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- verb Obsolete spelling of
blow . - verb obsolete Past participle of
blow (to flower, blossom)
Etymologies
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Examples
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You go Tiger, This nonense will blowe away as soon as the next unsespecting sheep makes it's move right into media frezie.
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Your force, to breake, blowe, burn and make me new.
rough week Dymphna 2008
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July 18, 2008 at 9:48 am duz kittehs hav axess to sum fiybr sereyl liek kolen blowe?
I not eat kitteh toys no moar… - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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Your force, to breake, blowe, burn and make me new.
Archive 2008-06-01 Dymphna 2008
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Thei fighte all with a quarter blowe, and neither right downe, ne foyning.
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And giueth hym a blowe on the lefte chieke, for a remembraunce of the
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When Calandrino was returned backe to his businesse, he could do nothing else, but shake the head, sigh, puffe, and blowe, which being observed by Bruno (who alwayes fitted him according to his folly, as making a meer mockery of his very best behaviour) sodainly he said.
The Decameron 2004
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Before they depart to passe the Sholds, the small shippes and flat bottomed boates goe together in companie, and when they haue sailed sixe and thirtie miles, they arriue at the place where the Sholdes are, and at that place the windes blowe so forciblie, that they are forced to goe thorowe, not hauing any other refuge to saue themselues.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Bantam, nothing but a cloth about their middles: Their weapons is, each man a poinyarde at their backes, and a trunke with an iron point like a speare, about a fadom and a halfe long, out of the which they blowe certaine arrowes, whereof they haue a case full; it is an euil weapon for naked men: they are enemies to the Mores and Portingalles.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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For in those parts the windes blow firmely for certaine times, with the which they goe to Pegu with the winde in poope, and if they arriue not there before the winde change, and get ground to anker, perforce they must returne backe againe: for that the gales of the winde blowe there for three or foure moneths together in one place with great force.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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