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-leg :: Puff-leg (n.) Any one of numerous species of beautiful humming birds of the genus Eriocnemis having large tufts of downy feathers on the legs.
Flatus :: Flatus (n.) A breath; a puff of wind.
Puff :: Puff (n.) To breathe quick and hard, or with puffs, as after violent exertion..
Blower :: Blower (n.) A small fish of the Atlantic coast (Tetrodon turgidus); the puffer.
Puff :: Puff (n.) To swell with air; to be dilated or inflated.
Tumid :: Tumid (a.) Swelling in sound or sense; pompous; puffy; inflated; bombastic; falsely sublime; turgid; as, a tumid expression; a tumid style..
Tomnoddy :: Tomnoddy (n.) A sea bird, the puffin..
Puffin :: Puffin (n.) The puffball.
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..
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..
Vain :: Vain (superl.) Proud of petty things, or of trifling attainments; having a high opinion of one's own accomplishments with slight reason; conceited; puffed up; inflated..
Peridium :: Peridium (n.) The envelope or coat of certain fungi, such as the puffballs and earthstars..
Efflate :: Efflate (v. t.) To fill with breath; to puff up.
Puff :: Puff (a.) Puffed up; vain.
Puff :: Puff (n.) To breathe in a swelling, inflated, or pompous manner; hence, to assume importance..
Lunt :: Lunt (n.) A puff of smoke.
Whiff :: Whiff (v. t.) To carry or convey by a whiff, or as by a whiff; to puff or blow away..
Whiffet :: Whiffet (n.) A little whiff or puff.
Bloat :: Bloat (v. i.) To grow turgid as by effusion of liquid in the cellular tissue; to puff out; to swell.
Bloated :: Bloated (p. a.) Distended beyond the natural or usual size, as by the presence of water, serum, etc.; turgid; swollen; as, a bloated face. Also, puffed up with pride; pompous..
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