2. Noun. (plural of bloat) ¹
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Definition of Bloats
1. bloat [v] - See also: bloat
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bloats
Literary usage of Bloats
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of Domestic Medicine: Giving a Description of Diseases by John Henry Clarke (1901)
"Patients very restless, anxious, delirious; twitch, and throw themselves about;
abdomen bloats, is very sensitive to touch; diarrhoea sets in. Sulph. ..."
2. Russell's Magazine by Paul Hamilton Payne (1857)
"And if folly bloats into crime, or fuddles into fury, we shall «till shoot ...
Al what stage of the- dropsical process by which folly bloats into crime, ..."
3. Henry Oscar Houghton: A Biographical Outline by Horace Elisha Scudder (1897)
"Without any essential reason on either of our parts, Houghton fell to the Blues
and I to the bloats, and my party was in power in holding the offices during ..."
4. Pamphlets and Clippings in a Business Library by Virginia Fairfax (1921)
"For example, "bloats" and "Swells" are terms used in the canning industry to
indicate defective cans of food and mean the same thing. ..."
5. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1884)
"... touches the pipe to a live coal, gives a suck, bloats his cheeks for a moment
with the warm smoke, and then expels it in two streams from his nostrils; ..."
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