Definition of breathing

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Breathing (n.) Also, in a wider sense, the sound caused by the friction of the outgoing breath in the throat, mouth, etc., when the glottis is wide open; aspiration; the sound expressed by the letter h..

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Spirit :: Spirit (n.) A rough breathing; an aspirate, as the letter h; also, a mark to denote aspiration; a breathing..
Tracheate :: Tracheate (a.) Breathing by means of tracheae; of or pertaining to the Tracheata.
Breathing :: Breathing (n.) A mark to indicate aspiration or its absence. See Rough breathing, Smooth breathing, below..
Thrill :: Thrill (v. t.) A breathing place or hole; a nostril, as of a bird..
Hypernoea :: Hypernoea (n.) Abnormal breathing, due to slightly deficient arterialization of the blood; -- in distinction from eupnoea. See Eupnoea, and Dispnoea..
Igloo :: Igloo (n.) A cavity, or excavation, made in the snow by a seal, over its breathing hole in the ice..
Heaves :: Heaves (n.) A disease of horses, characterized by difficult breathing, with heaving of the flank, wheezing, flatulency, and a peculiar cough; broken wind..
Pipe :: Pipe (n.) A passageway for the air in speaking and breathing; the windpipe, or one of its divisions..
Aspirate :: Aspirate (n.) A sound consisting of, or characterized by, a breath like the sound of h; the breathing h or a character representing such a sound; an aspirated sound..
Pantingly :: Pantingly (adv.) With palpitation or rapid breathing.
Wind-broken :: Wind-broken (a.) Having the power of breathing impaired by the rupture, dilatation, or running together of air cells of the lungs, so that while the inspiration is by one effort, the expiration is by two; affected with pulmonary emphysema or with heaves; -- said of a horse..
Suspiral :: Suspiral (n.) A breathing hole; a vent or ventiduct.
Pulmonata :: Pulmonata (n. pl.) An extensive division, or sub-class, of hermaphrodite gastropods, in which the mantle cavity is modified into an air-breathing organ, as in Helix, or land snails, Limax, or garden slugs, and many pond snails, as Limnaea and Planorbis..
Prosopulmonata :: Prosopulmonata (n. pl.) A division of pulmonate mollusks having the breathing organ situated on the neck, as in the common snail..
Insufflation :: Insufflation (n.) The act of breathing on or into anythin.
Spire :: Spiration (n.) The act of breathing.
Groan :: Groan (v. i.) To give forth a low, moaning sound in breathing; to utter a groan, as in pain, in sorrow, or in derision; to moan..
Ecstasy :: Ecstasy (n.) A state which consists in total suspension of sensibility, of voluntary motion, and largely of mental power. The body is erect and inflexible; the pulsation and breathing are not affected..
Breathe :: Breathe (v. t.) To suffer to take breath, or recover the natural breathing; to rest; as, to breathe a horse..
Tracheobranchia :: Tracheobranchia (n.) One of the gill-like breathing organs of certain aquatic insect larvae. They contain tracheal tubes somewhat similar to those of other insects.
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