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exhalation |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Exhalation \Ex`ha*la"tion\, n. [L. exhalatio: cf F. exhalaison exhalation.] 1. The act or process of exhaling, or sending forth in the form of steam or vapor; evaporation. 2. That which is 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. 3. A bright phenomenon; a meteor. I shall fall Like a bright exhalation in the evening. --Shak. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: exhalation n : the act of inhaling [syn: {expiration}, {breathing out}]
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