upblow

== English == === Etymology === From Middle English upblowen, equivalent to up- +‎ blow. === Verb === upblow (third-person singular simple present upblows, present participle upblowing, simple past upblew, past participle upblown) (transitive, archaic) To 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,”[1] […] the pacyent hath heuynes and vpblowynge in the syde […] (transitive, archaic) To explode, blow up. 1666, anonymous, Song 37, in Thomas Davidson, Cantus, songs and Fancies, to three, four, or five parts, Aberdeen,[3] Ingyniers in the trench earth, earth uprearing, Gun-powder in the mynes, Pagans upblowing. (ambitransitive, archaic) To blow in an upward direction. 1798, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, part 5, in Lyrical Ballads, London: J. & A. Arch, p. 28,[4] The helmsman steerd, the ship mov’d on; Yet never a breeze up-blew; 1915, Vance Thompson, “Swift Reversal to Barbarism” in Horrors and Atrocities of the Great War, L.T. Myers, p. 105,[7] A blazing August sun; a road of pebbles and stinging, upblown dust. ==== Translations ==== === Anagrams === Publow, blow up, blow-up, blowup