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A light, gentle wind; a fresh, soft-blowing wind. Into a gradual calm the breezes sink. Wordsworth.

A fly of various species, of the family Tabanidæ, noted for buzzing about animals, and tormenting them by sucking their blood; -- called also horsefly, and gadfly. They are among the largest of two- winged or dipterous insects. The name is also given to different species of botflies. [Written also breese and brize.]…

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

a strong breeze.

Air in motion; a light breeze; a gentle wind. Let vernal airs through trembling osiers play. Pope.

to the aspen, or resembling it; made of aspen wood. Nor aspen leaves confess the gentlest breeze. Gay.

alities of balm; odoriferous; aromatic; assuaging; soothing; refreshing; mild. "The balmy breeze." Tickell. Tired nature's sweet restorer, balmy sleep ! Young.

Charcoal powder; breeze.

A very slight breeze; air in gentle motion. Calm and unruffled as a summer's sea, when not a breath of wind flies o'er its surface. Addison.

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

The breeze fly. See Breeze. Shak.

Any large fly troublesome to cattle, as the gadflies and breeze flies.

To cause (a ship taken aback in a light breeze) so to turn or make a circuit as to recover, without bracing the yards, the same tack on which she had been sailing.

Making chilly or cold; depressing; discouraging; cold; distant; as, a chilling breeze; a chilling manner. -- Chill"ing"ly, adv.

A small breeze or horsefly. [North of Eng. & Scot.] Jamieson.

ied thy behavior. Shak. Jeffrey . . . had actually envied his friends their cool mountain breezes. Froude.

Evening. [Poetic] Winter oft, at eve resumes the breeze. Thomson.

A sudden and brief blast or gust; a light, temporary breeze; as, a flurry of wind.

sea, or brackish; fresh meat, in distinction from that which is pickled or salted. Fresh breeze (Naut.), a breeze between a moderate and a strong breeze; one blowinq about twenty miles an hour. -- Fresh gale, a gale blowing about forty-five miles an hour. -- Fresh way (Naut.), increased speed.

Promoting the good of any person; favorable; propitious; serviceable; as, a friendly breeze or gale. On the first friendly bank he throws him down. Addison.