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To respire; to inhale and exhale air; hence;, to live. "I am in health, I breathe." Shak. Breathes there a man with soul so dead Sir W. Scott.

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

Trousers; pantaloons. [Colloq.] Breeches buoy, in the life-saving service, a pair of canvas breeches depending from an annular or beltlike life buoy which is usually of cork. This contrivance, inclosing the person to be rescued, is hung by short ropes from a block which runs upon the hawser stretched from the ship to t…

Motionless; destitute of breezes. A stagnant, breezeless air becalms my soul. Shenstone.

Characterized by, or having, breezes; airy. "A breezy day in May." Coleridge. 'Mid lawns and shades by breezy rivulets fanned. Wordsworth.

In French games, a pair royal, or triplet.

In French games, a double pair royal.

In French games, a pair royal composed of 2 cards in the hand and the card turned.

e; sharp; severe; cruel. [Obs.] Spenser. From the septentrion cold, in the breme freezing air. Drayton.

A notched board to which the treads and risers of the steps of wooden stairs are fastened.

ang living in mountain retreats; a highwayman; a freebooter. Giving them not a little the air of brigands or banditti. Jeffery.

An oily composition used to make the hair glossy.

The hair on the eyelids of a horse. Bailey.

A rough-haired East Indian variety of the greyhound.

A short, stiff, coarse hair, as on the back of swine.

THick set with bristles, or with hairs resembling bristles; rough. The leaves of the black mulberry are somewhat bristly. Bacon.

Free; unrestrained; unconfined. As broad and general as the casing air. Shak.

Having a broken back; as, a broken-backed chair.

Having the spirits depressed or crushed by grief or despair. She left her husband almost broken-hearted. Macaulay.

ing aorta, accompanying the bronchia in all their ramifications. -- Bronchial cells, the air cells terminating the bronchia. -- Bronchial glands, glands whose functions are unknown, seated along the bronchia. -- Bronchial membrane, the mucous membrane lining the bronchia. -- Bronchial tube, the bronchi, or the bron…