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  1.                 From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
                    

    Puffer \Puff"er\, n. 1. One who puffs; one who praises with noisy or extravagant commendation. [1913 Webster]

    2. One who is employed by the owner or seller of goods sold at suction to bid up the price; a by-bidder. --Bouvier. [1913 Webster]

    3. (Zool.) (a) Any plectognath fish which inflates its body, as the species of Tetrodon and Diodon of the family Tetraodontidae; -- called also blower, puff-fish, swellfish, and globefish. They are highly poisonous due to the presence of glands containing a potent toxin, tetrodotoxin. Nevertheless they are eaten as a delicacy in Japan, being prepared by specially licensed chefs who remove the poison glands. (b) The common, or harbor, porpoise. [1913 Webster]

    4. (Dyeing) A kier. [1913 Webster]

  2.                 From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
                    

    Blower \Blow"er\, n. 1. One who, or that which, blows. [1913 Webster]

    2. (Mech.) A device for producing a current of air; as: (a) A metal plate temporarily placed before the upper part of a grate or open fire. (b) A machine for producing an artificial blast or current of air by pressure, as for increasing the draft of a furnace, ventilating a building or shaft, cleansing gram, etc. [1913 Webster]

    3. A blowing out or excessive discharge of gas from a hole or fissure in a mine. [1913 Webster]

    4. The whale; -- so called by seamen, from the circumstance of its spouting up a column of water. [1913 Webster]

    5. (Zool.) A small fish of the Atlantic coast (Tetrodon turgidus); the puffer. [1913 Webster]

    6. A braggart, or loud talker. [Slang] --Bartlett. [1913 Webster]