sufflare

sufflare [CL] 1 to breathe out, exhale, blow. b (vitam ~are) to die. dum ~amus, non de nostra substantia flatum facimus, sed aerem traductum remittimus H. Reading (I) Dial. V 1206C.  b s1314 fractis cervicibus ‥ vitam ‥ ~avit Flor. Hist. III 168 (cf. ib. III 173: s1315 sentencie capitali adductus miserabiliter in solo cum sanguine vitam ~avit). 2 to blow (bellows). 1409 uxori dicti J. G. le bellowes ibidem ~anti et petras minere frangenti vij d. Ac. Forge Durh. 520 (cf. ib. 525: uxori ‥ folles ~anti in opere predicto faciendo). 3 to blow on or in. b to smelt. c (in disdain or derision, in quot. transf.) to pooh-pooh. Deus in ejus faciem ~avit [cf. Gen. ii 7] Bede Gen. 43B; dixerit alium fuisse Spiritum sanctum quem ~ans dedit [cf. Joh. xx 22] Alcuin Dogm. 68D; divites superbientes similes sunt pueris qui ~ant in vesicam S. Langton Serm. 2 10; non potest os ambo plenum ferrine et ignem ~are [AS: blawan] Prov. Durh. 43; quia in ista castigacione posset taliter respondere et forsitan sic ~are [ME: blowen] quod scintilla in ignem excresceret AncrR 28; in potum sufflare tuum nolito cibumque Doctus dicetur 35.  b 1508 cum nominibus omnium sufflatorum sive fabricatorum peciarum stanni ~ati sive fabricati in eisdem domibus (Pat) Rec. Stan. 31.  c senioribus nostris semper contradicentibus et chartas ‥ ostendentibus, ille jura nostra ~avit et coram regiis justiciariis se palam verificaturum ipsa tenementa sua esse patrimonia ‥ promisit Croyl. 77. 4 to blow at (so as to cause to move). 1496 ‥ Agnete Walbot q[uo]d ip[s]a se elongavit se ex[tr]a Civitat[em] cit[r]a xiiij diem tunc p[ro]x' sequ' sub pe[n]a xl s. et sub pe[n]a ip[s]ius Agnet' Sufflar' ex[tr]a villam cum uno bagpype [marg.: blowen out of the Cite w[i]th a bag pype] MS Norf RO NCR Case 17d First Book of Worsted Weavers f. 28v. 5 to extinguish by blowing (on), to blow out. b (transf.) to neutralize (threat or sim.). sagittarius quidam ‥ ignem Brigide ore ~avit Gir. TH II 48 (cf. ib.: sic ignem Brigidae ~avi); s1316 sic deliberacio dispensativa summi pontificis insolenciarum regis acerbitatem ‥ in cinerem ~avit Flor. Hist. III 177.  b 1321 ~atis adversari volencium machinacionibus FormOx 71; sylvam ‥ jaculorum et telorum, quae thorace fidelissima ~averat, in se projectam circumferens Croyl. 37.