Overblow

[әuvә'blәu]

Definition

(v. i.) To blow over, or be subdued.

(v. i.) To force so much wind into a pipe that it produces an overtone, or a note higher than the natural note; thus, the upper octaves of a flute are produced by overblowing.

(v. t.) To blow away; to dissipate by wind, or as by wind.

Inputed by Giles

Definition

v.t. to cover with blossoms or flowers.—adj. Overblown′ past the time of flower withered.

v.i. to blow over or to be past its violence: to blow with too much violence.—v.t. to blow away: to blow across.—adj. Overblown′ blown over or past at an end: burnt by an excessive blast in the Bessemer steel process.

Checker: Otis