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A class of air-breathing oviparous vertebrates, usually covered with scales or bony plates. The heart generally has two auricles and one ventricle. The development of the young is the same as that of birds.

Suitable for being breathed; adapted for respiration. -- Re*spir"a*ble*ness, n.

The act of respiring or breathing again, or catching one's breath.

e, to prevent the inhalation of noxious substances, as dust or smoke. Being warmed by the breath, it tempers cold air passing through it, and may also be used for the inhalation of medicated vapors.

To take breath again; hence, to take rest or refreshment. Spenser. Here leave me to respire. Milton. From the mountains where I now respire. Byron.

otho nasicornis) having a spine on the nose. -- River limpet (Zoöl.), a fresh-water, air-breathing mollusk of the genus Ancylus, having a limpet-shaped shell. -- River pirate (Zoöl.), the pike. -- River snail (Zoöl.), any species of fresh-water gastropods of Paludina, Melontho, and allied genera. See Pond snail, und…

To make a loud noise in breathing, as horses having a certain disease. See Roaring, 2. Roaring boy, a roaring, noisy fellow; -- name given, at the latter end Queen Elizabeth's reign, to the riotous fellows who raised disturbances in the street. "Two roaring boys of Rome, that made all split." Beau & Fl. -- Roaring for…

An affection of the windpipe of a horse, causing a loud, peculiar noise in breathing under exertion; the making of the noise so caused. See Roar, v. i., 5.

ects which have been near to, or in contact with, the surface are removed and the surface breathed upon; -- called also Moser's images.

Offensive to the smell; fetid; disgusting. You common cry or curs! whose breath I hate As reek of the rotten fens. Shak.

A rattling sound in the throat arising from difficulty of breathing; a rattle. [Obs.]

To tinge with sallowness. [Poetic] July breathes hot, sallows the crispy fields. Lowell.

stes and saus, as if were, of that final benefit. Hooker. Thy tongue some say of breeding breathes. Shak.

vile obedience. She must bend the servile knee. Thomson. Fearing dying pays death servile breath. Shak.

Uttered in a whisper, or with the breath alone, without voice, as certain consonants, such as p, k, t, f; surd; nonvocal; aspirated.

Not extended in time; having very limited duration; not protracted; as, short breath. The life so short, the craft so long to learn. Chaucer. To short absense I could yield. Milton.

Affected with shortness of breath; having a quick, difficult respiration, as dyspnoic and asthmatic persons. May.

ortness of an essay; the shortness of the memory; a shortness of provisions; shortness of breath.

Free from sickness. [R.] Give me long breath, young beds, and sickless ease. Marston.

To exhale (the breath) in sighs. Never man sighed truer breath. Shak.