*lown*

p. p. & a. 1. Swollen; inflated; distended; puffed up, as cattle when gorged with green food which develops gas. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Stale; worthless. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Out of breath; tired; exhausted. “Their horses much blown.” Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Covered with the eggs and larvæ of flies; fly blown. [ 1913 Webster ]

p. p. & a. Opened; in blossom or having blossomed, as a flower. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. having a lack of experience of life.
Syn. -- jejuneness. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Cf. Icel. klunni a clumsy, boorish fellow, North Fries. klönne clown, dial. Sw. klunn log, Dan. klunt log, block, and E. clump, n. ] 1. A man of coarse nature and manners; an awkward fellow; an ill-bred person; a boor. Sir P. Sidney. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One who works upon the soil; a rustic; a churl. [ 1913 Webster ]

The clown, the child of nature, without guile. Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The fool or buffoon in a play, circus, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

The clown shall make those laugh whose lungs are tickle o'the sere. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To act as a clown; -- with it. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Beshrew me, he clowns it properly indeed. B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Behavior or manners of a clown; clownery. [ Obs. ] B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Clownishness. L'Estrange. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. acting like a clown or buffoon.
Syn. -- buffoonery, frivolity, harlequinade, prank. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. a comic incident or series of incidents.
Syn. -- drollery, comedy, funniness. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Of or resembling a clown, or characteristic of a clown; ungainly; awkward. “Clownish hands.” Spenser. “Clownish mimic.” Prior.

-- Clown"ish*ly, adv.

Syn. -- Coarse; rough; clumsy; awkward; ungainly; rude; uncivil; ill-bred; boorish; rustic; untutored. [1913 Webster]

n. The manners of a clown; coarseness or rudeness of behavior. [ 1913 Webster ]

That plainness which the alamode people call clownishness. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A well or opening, through the successive floors of a warehouse or manufactory, through which goods are raised or lowered. [ U.S. ] Bartlett. [ 1913 Webster ]

p. p. of Fly; -- often used with the auxiliary verb to be; as, the birds are flown. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Flushed, inflated. [ Supposed by some to be a mistake for blown or swoln. ] Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

Then wander forth the sons
Of Belial, flown with insolence and wine. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Tainted or contaminated with flyblows; damaged; foul. [ 1913 Webster ]

Wherever flyblown reputations were assembled. Thackeray. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Fully expanded, as a blossom; completely developed; as, a full-blown rose. Denham. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Fully distended with wind, as a sail. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Hence: Of full intensity; as, the recession developed into full-blown depression; a full-blown international crisis. [ PJC ]

a. Inflated, as with conceit. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Elevated; proud. “High-flown hopes.” Denham. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Turgid; extravagant; bombastic; inflated; as, high-flown language. M. Arnold. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. State of being hollow. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Insincerity; unsoundness; treachery. South. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Blown in or into. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Loon. ] A low fellow. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state or quality of being low. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Quality or state of being mellow. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Inflated with wind. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Having been given more publicity than warranted; having had ascribed more importance than was justified; as, an overblown medical discovery. [ PJC ]

3. Bombastic, pretentious, or excessive; as, overblown rhetoric. [ PJC ]

‖prop. n. [ NL. So named from the Russian princess Anna Pavlovna. ] (Bot.) A genus of trees of the order Scrophulariaceæ, consisting of one species, Paulownia imperialis. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The tree is native to Japan, and has immense heart-shaped leaves, and large purplish flowers in panicles. The capsules contain many little winged seeds, which are beautiful microscopic objects. The tree is hardy in America as far north as Connecticut. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality or condition of being sallow. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Quality or state of being shallow. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality or state of being slow. [ 1913 Webster ]