Hypertext Webster Gateway: "exhalation"

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) 1.7 (wn)

exhalation
n : the act of expelling air from the lungs [syn: {expiration},
{breathing out}]

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