exhalation : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: exhalation	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for exhalation
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
exhalation n exhaled breath Synonym(s): halitus, exhalation the act of expelling air from the lungs Synonym(s): exhalation, expiration, breathing out
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Exhalation \Ex`hala"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.