channel Isl. iv. xx. (ed. 2) 462 Blown sea-sand covers the soil.
2. Out of breath.
1674Marvell Reh. Transp. ii. 33 And chase the blown Deer out of their Heard. 1735Somerville Chase iii. 461 Now the blown Stag..Has measur'd half the Forest. 1873Black Pr. Thule x. 162 Too blown to speak.
†3. Stale, flat, that has lost its freshness; tainted.
1600Rowlands Let. Humours Blood vi. 75 Blowne drinke is odious, what man can disiest it? 1640Bp. Hall Episc. ii. x. 139 Some blowne ware out of the pack of his Recognitions.
4. Breathed out, whispered, hinted.
1604Shakes. Oth. iii. iii. 182 When I shall turne..To such exufflicate, and blown [Fol. blow'd] Surmises.
5. a. Inflated; swollen; formed by inflation. Also blown-up. Applied spec. to glassware formed by forcing air into molten glass.
c1425Seven Sag. (P.) 2181 Grete blowen bladdyrs he brake. 1596Shakes. 1 Hen. IV, iv. ii. 53 How now blowne lack? how now Quilt? 1618Bolton Florus iii. v. 183 Floting on a blowne Bladder. 1830M. Donovan Dom. Econ. I. 93 Too quick a heat of the kiln expels the water from the malt in a state of steam, with such force as to burst the grain. This is called blown malt. 1831Brewster Optics xii. 100 The thinnest films of blown glass. 1870Swinburne Ess. & Stud. (1875) 347 A boyish torch-bearer with blown cheeks. 1961Listener 26 Oct. 674/1 Not many people are even aware of the difference between blown glass and pressed glass. 1962Gloss. Terms Glass Ind. (B.S.I.) 36 Blown glassware, glassware formed by air pressure produced by mouth or by a machine.
b. fig. Inflated with pride or the like (arch.); more recently,‘exaggerated’.
1483Caxton Gold. Leg. 154/3 Ambrose can not be so blowen and [s]wollen as thou arte. 1605Shakes. Lear iv. iv. 26 No blowne Ambition doth our Armes incite. 1866Kingsley Herew. i. 37 More of a blown-up ass than thou art already. 1958A. J. P. Taylor in New Statesman 15 Nov. 664/1 The talk about homosexuals corrupting young boys is blown-up nonsense, a perverted wish-fulfilment. 1961Listener 23 Nov. 887/1 The sorrows of a blown-up ‘pop singer’ became moving.
c. Vet. Path. (See blow v.1 22 c.)
1833Youatt Compl. Grazier (ed. 6) vi. i. 316 No distemper is of more frequent occurrence among cattle than that of being swollen, blown, or hoven. 1898in E.D.D. 1950N.Z. Jrnl. Agric. Feb. 167/2 The combination of them causes fermentation, with disastrous results—blown cows and digestive disorders.
d. Filled with bubbles or the like. (Cf. blowing vbl. n.1 2 c.)
1872Spons' Dict. Engin. v. 1548 The..result is what moulders term a blown casting; that is, its surface becomes filled with bubbles of air, rendering its texture porous and weak.
e. Of a tin of food: swollen or inflated (see blowing vbl. n.1 2 e).
1899Daily News 16 Jan. 3/3 The sanitary inspector explained that the contents of a ‘blown’ tin would ‘not taste so bad after the gas had come out’. 1955J. G. Davis Dict. Dairying (ed. 2) 79 Blown cans of evaporated milk and canned cream.
f. colloq. = supercharged ppl. a. (Cf. blower1 3 d.)
1934Neuphilologische Mitteilungen XXXV. 131 Motoring..a blown model ‘model fitted with a supercharger’. 1940Chambers's Techn. Dict. 99/1 Blown, a colloquial term applied to a supercharged petrol-engine. 1959Motor 2 Sept. 92/2 Sears'..blown 4½-litre model. Ibid. 11 Nov. 532/3 Won the..Handicap at 125 m.p.h. in a blown Bugatti.
g. blown oil: oil that has had air blown through it in order to increase its viscosity.
1887Analyst xii. 33 Blown or thickened oils are prepared from various seed oils, by heating the oil in a suitable tank to 70° C., and then blowing air into them through a perforated tube. 1951R. Mayer Artist's Hand-bk. Mat. & Techniques iii. 109 Heavy, viscous blown oils are prepared commercially in large quantities.
6. a. Plumbing. Of a joint: made with a blow-pipe. b. Electr. Of a fuse (see blow v.1 19 c).
1904Goodchild & Tweney Technol. & Sci. Dict., Blown Joint. 1909Installation News III. 137 We will allow 331/3 per cent. of the nett price for all ‘blown’ cartridge fuses of our manufacture.
7. With advs., as blown-back, blown-down, blown-up. For blown in and out see blow v.1 19.
1864Trollope Small House at Allington II. xvi. 165 The clerks in this room would not infrequently be blown up..and..the blown-up young man would refer Mr. Kissing to his enemy. 1866Blown-up [see sense 5 b]. 1878W. Morris in J. W. Mackail Life (1899) I. 360 The blown-down tree was a fine branchy tree. 1905Westm. Gaz. 13 Sept. 6/3 The blown-up steamer. 1926E. Bowen Ann Lee's 196 Her forehead and blown-back hair.
▸ U.S. slang. blown away: intoxicated with drink or drugs.
1969Current Slang 3 4 Blowed away, adj., drunk.—General young adults, both sexes, Ohio. 1973T. McGuane Ninety-two in Shade (1974) 3 Thomas Skelton was in a globe of his own hallucinatory despair, a little blown away it is true. 1987B. A. Powe Ice Eaters ii. x. 150 He lit up a hash stick, passed it to me. The two of us got blown away.
▪ II. blown, ppl. a.2
[see blow v.2]
In bloom; that has blossomed. Cf. full-blown.
c1000Sax. Leechd. II. 146 Geblowenne wyrta. a1250Owl & Night. 1636 Þe nihtegale..hupte uppon on blowe ris. 1606Shakes. Ant. & Cl. iii. xiii. 39 The blowne Rose. 1842Tennyson Lotos-Eaters 47 Petals from blown roses on the grass. 1865Swinburne Poems & Ballads, Match 5 Blown fields and flowerful closes. |