Definition of puff

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Puff (v. t.) To cause to swell or dilate; to inflate; to ruffle with puffs; -- often with up; as, a bladder puffed with air..

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Puff :: Puff (n.) To blow, as an expression of scorn; -- with at..
Cat''s-paw :: Cat's-paw (n.) A light transitory air which ruffles the surface of the water during a calm, or the ripples made by such a puff of air..
Puff :: Puff (n.) A puffball.
Puckfist :: Puckfist (n.) A puffball.
Puff :: Puff (n.) An exaggerated or empty expression of praise, especially one in a public journal..
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..
Coulterneb :: Coulterneb (n.) The puffin.
Blower :: Blower (n.) A small fish of the Atlantic coast (Tetrodon turgidus); the puffer.
Puffin :: Puffin (n.) The puffball.
Adder :: Adder (n.) In America, the term is commonly applied to several harmless snakes, as the milk adder, puffing adder, etc..
Auk :: Auk (n.) A name given to various species of arctic sea birds of the family Alcidae. The great auk, now extinct, is Alca (/ Plautus) impennis. The razor-billed auk is A. torda. See Puffin, Guillemot, and Murre..
Inflation :: Inflation (n.) The state of being puffed up, as with pride; conceit; vanity..
Puff :: Puff (n.) To swell with air; to be dilated or inflated.
Tomnoddy :: Tomnoddy (n.) A sea bird, the puffin..
Smoke :: Smoke (v. t.) To inhale and puff out the smoke of, as tobacco; to burn or use in smoking; as, to smoke a pipe or a cigar..
Puff :: Puff (v. t.) To inflate with pride, flattery, self-esteem, or the like; -- often with up..
Chuffy :: Chuffy (a.) Fat or puffed out in the cheeks.
Lycoperdon :: Lycoperdon (n.) A genus of fungi, remarkable for the great quantity of spores, forming a fine dust, which is thrown out like smoke when the plant is compressed or burst; puffball..
Pluff :: Pluff (n.) A hairdresser's powder puff; also, the act of using it..
Effume :: Effume (v. t.) To breathe or puff out.
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