GNU Collaborative International Dictionary of English

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   Overblow (?), v. i.
   1. To blow over, or be subdued. [R.]  Spenser.
   
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   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.
   
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   Overblow, v. t.
   1. To blow away; to dissipate by wind, or as by wind.
   
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   When this cloud of sorrow's overblown. Waller.
   
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   2. To ascribe an unwarranted importance to.
   
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   3. (Music) To blow into (a wind instrument) too strongly, so as to produce predominantly overtones.
   
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