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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
blower
    n 1: a device that produces a current of air
    2: a fan run by an electric motor [syn: electric fan,
       blower]
    3: large aquatic carnivorous mammal with fin-like forelimbs no
       hind limbs, including: whales; dolphins; porpoises; narwhals
       [syn: cetacean, cetacean mammal, blower]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Puffer \Puff"er\, n.
   1. One who puffs; one who praises with noisy or extravagant
      commendation.
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   2. One who is employed by the owner or seller of goods sold
      at suction to bid up the price; a by-bidder. --Bouvier.
      [1913 Webster]

   3. (Zool.)
      (a) Any plectognath fish which inflates its body, as the
          species of Tetrodon and Diodon of the family
          Tetraodontidae; -- called also blower,
          puff-fish, swellfish, and globefish. They are
          highly poisonous due to the presence of glands
          containing a potent toxin, tetrodotoxin.
          Nevertheless they are eaten as a delicacy in Japan,
          being prepared by specially licensed chefs who remove
          the poison glands.
      (b) The common, or harbor, porpoise.
          [1913 Webster]

   4. (Dyeing) A kier.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Blower \Blow"er\, n.
   1. One who, or that which, blows.
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   2. (Mech.) A device for producing a current of air; as:
      (a) A metal plate temporarily placed before the upper part
          of a grate or open fire.
      (b) A machine for producing an artificial blast or current
          of air by pressure, as for increasing the draft of a
          furnace, ventilating a building or shaft, cleansing
          gram, etc.
          [1913 Webster]

   3. A blowing out or excessive discharge of gas from a hole or
      fissure in a mine.
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   4. The whale; -- so called by seamen, from the circumstance
      of its spouting up a column of water.
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   5. (Zool.) A small fish of the Atlantic coast (Tetrodon
      turgidus); the puffer.
      [1913 Webster]

   6. A braggart, or loud talker. [Slang] --Bartlett.
      [1913 Webster]

Thesaurus Results for Blower:

1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
Captain Bobadil, Gascon, Texan, aerator, air conditioner, air cooler, air filter, air passage, bellows, big mouth, blowgun, blowhard, blowpipe, blowtube, blusterer, boaster, brag, braggadocio, braggart, cooling system, electric fan, exhaust fan, fan, fanfaron, flabellum, gasbag, gasconader, hector, hot-air artist, miles gloriosus, punkah, rodomontade, thermantidote, ventilator, windbag, windcatcher, windjammer, windsail, windscoop, windy
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