upblow

verb

1. (archaic, transitive)To inflate.

   “1525, uncredited translator, The noble experyence of the vertuous handy warke of surgeri by Brunschwig, Hieronymus, London, Chapter 48 “Of the wounde in the brest,” […] the pacyent hath heuynes and vpblowynge in the syde […]”

   “And by his side rode loathsome Gluttony, Deformed creature, on a filthie swyne, His belly was vpblowne with luxury;”

   “With Wine inflated, Man is all upblown, And feels a Power which he believes his own;”

2. (archaic, transitive)To explode, blow up.

   “1666, anonymous, Song 37, in Thomas Davidson, Cantus, songs and Fancies, to three, four, or five parts, Aberdeen, Ingyniers in the trench earth, earth uprearing, Gun-powder in the mynes, Pagans upblowing.”

   “The bridge of Lindenau has been upblown!”

3. (ambitransitive, archaic)To blow in an upward direction.

   “The watry Southwinde from the seabord coste Vpblowing, doth disperse the vapour lo’ste,”

   “1798, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, part 5, in Lyrical Ballads, London: J. & A. Arch, p. 28, The helmsman steerd, the ship mov’d on; Yet never a breeze up-blew;”

   “Here the rocky precipice Hurls forth redundant flames, and from the rim A blast upblown, with forcible rebuff Driveth them back,”

   “The woods break down, the sand upblows In blinding volleys warm;”

   “1915, Vance Thompson, “Swift Reversal to Barbarism” in Horrors and Atrocities of the Great War, L.T. Myers, p. 105, A blazing August sun; a road of pebbles and stinging, upblown dust.”