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s exhaled, or which rises in the form of vapor, fume, or steam; effluvium; emanation; as, exhalations from the earth or flowers, decaying matter, etc. Ye mists and exhalations, that now rise From hill or steaming lake. Milton.

Any subtile, invisible emanation, effluvium, or exhalation from a substance, as the aroma of flowers, the odor of the blood, a supposed fertilizing emanation from the pollen of flowers, etc.

Fragrance; exhalation; odor; perfume. Tennison. The breath of flowers. Bacon.

That which serves as a medium or agency to transmit disease; a virus produced by, or exhalation proceeding from, a diseased person, and capable of reproducing the disease.

Communicable by contact, by a virus, or by a bodily exhalation; catching; as, a contagious disease.

Cross; thick; dense; coarse; not elaborated or refined. "Crass and fumid exhalations." Sir. T. Browne. "Crass ignorance" Cudworth.

A luminous exhalation from marshy grounds.

A luminous exhalation from marshy grounds, seeming to move through the air as a winged serpent.

Subtile or invisible emanation; exhalation perceived by the sense of smell; especially, noisome or noxious exhalation; as, the effluvium from diseased or putrefying bodies, or from ill drainage.

A process of extracting perfumes by exposing absorbents, as fixed oils or fats, to the exhalations of the flowers. It is used for plants whose volatile oils are too delicate to be separated by distillation.

Exhalation. [Obs.]

Exhalation. [R.]

Emission of volatile matter; exhalation. The true cause of cold is an expiration from the globe of the earth. Bacon.

Framework; structure; edifice; building. Anon out of the earth a fabric huge Rose like an exhalation. Milton.

Filled or abounding with fog, or watery exhalations; misty; as, a foggy atmosphere; a foggy morning. Shak.

Exhalation; volatile matter (esp. noxious vapor or smoke) ascending in a dense body; smoke; vapor; reek; as, the fumes of tobacco. The fumes of new shorn hay. T. Warton. The fumes of undigested wine. Dryden.

r infected with some noxious substance capable of engendering disease; esp., an unhealthy exhalation from certain soils, as marshy or wet lands, producing fevers; miasma.

Tending to destroy life; poisonous; noxious; as, mephitic exhalations; mephitic regions.

Noxious, pestilential, or foul exhalations from decomposing substances, filth, or other source.

Abounding, or infecting, with plagues; pestilential; as, plagueful exhalations.