[pa. pple. of BLOW v.1]
1. Fanned, driven or tossed by the wind.
1553. Abp. Hamilton, Catech., 286. Saiffit, swa as be ane blawin fyre.
1746. Collins, Ode Liberty, 70. To the blown Baltic.
1862. Ansted, Channel Isl., IV. xx. (ed. 2), 462. Blown sea-sand covers the soil.
2. Out of breath.
1674. Marvell, Reh. Transp., II. 33. And chase the blown Deer out of their Heard.
1735. Somerville, Chase, III. 461. Now the blown Stag … Has measur’d half the Forest.
1873. Black, Pr. Thule, x. 162. Too blown to speak.
† 3. Stale, flat, that has lost its freshness; tainted.
1600. Rowlands, Lett. Humours Blood, vi. 75. Blowne drinke is odious, what man can disiest it?
1640. Bp. Hall, Episc., II. x. 139. Some blowne ware out of the pack of his Recognitions.
4. Breathed out, whispered, hinted.
1604. Shaks., Oth., III. iii. 182. When I shall turne … To such exufflicate, and blown [Fol. blow’d] Surmises.
5. Inflated; swollen; formed by inflation. Also blown-up.
c. 1425. Seven Sag. (P.), 2181. Grete blowen bladdyrs he brake.
1596. Shaks., 1 Hen. IV., IV. ii. 53. How now blowne Iack? how now Quilt?
1618. Bolton, Florus, III. v. 183. Floting on a blowne Bladder.
1830. M. Donovan, Dom. Econ., I. 93. Too quick a heat of the kiln expels the water from the malt in a state of steam, with such force as to burst the grain. This is called blown malt.
1831. Brewster, Optics, xii. 100. The thinnest films of blown glass.
1870. Swinburne, Ess. & Stud. (1875), 347. A boyish torch-bearer with blown cheeks.
b. fig. Inflated with pride or the like. arch.
1483. Caxton, Gold. Leg., 154/3. Ambrose can not be so blowen and [s]wollen as thou arte.
1605. Shaks., Lear, IV. iv. 26. No blowne Ambition doth our Armes incite.
1866. Kingsley, Herew., i. 37. More of a blown-up ass than thou art already.
