exhalation
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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.
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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.
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Ye mists and exhalations, that now rise
From hill or steaming lake. --Milton.
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3. A bright phenomenon; a meteor. [archaic]
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I shall fall
Like a bright exhalation in the evening. --Shak.
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from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
18 Moby Thesaurus words for "exhalation":
air, breath, effluvium, emanation, emission, evaporation, exhaust,
expiration, fog, fume, gas, mist, puff, respiration, steam,
suspiration, vapor, whiff
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