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Puff
Webster's Dictionary
or (1):
(v. t.) To inflate with pride, flattery, self-esteem, or the like; - often with up.
(2):
(v. t.) To repel with words; to blow at contemptuously.
(3):
(v. t.) To praise with exaggeration; to flatter; to call public attention to by praises; to praise unduly.
(4):
(n.) To breathe in a swelling, inflated, or pompous manner; hence, to assume importance.
(5):
(a.) Puffed up; vain.
(6):
(v. t.) To drive with a puff, or with puffs.
(7):
(n.) Anything light and filled with air.
(8):
(n.) To blow in puffs, or with short and sudden whiffs.
(9):
(n.) To blow, as an expression of scorn; - with at.
(10):
(n.) A sudden and single emission of breath from the mouth; hence, any sudden or short blast of wind; a slight gust; a whiff.
(11):
(n.) An exaggerated or empty expression of praise, especially one in a public journal.
(12):
(n.) A utensil of the toilet for dusting the skin or hair with powder.
(13):
(n.) a kind of light pastry.
(14):
(n.) A puffball.
(15):
(n.) To breathe quick and hard, or with puffs, as after violent exertion.
(16):
(n.) To swell with air; to be dilated or inflated.
(17):
(v. t.) To cause to swell or dilate; to inflate; to ruffle with puffs; - often with up; as, a bladder puffed with air.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Puff'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/p/puff.html. 1828.
