upblow

present singular third person upblows · participle present upblowing · past upblew · participle past upblown

1. archaictransitiveTo 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,” […] the pacyent hath heuynes and vpblowynge in the syde […]

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   And by his side rode loathsome Gluttony, Deformed creature, on a filthie swyne, His belly was vpblowne with luxury;

   1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 51

   With Wine inflated, Man is all upblown, And feels a Power which he believes his own;

   1810, George Crabbe, The Borough, Letter 16, p. 214

2. archaictransitiveTo explode, blow up.

   1666, anonymous, Song 37, in Thomas Davidson, Cantus, songs and Fancies, to three, four, or five parts, Aberdeen, Ingyniers in the trench earth, earth uprearing, Gun-powder in the mynes, Pagans upblowing.

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   The bridge of Lindenau has been upblown!

   1908, Thomas Hardy, The Dynasts: A Drama of the Napoleonic Wars, […], part third, London: Macmillan and Co., […], →OCLC, Act III, scene v, page 117

3. ambitransitivearchaicTo blow in an upward direction.

   1915, Vance Thompson, “Swift Reversal to Barbarism” in Horrors and Atrocities of the Great War, L.T. Myers, p. 105, A blazing August sun; a road of pebbles and stinging, upblown dust.

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   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

   1798, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, part 5, in Lyrical Ballads, London: J. & A. Arch, p. 28, The helmsman steerd, the ship mov’d on; Yet never a breeze up-blew;

   Here the rocky precipice Hurls forth redundant flames, and from the rim A blast upblown, with forcible rebuff Driveth them back,

   1814, Dante Alighieri, “The Vision of Purgatory”, in Henry Francis Cary, transl., The Divine Comedy, Canto 25

   The woods break down, the sand upblows In blinding volleys warm;

   1893, Louise Imogen Guiney, “Peter Rugg the Bostonian”, in A Roadside Harp,, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, page 3