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blown ppl. a.1 (1 a very rare use)
1. whispered, hinted Oth. III. iii. 182 (Ff “blowed”).
2. swollen, inflated (lit. and fig.) 1H4 IV. ii. 54 “ Jack,” Cor. V. iv. 51 “the tide,” Lr. IV. iv. 27 “ ambition.”
A Shakespeare Glossary. C. T. Onions. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1911.

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