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o furnish with a cog or cogs. Cogged breath sound (Auscultation), a form of interrupted respiration, in which the interruptions are very even, three or four to each inspiration. Quain.

which can be drawn into the lungs in addition to the tidal air, by the deepest possible inspiration. -- Complemental males (Zoöl.), peculiar small males living parasitically on the ordinary hermaphrodite individuals of certain barnacles.

Belonging to, or of the nature of, a conspiration.

ortion of the muscles of the face. Swift. All the contortions of the sibyl, without the inspiration. Burke.

nd; crackling; rattling. Crepitant rale (Med.), a peculiar crackling sound audible with inspiration in pneumonia and other lung disease.

ng on, or affecting, the skin; as, a cutaneous disease; cutaneous absorption; cutaneous respiration.

state of being weak; weakness; feebleness; languor. The inconveniences of too strong a perspiration, which are debility, faintness, and sometimes sudden death. Arbuthnot.

Perspiration, or an increase of perspiration.

A medicine or agent which promotes perspiration.

Having the power to increase perspiration.

Pertaining to a diaphragm; as, diaphragmatic respiration; the diaphragmatic arteries and nerves.

Slightly increasing an insensible perspiration; mildly diaphoretic. -- n.

e lips of the king. Prov. xvi. 10. But not to one in this benighted age Is that diviner inspiration given. Gray.

inverted vessel, sometimes bell-shaped, in which men may descend and work under water, respiration being sustained by the compressed air at the top, by fresh air pumped in through a tube from above. -- Diving dress. See Submarine armor, under Submarine. -- Diving stone, a kind of jasper.

The act of breathing in; inspiration. [R.] The special and immediate suggestion, embreathement, and dictation of the Holy Ghost. W. Lee.

Inspiration; enthusiasm. [R.] "Religious entheasm." Byron.

Inspiration as if by a divine or superhuman power; ecstasy; hence, a conceit of divine possession and revelation, or of being directly subject to some divine impulse. Enthusiasm is founded neither on reason nor divine revelation, but rises from the conceits of a warmed or overweening imagination. Locke.…

To excrete; to throw off through the pores; as, fluids are excerned in perspiration. [R.] Bacon.

To rise or be given off, as vapor; to pass off, or vanish. Their inspiration exhaled in elegies. Prescott.

process of breathing out, or forcing air from the lungs through the nose or mouth; as, respiration consists of inspiration and expiration; -- opposed to Ant: inspiration.