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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Exhalation \Ex'ha*la"tion\, noun [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. [archaic] [1913 Webster +PJC]
I shall fall Like a bright exhalation in the evening. --Shak.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
exhalation
noun
1: exhaled breath [syn: {halitus}]
2: the act of expelling air from the lungs [syn: {expiration}, {breathing out}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
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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