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BREEZE, n. A genus of flies or insects, technically called Tabanus. There are many species,but the most noted is the bovinus, great horsefly, whose mouth is armed with two hooks which penetrate the skin of an animal, while with a proboscis, like a sting, it sucks the blood.
BREEZE, n. [Gr. to boil.]
BREEZE, v.i. To blow gently; a word common among seamen.
A light, gentle wind; a fresh,
soft-blowing wind.
Into a gradual calm the breezes sink. An excited or ruffed state of feeling; a flurry
of excitement; a disturbance; a quarrel; as, the discovery produced a
breeze.
[Colloq.]
Land breeze, a wind blowing from the land, generally at night. -- Sea breeze, a breeze or wind blowing, generally in the daytime, from the sea. Refuse left in the
process of making coke or burning charcoal.
Refuse coal, coal ashes,
and cinders, used in the burning of bricks.
To blow gently.
[R.]
J. Barlow.
To breeze up (Naut.), to blow with increasing freshness. | ||||||||