Part 1371

<p><b>7.</b> <def>A single word; the slightest effort; a triffle.</def>

<blockquote>A <b>breath</b> can make them, as a <b>breath</b> has made. <i>Goldsmith.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>8.</b> <def>A very slight breeze; air in gentle motion.</def>

<blockquote>Calm and unruffled as a summer's sea, when not a <b>breath</b> of wind flies o'er its surface. <i>Addison.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>9.</b> <def>Fragrance; exhalation; odor; perfume.</def>

<i>Tennison.</i>

<blockquote>The <b>breath</b> of flowers. <i>Bacon.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>10.</b> <def>Gentle exercise, causing a quicker respiration.</def>

<blockquote>An after dinner's <b>breath</b>. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<cs><col>Out of breath</col>, <cd>breathless, exhausted; breathing with difficulty.</cd> -- <col>Under one's breath</col>, <cd>in low tones.</cd></cs>

<h1>Breathable</h1> <Xpage=178>

<hw>Breath"a*ble</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Such as can be breathed.</def>

<h1>Breathableness</h1> <Xpage=178>

<hw>Breath"a*ble*ness</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>State of being breathable.</def>

<h1>Breathe</h1> <Xpage=178>

<hw>Breathe</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p</tt> <er>Breathed</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Breathing</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[From <er>Breath</er>.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>To respire; to inhale and exhale air; hence;, to live.</def> "I am in health, I <i>breathe</i>."

<i>Shak.</i>

<blockquote><b>Breathes</b> there a man with soul so dead? <i>Sir W. Scott.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To take breath; to rest from action.</def>

<blockquote>Well! <b>breathe</b> awhile, and then to it again! <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>To pass like breath; noiselessly or gently; to exhale; to emanate; to blow gently.</def>

<blockquote>The air <b>breathes</b> upon us here most sweetly. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>There <b>breathes</b> a living fragrance from the shore. <i>Byron.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Breathe</h1> <Xpage=178>

<hw>Breathe</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To inhale and exhale in the process of respiration; to respire.</def>

<blockquote>To view the light of heaven, and <b>breathe</b> the vital air. <i>Dryden.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To inject by breathing; to infuse; -- with <i>into</i>.</def>