upblow

From Middle English upblowen, equivalent to up- +‎ blow.

upblow (third-person singular simple present upblows, present participle upblowing, simple past upblew, past participle upblown)

1. (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,”

     the pacyent hath heuynes and vpblowynge in the syde

   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. , London: [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 51:

     And by his side rode loathsome Gluttony,
     Deformed creature, on a filthie swyne,
     His belly was vpblowne with luxury;

   • 1810, George Crabbe, The Borough‎, Letter 16, p. 214:

     With Wine inflated, Man is all upblown,
     And feels a Power which he believes his own;

2. (transitive, archaic) To explode, blow up.
   • 1666, anonymous, Song 37, in Thomas Davidson, Cantus, songs and Fancies, to three, four, or five parts, Aberdeen,

     Ingyniers in the trench

     earth, earth uprearing,

     Gun-powder in the mynes,

     Pagans upblowing.

   • 1908, Thomas Hardy, The Dynasts: A Drama of the Napoleonic Wars, , part third, London: Macmillan and Co., , →OCLC, Act III, scene v, page 117:

     The bridge of Lindenau has been upblown!

3. (transitive, intransitive, archaic) To blow in an upward direction.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. , London: [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 447:

     The watry Southwinde from the seabord coste
     Vpblowing, doth disperse the vapour lo’ste,

   • 1798, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, part 5, in Lyrical Ballads, London: J. & A. Arch, p. 28,

     The helmsman steerd, the ship mov’d on;

     Yet never a breeze up-blew;

   • 1814, Dante Alighieri, “The Vision of Purgatory”, in Henry Francis Cary, transl., The Divine Comedy‎, Canto 25:

     Here the rocky precipice
     Hurls forth redundant flames, and from the rim
     A blast upblown, with forcible rebuff
     Driveth them back,

   • 1893, Louise Imogen Guiney, “Peter Rugg the Bostonian”, in A Roadside Harp,‎, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, page 3:

     The woods break down, the sand upblows
     In blinding volleys warm;

   • 1915, Vance Thompson, “Swift Reversal to Barbarism” in Horrors and Atrocities of the Great War, L.T. Myers, p. 105,

     A blazing August sun; a road of pebbles and stinging, upblown dust.

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