A gust or puff of wind; or a sudden gust of wind.

The sound made by blowing a wind instrument.

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 a bellows or the like.

A violent explosion of gun powder, 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 American.