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To stun. [Obs.] "Breathless and astunned." Somerville.

An element of speech entirely destitute of vocality, or produced by the breath alone; a nonvocal or surd consonant; a breathing. Rush.

A genus of air-breathing mollusks mostly found near the sea, where the water is brackish

. The ancients alleged that its hissing would drive away all other serpents, and that its breath, and even its look, was fatal. See Cockatrice. Make me not sighted like the basilisk. Shak.

Reduced; lowered; restrained; as, to speak with bated breath. Macaulay.

ng new properties or qualities, additional matter, or a new character. The Lord God . . . breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul. Gen. ii. 7. That error now which is become my crime. Milton.

To fill with lies. [Obs.] "The breath of slander doth belie all corners of the world." Shak.

To cause to swell out; to fill. [R.] Your breath of full consent bellied his sails. Shak.

dder growing on the root of the tongue of a horse, against the windpipe, and stopping the breath.

The sound made by blowing a wind instrument; strictly, the sound produces at one breath. One blast upon his bugle horn Were worth a thousand men. Sir W. Scott. The blast of triumph o'er thy grave. Bryant.

To breathe hard or quick; to pant; to puff. Here is Mistress Page at the door, sweating and blowing. Shak.

feet long, through which an arrow or other projectile may be impelled by the force of the breath. It is a weapon much used by certain Indians of America and the West Indies; -- called also blowpipe, and blowtube. See Sumpitan.

A hole in the ice to which whales, seals, etc., come to breathe.

Out of breath; tired; exhausted. "Their horses much blown." Sir W. Scott.

A gill; a respiratory organ for breathing the air contained in water, such as many aquatic and semiaquatic animals have.

Those Gastropoda that breathe by branchiæ, including the Prosobranchiata and Opisthobranchiata.

Having short breath or disordered respiration, as a horse.

A silvered aromatic pill, used to correct the odor of the breath.

To turn in flight; -- said of a hawk. [Obs.] Nares. He makes his stoop; but wanting breath, is forced To cancelier. Massinger.

carbon dioxide. It is a colorless, heavy, irrespirable gas, extinguishing flame, and when breathed destroys life. It can be reduced to a liquid and solid form by intense pressure. It is produced in the fermentation of liquors, and by the combustion and decomposition of organic substances, or other substances containing…