Thanks for using this online dictionary, we have been helping millions of people improve their use of the english language with its free online services. English definition of puff is as below...

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..

Puff :: Puff (n.) A puffball.

Puffin :: Puffin (n.) An arctic sea bird Fratercula arctica) allied to the auks, and having a short, thick, swollen beak, whence the name; -- called also bottle nose, cockandy, coulterneb, marrot, mormon, pope, and sea parrot..

Puff :: Puff (v. t.) To praise with exaggeration; to flatter; to call public attention to by praises; to praise unduly.

Peridium :: Peridium (n.) The envelope or coat of certain fungi, such as the puffballs and earthstars..

Puffball :: Puffball (n.) A kind of ball-shaped fungus (Lycoperdon giganteum, and other species of the same genus) full of dustlike spores when ripe; -- called also bullfist, bullfice, puckfist, puff, and puffin..

Bellied :: Bellied (a.) Having (such) a belly; puffed out; -- used in composition; as, pot-bellied; shad-bellied..

Effume :: Effume (v. t.) To breathe or puff out.

Hognosesnake :: Hognosesnake () A harmless North American snake of the genus Heterodon, esp. H. platyrhynos; -- called also puffing adder, blowing adder, and sand viper..

Shearwater :: Shearwater (n.) Any one of numerous species of long-winged oceanic birds of the genus Puffinus and related genera. They are allied to the petrels, but are larger. The Manx shearwater (P. Anglorum), the dusky shearwater (P. obscurus), and the greater shearwater (P. major), are well-known species of the North Atlantic. See Hagdon..

Puffy :: Puffy (a.) Swelled with air, or any soft matter; tumid with a soft substance; bloated; fleshy; as, a puffy tumor..

Swell :: Swell (v. t.) To raise to arrogance; to puff up; to inflate; as, to be swelled with pride or haughtiness..

Windiness :: Windiness (n.) Tumor; puffiness.

Purse-proud :: Purse-proud (a.) Affected with purse pride; puffed up with the possession of riches.

Puff :: Puff (n.) a kind of light pastry.

Puffed :: Puffed (imp. & p. p.) of Puf.

Sea Pad :: Sea pad () The puffin.

Boln :: Boln (v. i.) To swell; to puff.

Whisk :: Whisk (n.) The act of whisking; a rapid, sweeping motion, as of something light; a sudden motion or quick puff..

Rat :: Rat (n.) A round and tapering mass of hair, or similar material, used by women to support the puffs and rolls of their natural hair..

Random Fonts

Most Popular