upblow
English
Etymology
From Middle English upblowen, equivalent to up- + blow.
Verb
upblow (third-person singular simple present upblows, present participle upblowing, simple past upblew, past participle upblown)
- (transitive, archaic) To inflate.
- 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,”[1]
- […] the pacyent hath heuynes and vpblowynge in the syde […]
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, London: William Ponsonbie, Book 1, Canto 4, p. 51,[2]
- And by his side rode loathsome Gluttony,
- Deformed creature, on a filthie swyne,
- His belly was vpblowne with luxury;
- 1810, George Crabbe, The Borough, Letter 16, p. 214,[3]
- With Wine inflated, Man is all upblown,
- And feels a Power which he believes his own;
- 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,”[1]
- (transitive, archaic) To explode, blow up.
- 1666, anonymous, Song 37, in Thomas Davidson, Cantus, songs and Fancies, to three, four, or five parts, Aberdeen,[4]
- Ingyniers in the trench
- earth, earth uprearing,
- Gun-powder in the mynes,
- Pagans upblowing.
- 1908, Thomas Hardy, The Dynasts, London: Macmillan, 1910, Part 3, Act 3, Scene 5, p. 392,[5]
- The bridge of Lindenau has been upblown!
- 1666, anonymous, Song 37, in Thomas Davidson, Cantus, songs and Fancies, to three, four, or five parts, Aberdeen,[4]
- (transitive, intransitive, archaic) To blow in an upward direction.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, London: William Ponsonbie, Book 3, Canto 4, p. 447,[6]
- The watry Southwinde from the seabord coste
- Vpblowing, doth disperse the vapour lo’ste,
- 1798, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, part 5, in Lyrical Ballads, London: J. & A. Arch, p. 28,[7]
- The helmsman steerd, the ship mov’d on;
- Yet never a breeze up-blew;
- 1814, Henry Francis Cary (translator), The Vision of Purgatory from The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri, Canto 25,[8]
- Here the rocky precipice
- Hurls forth redundant flames, and from the rim
- A blast upblown, with forcible rebuff
- Driveth them back,
- 1893, Louise Imogen Guiney, “Peter Rugg the Bostonian” in A Roadside Harp, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, p. 3,[9]
- The woods break down, the sand upblows
- In blinding volleys warm;
- 1915, Vance Thompson, “Swift Reversal to Barbarism” in Horrors and Atrocities of the Great War, L.T. Myers, p. 105,[10]
- A blazing August sun; a road of pebbles and stinging, upblown dust.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, London: William Ponsonbie, Book 3, Canto 4, p. 447,[6]