Definition of breath

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Breath (n.) Fragrance; exhalation; odor; perfume.

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Suspire :: Suspiration (n.) The act of sighing, or fetching a long and deep breath; a deep respiration; a sigh..
Giggle :: Giggle (v. t.) To laugh with short catches of the breath or voice; to laugh in a light, affected, or silly manner; to titter with childish levity..
Wheezy :: Wheezy (a.) Breathing with difficulty and with a wheeze; wheezing. Used also figuratively.
Anhelous :: Anhelous (a.) Short of breath; panting.
Stopcock :: Stop (n.) Some part of the articulating organs, as the lips, or the tongue and palate, closed (a) so as to cut off the passage of breath or voice through the mouth and the nose (distinguished as a lip-stop, or a front-stop, etc., as in p, t, d, etc.), or (b) so as to obstruct, but not entirely cut off, the passage, as in l, n, etc.; also, any of the consonants so formed..
Puff :: Puff (n.) A sudden and single emission of breath from the mouth; hence, any sudden or short blast of wind; a slight gust; a whiff..
Inspire :: Inspire (v. t.) To draw in by the operation of breathing; to inhale; -- opposed to expire.
Sigh :: Sigh (v. t.) To exhale (the breath) in sighs.
Blast :: Blast (n.) The sound made by blowing a wind instrument; strictly, the sound produces at one breath..
Throttle :: Throttle (v. i.) To breathe hard, as when nearly suffocated..
Expiration :: Expiration (n.) The last emission of breath; death.
Pupa :: Pupa (n.) A genus of air-breathing land snails having an elongated spiral shell.
Breathing :: Breathing (n.) Air in gentle motion.
Breathing :: Breathing (n.) Utterance; communication or publicity by words.
Heave :: Heave (n.) An upward motion; a rising; a swell or distention, as of the breast in difficult breathing, of the waves, of the earth in an earthquake, and the like..
Afflatus :: Afflatus (n.) A breath or blast of wind.
Take :: Take (v. t.) To remove; to withdraw; to deduct; -- with from; as, to take the breath from one; to take two from four..
Atonic :: Atonic (n.) An element of speech entirely destitute of vocality, or produced by the breath alone; a nonvocal or surd consonant; a breathing..
Air Bladder :: Air bladder () An air sac, sometimes double or variously lobed, in the visceral cavity of many fishes. It originates in the same way as the lungs of air-breathing vertebrates, and in the adult may retain a tubular connection with the pharynx or esophagus..
Subtonic :: Subtonic (a.) Applied to, or distinguishing, a speech element consisting of tone, or proper vocal sound, not pure as in the vowels, but dimmed and otherwise modified by some kind of obstruction in the oral or the nasal passage, and in some cases with a mixture of breath sound; -- a term introduced by Dr. James Rush in 1833. See Guide to Pronunciation, //155, 199-202..
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