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Breeze
Open directlyWebster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 1 of 3
Part of speech: noun (n.)
1. A light, gentle wind; a fresh, soft-blowing wind. Into a gradual calm the breezes sink. Wordsworth.
2. An excited or ruffed state of feeling; a flurry of excitement; a disturbance; a quarrel; as, the discovery produced a breeze. [Colloq.] Land breeze, a wind blowing from the land, generally at night. -- Sea breeze, a breeze or wind blowing, generally in the daytime, from the sea.
Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 2 of 3
Part of speech: noun (n.)
1. Refuse left in the process of making coke or burning charcoal.
2. Refuse coal, coal ashes, and cinders, used in the burning of bricks.
Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 3 of 3
Part of speech: verb (v.)
To blow gently. [R.] J. Barlow. To breeze up (Naut.), to blow with increasing freshness.