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BL'AST, v.t. [Literally, to strike.] To make to wither by some pernicious influence, as too much heat or moisture, or other destructive cause; or to check growth and prevent from coming to maturity and producing fruit; to blight, as trees or plants. 1. To affect with some sudden violence,plague, calamity, or destructive influence, which destroys or causes to fail; as, to blast pride or hopes. The figurative senses of this verb are taken from the blasting of plants, and all express the idea of checking growth, preventing maturity, impairing, injuring, destroying, or disappointing of the intended effect; as, to blast credit, or reputation; to blast designs.2. To confound, or strike with force, by a loud blast or din.3. To split rocks by an explosion of gun powder.They did not stop to blast this ore.
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BL'AST, v.t. [Literally, to strike.] To make to wither by some pernicious influence, as too much heat or moisture, or other destructive cause; or to check growth and prevent from coming to maturity and producing fruit; to blight, as trees or plants. 1. To affect with some sudden violence,plague, calamity, or destructive influence, which destroys or causes to fail; as, to blast pride or hopes. The figurative senses of this verb are taken from the blasting of plants, and all express the idea of checking growth, preventing maturity, impairing, injuring, destroying, or disappointing of the intended effect; as, to blast credit, or reputation; to blast designs.2. To confound, or strike with force, by a loud blast or din.3. To split rocks by an explosion of gun powder.They did not stop to blast this ore. |
BLAST, n. [Sax. blæst, a puff of wind, a blowing; Sw. blåst; Dan. blæst; Ger. blasen; D. blaazen; Dan. blæser; Sw. blåsa, to blow; whence Ger. blase, D. blaas, Sw. blåsa, a bladder. Hence Eng. blaze, which is primarily a blowing or swelling. Ice. bloes, to blow. Qu. Fr. blaser, to burn up, to consume. The primary sense is to rush or drive; hence to strike.]- A gust or puff of wind; or a sudden gust of wind.
- The sound made by blowing a wind instrument. – Shak.
- Any pernicious or destructive influence upon animals or plants.
- The infection of any thing pestilential; a blight on plants.
- A sudden compression of air, attended with a shock, caused by the discharge of cannon.
- A forcible stream of air from the mouth, from the bellows or the like.
- A violent explosion of gunpowder, in splitting rocks, and the explosion of inflammable air in a mine.
- The whole blowing of a forge necessary to melt one supply of ore; a common use of the word among workmen in forges in America.
BLAST, v.t. [Literally, to strike.]- To make to wither by some pernicious influence, as too much heat or moisture, or other destructive cause; or to check growth and prevent from coming to maturity and producing fruit; to blight, as trees or plants.
- To affect with some sudden violence, plague, calamity, or destructive influence, which destroys or causes to fail; as, to blast pride or hopes. The figurative senses of this verb are taken from the blasting of plants, and all express the idea of checking growth, preventing maturity, impairing, injuring, destroying, or disappointing of the intended effect; as, to blast credit, or reputation; to blast designs.
- To confound, or strike with force, by a loud blast or din. – Shak.
- To split rocks by an explosion of gunpowder.
They did not stop to blast this ore. – Forster's Kalm's Travels.
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-blast
- A suffix or
terminal formative, used principally in biological terms, and signifying
growth, formation; as, bioblast, epiblast,
mesoblast, etc.
- A
violent gust of wind.
- To injure, as by a noxious wind] to cause to
wither; to stop or check the growth of, and prevent from fruit-bearing, by
some pernicious influence; to blight; to shrivel.
- To be
blighted or withered; as, the bud blasted in the blossom.
- A forcible stream of air from an orifice, as
from a bellows, the mouth, etc. Hence: The continuous blowing to which one
charge of ore or metal is subjected in a furnace; as, to melt so many tons
of iron at a blast.
- Hence, to affect with some sudden violence,
plague, calamity, or blighting influence, which destroys or causes to fail;
to visit with a curse; to curse; to ruin; as, to blast pride, hopes,
or character.
- To blow; to blow on a trumpet.
- The exhaust steam from and engine, driving a
column of air out of a boiler chimney, and thus creating an intense draught
through the fire; also, any draught produced by the blast.
- To confound by a loud blast or din.
- The sound made by blowing a wind instrument;
strictly, the sound produces at one breath.
- To rend open by any explosive agent, as
gunpowder, dynamite, etc.; to shatter; as, to blast rocks.
- A sudden, pernicious effect, as if by a noxious
wind, especially on animals and plants; a blight.
- The act of rending, or attempting to rend, heavy
masses of rock, earth, etc., by the explosion of gunpowder, dynamite, etc.;
also, the charge used for this purpose.
- A flatulent disease of sheep.
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Blast BL'AST, verb transitive [Literally, to strike.] To make to wither by some pernicious influence, as too much heat or moisture, or other destructive cause; or to check growth and prevent from coming to maturity and producing fruit; to blight, as trees or plants. 1. To affect with some sudden violence, plague, calamity, or destructive influence, which destroys or causes to fail; as, to blast pride or hopes. The figurative senses of this verb are taken from the blasting of plants, and all express the idea of checking growth, preventing maturity, impairing, injuring, destroying, or disappointing of the intended effect; as, to blast credit, or reputation; to blast designs. 2. To confound, or strike with force, by a loud blast or din. 3. To split rocks by an explosion of gun powder. They did not stop to blast this ore. |
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