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

Breathing or exhaling incense. "Incense-breathing morn." Gray.

A blowing or breathing on; inspiration.

in the visceral cavity of many fishes. It originates in the same way as the lungs of air-breathing vertebrates, and in the adult may retain a tubular connection with the pharynx or esophagus.

cking out a little air, the bottom springs into a concave form with a smart crack; and by breathing or blowing gently into the orifice, the bottom, with a like noise, springs into its former convex form.

Short and rapid breathing; a panting; asthma. Glanvill.

Destitute of a siphon or breathing tube; -- said of many bivalve shells. -- n.

The rough breathing; a mark placed over an initial vowel sound or over h before it; thus hws, pronounced h, hrj'twr, pronounced hra\'b6t.

To pronounce with a breathing, an aspirate, or an h sound; as, we aspirate the words horse and house; to aspirate a vowel or a liquid consonant.

rong emission of breath; an aspirated sound. If aspiration be defined to be an impetus of breathing. Wilkins.

Of or pertaining to breathing; suited to the inhaling of air

A disease, characterized by difficulty of breathing (due to a spasmodic contraction of the bronchi), recurring at intervals, accompanied with a wheezing sound, a sense of constriction in the chest, a cough, and expectoration.

y 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

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

The act of breathing naturally or freely; the power or capacity to breathe freely; as, I am out of breath.

To inject by breathing; to infuse; -- with into. Able to breathe life into a stone. Shak. And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life. Gen. ii. 7.

Not breathing; holding the breath, on account of fear, expectation, or intense interest; attended with a holding of the breath; as, breathless attention. But breathless, as we grow when feeling most. Byron.

been felt. Hawthorne. The man who breathes most healthilly is least conscious of his own breathing. De Quincey.

f the larynx or trachea, accompanied by a hoarse, ringing cough and stridulous, difficult breathing; esp., such an affection when associated with the development of a false membrane in the air passages (also called membranous croup). See False croup, under False, and Diphtheria.