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pparent death, or suspended animation; the condition which results from interruption of respiration, as in suffocation or drowning, or the inhalation of irrespirable gases.

A mark of aspiration used in Greek; the asper, or rough breathing. Bentley.

h the h sound or with audible breath. But yet they are not aspirate, i. e., with such an aspiration as h. Holder.

Aspiration. [Obs.] Chapman.

Aspiration. [Obs.]

A worshiper of books; especially, a worshiper of the Bible; a believer in its verbal inspiration. De Quincey.

The air inhaled and exhaled in respiration, air which, in the process of respiration, has parted with oxygen and has received carbonic acid, aqueous vapor, warmth, etc. Melted as breath into the wind. Shak.

To inhale and exhale in the process of respiration; to respire. To view the light of heaven, and breathe the vital air. Dryden.

Respiration; the act of inhaling and exhaling air. Subject to a difficulty of breathing. Melmoth.

Having short breath or disordered respiration, as a horse.

ion of heat; to consume; to oxidize; as, a man burns a certain amount of carbon at each respiration; to burn iron in oxygen. To burn, To burn together, as two surfaces of metal (Engin.), to fuse and unite them by pouring over them a quantity of the same metal in a liquid state. -- To burn a bowl (Game of Bowls), to di…

explosion; as, a burst of thunder; a burst of applause; a burst of passion; a burst of inspiration. Bursts of fox-hunting melody. W. Irving.

iptures, called the sacred canon, or general rule of moral and religious duty, given by inspiration; the Bible; also, any one of the canonical Scriptures. See Canonical books, under Canonical, a.

Scriptures, those books which are declared by the canons of the church to be of divine inspiration; -- called collectively the canon. The Roman Catolic Church holds as canonical several books which Protestants reject as apocryphal. -- Canonical epistles, an appellation given to the epistles called also general or cat…

Of or pertaining to Castalia, a mythical fountain of inspiration on Mt. Parnassus sacred to the Muses. Milton.

A compound medicinal powder, used by the ancients to sprinkle on ulcers, to absorb perspiration, etc. Dunglison.

terspaces which may be distended with blood, as in the penis or clitoris. -- Cavernous respiration, a peculiar respiratory sound andible on auscultation, when the bronchial tubes communicate with morbid cavities in the lungs.

c affection of the muscles of the breast and fore legs of a horse, affecting motion and respiration.

Secretion of abnormally colored perspiration.

or adhesive; soft and sticky; glutinous; damp and adhesive, as if covered with a cold perspiration.