blower

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. One that blows, especially a mechanical device, such as a fan, that produces a current of air.
2. n. Slang A braggart.
3. n. Chiefly British Slang A telephone.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. One who blows. Specifically— One who is employed in a blowing-house for smelting tin.
2. n. In a glass-factory, the workman who blows the melted glass into shape.
3. n. A screen or cover of metal fitted to an open fireplace in such a way that when it is placed in position access of air to the chimney is closed except from the bottom, or through the fire itself: used to promote combustion, especially when the fire is first kindled, by concentrating the draft upon the substance to be ignited.
4. n. In coal-mining, an escape, under pressure and with high velocity, of gas or firedamp from the coal. Such escapes are sometimes sudden and of short duration; but they occasionally continue for weeks and sometimes for years.
5. n. A man employed in a mine in blasting.
6. n. A machine for forcing air into a furnace, mine, cistern, hold of a ship, public building, etc., to assist in drying, evaporating, and the like; a blowing-machine. See blowing-engine, blowing-machine.
7. n. A marine animal, as a whale, which spouts up water.
8. n. One who brags; a boaster.
9. n. A plant that blows.

Wiktionary

1. n. Person who blows.
2. n. Any device that blows.
3. n. telephone.
4. n. A ducted fan, usually part of some heating, ventilation, and/or air conditioning system.
5. n. A braggart, or loud talker.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. One who, or that which, blows.
2. n. 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. n. A blowing out or excessive discharge of gas from a hole or fissure in a mine.
4. n. The whale; -- so called by seamen, from the circumstance of its spouting up a column of water.
5. n. A small fish of the Atlantic coast (Tetrodon turgidus); the puffer.
6. n. A braggart, or loud talker.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. a fan run by an electric motor
2. n. a device that produces a current of air
3. n. large aquatic carnivorous mammal with fin-like forelimbs no hind limbs, including: whales; dolphins; porpoises; narwhals.