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  1.  That blasts, in various senses of the vb.; blighting, striking with baleful effect, defaming, etc.

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1591.  Percivall, Sp. Dict., Sereno, the blasting aire … sideratio.

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1603.  Shaks., Meas. for M., V. i. 122. A blasting and a scandalous breath.

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1667.  Milton, P. L., IV. 929. The blasting volied Thunder.

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1810.  Southey, Kehama, III. ii. Is he left … alone, To bear his blasting curse?

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1861.  Gen. P. Thompson, Audi Alt., III. cxlv. 131. Every blasting abomination to be raked up in the middle ages.

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  2.  fig. Boastful. (Sc.)

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1786.  Har’st Rig., in Chambers, Pop. Scot. Poems (1862), 44. When in a blasting tift.

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