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Relief from toil or suffering: rest. [Obs.] Till the day Appear of respiration to the just And vengeance to the wicked. Milton.

Of or pertaining to respiration; as, respirational difficulties.

A group of annelids, so called because the species composing it have no special organs of respiration.

To expose to the chemical action of air; to oxygenate (the blood) by respiration; to arterialize. Aërated bread, bread raised by charging dough with carbonic acid gas, instead of generating the gas in the dough by fermentation.

A change produced in the blood by exposure to the air in respiration; oxygenation of the blood in respiration; arterialization.

ed, and giving a sound like that produced by blowing into an empty decanter; as, amphoric respiration or resonance.

Relating to respiration.

ach for digestion; by giving carbonic acid to the air and taking oxygen in the process of respiration; and by increasing in motive power or active aggressive force with progress to maturity.

Apparent death, or suspended animation; the condition which results from interruption of respiration, as in suffocation or drowning, or the inhalation of irrespirable gases.

The air inhaled and exhaled in respiration, air which, in the process of respiration, has parted with oxygen and has received carbonic acid, aqueous vapor, warmth, etc. Melted as breath into the wind. Shak.

To inhale and exhale in the process of respiration; to respire. To view the light of heaven, and breathe the vital air. Dryden.

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

Having short breath or disordered respiration, as a horse.

ution of heat; to consume; to oxidize; as, a man burns a certain amount of carbon at each respiration; to burn iron in oxygen. To burn, To burn together, as two surfaces of metal (Engin.), to fuse and unite them by pouring over them a quantity of the same metal in a liquid state. -- To burn a bowl (Game of Bowls), to…

interspaces which may be distended with blood, as in the penis or clitoris. -- Cavernous respiration, a peculiar respiratory sound andible on auscultation, when the bronchial tubes communicate with morbid cavities in the lungs.

tic affection of the muscles of the breast and fore legs of a horse, affecting motion and respiration.

To 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.

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

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

ow 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.