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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Puffer \Puff"er\, noun
1. One who puffs; one who praises with noisy or extravagant commendation.
2. One who is employed by the owner or seller of goods sold at suction to bid up the price; a by-bidder. --Bouvier.
3. (Zo["o]l.) (a) Any plectognath fish which inflates its body, as the species of {Tetrodon} and {Diodon} of the family {Tetraodontidae}; -- called also {blower}, {puff-fish}, {swellfish}, and {globefish}. They are highly poisonous due to the presence of glands containing a potent toxin, {tetrodotoxin}. Nevertheless they are eaten as a delicacy in Japan, being prepared by specially licensed chefs who remove the poison glands. (b) The common, or harbor, porpoise.
4. (Dyeing) A kier.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Blower \Blow"er\, noun
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. (Zo["o]l.) A small fish of the Atlantic coast ({Tetrodon turgidus}); the puffer.
6. A braggart, or loud talker. [Slang] --Bartlett.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
blower
noun
1: a device that produces a current of air
2: a fan run by an electric motor [syn: {electric fan}]
3: a mechanical device that blows air onto a fire to make it burn more fiercely [syn: {bellows}]
4: large aquatic carnivorous mammal with fin-like forelimbs no hind limbs, including: whales; dolphins; porpoises; narwhals [syn: {cetacean}, {cetacean mammal}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
40 Moby Thesaurus words for "blower": Captain Bobadil, Gascon, Texan, aerator, air conditioner, air cooler, air filter, air passage, bellows, big mouth, blowgun, blowhard, blowpipe, blowtube, blusterer, boaster, brag, braggadocio, braggart, cooling system, electric fan, exhaust fan, fan, fanfaron, flabellum, gasbag, gasconader, hector, hot-air artist, miles gloriosus, punkah, rodomontade, thermantidote, ventilator, windbag, windcatcher, windjammer, windsail, windscoop, windy
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