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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