blower, n. (Slang) [braggart], [boaster], vaunter.
blowhole, n. spiracle.
blow out. extinguish.
blow-out, n. (Colloq.) jollification, [celebration], [feast], merry-making.
blowpipe analysis. Associated word: pyritology.
blue, a. azure, cerulean, cerulific, sapphire, sapphirine, amethystine, turquoise, ultramarine, sky-colored; [livid], ecchymosed; [rigorous], [severe]; (Colloq.) [melancholy], [downhearted], [depressed], [despondent], dejected, low-spirited, dispirited, hypochondriac, chapfallen, [gloomy], (Colloq.) [gloomy], inauspicious, [dismal], depressing; (Colloq.) pedantic, literary.
blue, n. azure, amethystine, sapphirine, cerulean; cyanin, anthokyan, anthocyanin.
blue jaundice. cyanopathy, cyanosis.
blues, n. pl. (Colloq.) [despondency], [melancholy], dismals, vapors, [depression], blue devils, hypochondria, [dumps], megrims.
bluff, a. [abrupt], [unceremonious], brusque; [gruff], [surly]; precipitous, [steep], [abrupt].