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puffin

Definitions

noun

  1. any of two genera of northern seabirds having short necks and brightly colored compressed bills

Examples

A battery powers an atomizer which is triggered by "puffing" on the cartridge of the device.

He filled it with tobacco and lit it, puffing the sweet smelling smoke around the car.

Esquimaux, with his daily twenty-pound quantum of train-oil, gravy, and tallow-candles, -- the alderman puffing over callipash and callipee, -- the backwoodsman hungering after fattest of pork, -- such men as these were no common sinners: they were assassins who struck at the very fountain of life, and throttled a human stomach.

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