The act of striking or hitting. / A sudden or forcible act or effort; an assault. / A damaging occurrence.

To blossom; to cause to bloom or blossom.

A mass or display of flowers; a yield. / A display of anything brilliant or bright. / A bloom, state of flowering.

(automotive) In an internal combustion engine, any burnt or unburnt matter escaping from the cylinder, past the (worn) rings on the piston, and into the crankcase.

A blow struck to the side or from the side, as in swordplay; a secondary or incidental strike of any sort. / (slang) An illegitimate child; a child of an unknown or unmarried father.

plural of blow

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of blow

(dialect) simple past tense and past participle of blow

plural of by-blow

(obsolete) past participle of blow (to flower, blossom)