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3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Puffer \Puff"er\, n. 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}; -- called also {blower}, {puff-fish}, {swellfish}, and {globefish}. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Blower \Blow"er\, n. 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 1.6 [wn]: blower n 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}]
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