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rming Word." Coleridge. Let others better mold the running mass Of metals, and inform the breathing brass. Dryden. Breath informs this fleeting frame. Prior. Breathes in our soul,informs our mortal part. Pope.

Any air-breathing arthropod, as a spider or scorpion.

The act of inspiring or breathing in; breath; specif. (Physiol.), the drawing of air into the lungs, accomplished in mammals by elevation of the chest walls and flattening of the diaphragm; -- the opposite of expiration.

every holt and health The tender crops. Chaucer. Descend, ye Nine, descend and sing, The breathing instruments inspire. Pope.

The act of breathing on or into anything; especially:

the larynx and the upper part of the trachea, -- a frequent operation for obstruction to breathing.

Smooth; as, the lene breathing.

A genus of fresh-water air-breathing mollusks, abundant in ponds and streams; -- called also pond snail. [Written also Lymnæa.]

A genus of airbreathing mollusks, including the common garden slugs. They have a small rudimentary shell. The breathing pore is on the right side of the neck. Several species are troublesome in gardens. See Slug.

Having lungs, or breathing organs similar to lungs.

A class of air-breathing Arthropoda; -- called also Protracheata, and Onychophora.

To swim under water; -- said of air-breathing creatures.

A division of gastropod Mollusca, in which the breathing organs are usually situated behind the heart. It includes the tectibranchs and nudibranchs.

Having the pulmonary sac situated posteriorly; -- said of certain air-breathing Mollusca.

ch respiration can be performed only in an erect posture; by extension, any difficulty of breathing.

A quick breathing; a catching of the breath; a gasp. Drayton.

With palpitation or rapid breathing. Shak.

Having phthisis, or some symptom of it, as difficulty in breathing.

A passageway for the air in speaking and breathing; the windpipe, or one of its divisions.

Any fresh-water air-breathing mollusk belonging to Planorbis and other allied genera, having shells of a discoidal form.