Definition of puff

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Puff (n.) A utensil of the toilet for dusting the skin or hair with powder.

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Fungus :: Fungus (n.) Any one of the Fungi, a large and very complex group of thallophytes of low organization, -- the molds, mildews, rusts, smuts, mushrooms, toadstools, puff balls, and the allies of each..
Yeast :: Yeast (n.) The foam, or troth (top yeast), or the sediment (bottom yeast), of beer or other in fermentation, which contains the yeast plant or its spores, and under certain conditions produces fermentation in saccharine or farinaceous substances; a preparation used for raising dough for bread or cakes, and making it light and puffy; barm; ferment..
Puffer :: Puffer (n.) A kier.
Concentrator :: Concentrator (n.) An apparatus for the separation of dry comminuted ore, by exposing it to intermittent puffs of air..
Puffy :: Puffy (a.) Hence, inflated; bombastic; as, a puffy style..
Adder :: Adder (n.) A small venomous serpent of the genus Vipera. The common European adder is the Vipera (/ Pelias) berus. The puff adders of Africa are species of Clotho.
Vol-au-vent :: Vol-au-vent (n.) A light puff paste, with a raised border, filled, after baking, usually with a ragout of fowl, game, or fish..
Puff :: Puff (v. t.) To inflate with pride, flattery, self-esteem, or the like; -- often with up..
Puffer :: Puffer (n.) The common, or harbor, porpoise..
Huffy :: Huffy (a.) Puffed up; as, huffy bread..
Puffer :: Puffer (n.) Any plectognath fish which inflates its body, as the species of Tetrodon and Diodon; -- called also blower, puff-fish, swellfish, and globefish..
Rise :: Rise (v.) To swell or puff up in the process of fermentation; to become light, as dough, and the like..
Puff :: Puff (n.) An exaggerated or empty expression of praise, especially one in a public journal..
Efflate :: Efflate (v. t.) To fill with breath; to puff up.
Puff :: Puff (v. t.) To cause to swell or dilate; to inflate; to ruffle with puffs; -- often with up; as, a bladder puffed with air..
Puffer :: Puffer (n.) One who is employed by the owner or seller of goods sold at suction to bid up the price; a by-bidder.
Whisk :: Whisk (n.) The act of whisking; a rapid, sweeping motion, as of something light; a sudden motion or quick puff..
Bloat :: Bloat (v. i.) To grow turgid as by effusion of liquid in the cellular tissue; to puff out; to swell.
Puff :: Puff (n.) a kind of light pastry.
Hagdon :: Hagdon (n.) One of several species of sea birds of the genus Puffinus; esp., P. major, the greater shearwarter, and P. Stricklandi, the black hagdon or sooty shearwater; -- called also hagdown, haglin, and hag. See Shearwater..
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