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Meaning of OVERBLOW

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Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
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  1. \O`ver*blow"\, v. i.
    1. To blow over, or be subdued. [R.] --Spenser.
    
    2. (Mus.) To force so much wind into a pipe that it produces
       an overtone, or a note higher than the natural note; thus,
       the upper octaves of a flute are produced by overblowing.
    
    
  2. \O`ver*blow"\, v. t.
    To blow away; to dissipate by wind, or as by wind.
    
          When this cloud of sorrow's overblown.   --Waller.
    
    
 

 

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