BREATH, n. breth.
1. The air inhaled and expelled in the respiration of animals.
2. Life.
No man has more contempt than I of breath.
3. The state or power of breathing freely opposed to a state of exhaustion from violent action as, I am out of breath I am scarce in breath.
4. Respite pause time to breathe as,let me take breath give me some breath.
5. Breeze aid in gentle motion.
Calm and unruffled as a summer's sea,
When not a breath of wind flies o'er its surface.
6. A single respiration as, he swears at every breath.
7. An instant the time of a single respiration a single act.
He smiles and he frowns in a breath.
8. A word.
A breath can make them, as a breath has made.