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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Blow·er n.
 1. One who, or that which, blows.
 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.
 3. A blowing out or excessive discharge of gas from a hole or fissure in a mine.
 4. The whale; -- so called by seamen, from the circumstance of its spouting up a column of water.
 5. Zool. A small fish of the Atlantic coast (Tetrodon turgidus); the puffer.
 6. A braggart, or loud talker. [Slang]
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