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Capable of being breathed; respirable. [Obs.] Nash.

Capable of being inspired or drawn into the lungs; inhalable; respirable; admitting inspiration. Harvey.

Unfit for respiration; not having the qualities necessary to support animal life; as, irrespirable air.

Capable of being perspired. Sir T. Browne.

Suitable for being breathed; adapted for respiration. -- Re*spir"a*ble*ness, n.

Capable of being transpired, or of transpiring.

An irrespirable gas, remaining after an explosion of fire damp in mines; choke damp. See Carbonic acid.

from interruption of respiration, as in suffocation or drowning, or the inhalation of irrespirable gases.

rbon and oxygen, CO2, more correctly called carbon dioxide. It is a colorless, heavy, irrespirable gas, extinguishing flame, and when breathed destroys life. It can be reduced to a liquid and solid form by intense pressure. It is produced in the fermentation of liquors, and by the combustion and decomposition of organi…

Any irrespirable aëriform fluid.

The quality or state of being perspirable.

The quality or state of being respirable; respirableness.

To stop the breath of by crowding something into the windpipe, or introducing an irrespirable substance into the lungs; to choke; to suffocate; to cause the death of by such means; as, to stifle one with smoke or dust. Stifled with kisses, a sweet death he dies. Dryden. I took my leave, being half stifled with the clos…

To pass, as perspirable matter does, through the pores or interstices of textures; as, liquor may transude through leather or wood.

Producing vapors; hence, windy; flatulent. Bacon. The food which is most vaporous and perspirable is the most easily digested. Arbuthnot.