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adv. [ Pref. a- + weather. ] (Naut.) On the weather side, or toward the wind; in the direction from which the wind blows; -- opposed to alee; as, helm aweather! Totten. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ AS. beðian to foment. ] To bathe; also, to dry or heat, as unseasoned wood. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

prep. [ OE. benethe, bineoðen, AS. beneoðan, benyðan; pref. be- + neoðan, nyðan, downward, beneath, akin to E. nether. See Nether. ] 1. Lower in place, with something directly over or on; under; underneath; hence, at the foot of. “Beneath the mount.” Ex. xxxii. 19. [ 1913 Webster ]

Beneath a rude and nameless stone he lies. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Under, in relation to something that is superior, or that oppresses or burdens. [ 1913 Webster ]

Our country sinks beneath the yoke. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Lower in rank, dignity, or excellence than; as, brutes are beneath man; man is beneath angels in the scale of beings. Hence: Unworthy of; unbecoming. [ 1913 Webster ]

He will do nothing that is beneath his high station. Atterbury. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. 1. In a lower place; underneath. [ 1913 Webster ]

The earth you take from beneath will be barren. Mortimer. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Below, as opposed to heaven, or to any superior region or position; as, in earth beneath. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Bequeathed p. pr. & vb. n. Bequeathing. ] [ OE. biquethen, AS. becweðan to say, affirm, bequeath; pref. be- + cweðan to say, speak. See Quoth. ] 1. To give or leave by will; to give by testament; -- said especially of personal property. [ 1913 Webster ]

My heritage, which my dead father did bequeath to me. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To hand down; to transmit. [ 1913 Webster ]

To bequeath posterity somewhat to remember it. Glanvill. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To give; to offer; to commit. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

To whom, with all submission, on my knee
I do bequeath my faithful services
And true subjection everlastingly. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- To Bequeath, Devise. Both these words denote the giving or disposing of property by will. Devise, in legal usage, is property used to denote a gift by will of real property, and he to whom it is given is called the devisee. Bequeath is properly applied to a gift by will or legacy; i. e., of personal property; the gift is called a legacy, and he who receives it is called a legatee. In popular usage the word bequeath is sometimes enlarged so as to embrace devise; and it is sometimes so construed by courts. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Capable of being bequeathed. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of bequeathing; bequeathment; bequest. Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of bequeathing, or the state of being bequeathed; a bequest. [ 1913 Webster ]

A pestilence which ravaged Europe and Asia in the fourteenth century. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. breth, breeth, AS. br&aemacr_;ð odor, scent, breath; cf. OHG. brādam steam, vapor, breath, G. brodem, and possibly E. Brawn, and Breed. ] 1. The air inhaled and exhaled in respiration; air which, in the process of respiration, has parted with oxygen and has received carbonic acid, aqueous vapor, warmth, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

Melted as breath into the wind. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The act of breathing naturally or freely; the power or capacity to breathe freely; as, I am out of breath. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The power of respiration, and hence, life. Hood. [ 1913 Webster ]

Thou takest away their breath, they die. Ps. civ. 29. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Time to breathe; respite; pause. [ 1913 Webster ]

Give me some breath, some little pause. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. A single respiration, or the time of making it; a single act; an instant. [ 1913 Webster ]

He smiles and he frowns in a breath. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. Fig.: That which gives or strengthens life. [ 1913 Webster ]

The earthquake voice of victory,
To thee the breath of life. Byron. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. A single word; the slightest effort; a trifle. [ 1913 Webster ]

A breath can make them, as a breath has made. Goldsmith. [ 1913 Webster ]

8. A very slight breeze; air in gentle motion. [ 1913 Webster ]

Calm and unruffled as a summer's sea,
when not a breath of wind flies o'er its surface. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

9. Fragrance; exhalation; odor; perfume. Tennison. [ 1913 Webster ]

The breath of flowers. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

10. Gentle exercise, causing a quicker respiration. [ 1913 Webster ]

An after dinner's breath. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Out of breath, breathless, exhausted; breathing with difficulty. --
Under one's breath, in low tones. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Such as can be breathed. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. State of being breathable. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. to test the alcohol content of someone's blood by means of a breathalyzer.
Syn. -- breathalyse. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ a Trademark. ]a device that measures alcohol content of a person's breath.
Syn. -- breathalyser, breath analyzer. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Breathed p. pr. & vb. n. Breathing. ] [ From Breath. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. To respire; to inhale and exhale air; hence;, to live. “I am in health, I breathe.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Breathes there a man with soul so dead
Who never to himself hath said,
This is my own, my native land! Sir W. Scott [ The Lay of the Last Minstrel ]. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

2. To take breath; to rest from action. [ 1913 Webster ]

Well! breathe awhile, and then to it again! Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To pass like breath; noiselessly or gently; to exhale; to emanate; to blow gently. [ 1913 Webster ]

The air breathes upon us here most sweetly. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

There breathes a living fragrance from the shore. Byron. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. 1. To inhale and exhale in the process of respiration; to respire. [ 1913 Webster ]

To view the light of heaven, and breathe the vital air. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To inject by breathing; to infuse; -- with into. [ 1913 Webster ]

Able to breathe life into a stone. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life. Gen. ii. 7. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To emit or utter by the breath; to utter softly; to whisper; as, to breathe a vow. [ 1913 Webster ]

He softly breathed thy name. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

Or let the church, our mother, breathe her curse,
A mother's curse, on her revolting son. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To exhale; to emit, as breath; as, the flowers breathe odors or perfumes. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. To express; to manifest; to give forth. [ 1913 Webster ]

Others articles breathe the same severe spirit. Milner. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. To act upon by the breath; to cause to sound by breathing. “They breathe the flute.” Prior. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. To promote free respiration in; to exercise. [ 1913 Webster ]

And every man should beat thee. I think thou wast created for men to breathe themselves upon thee. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

8. To suffer to take breath, or recover the natural breathing; to rest; as, to breathe a horse. [ 1913 Webster ]

A moment breathed his panting steed. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

9. To put out of breath; to exhaust. [ 1913 Webster ]

Mr. Tulkinghorn arrives in his turret room, a little breathed by the journey up. Dickens. [ 1913 Webster ]

10. (Phonetics) To utter without vocality, as the nonvocal consonants. [ 1913 Webster ]

The same sound may be pronounces either breathed, voiced, or whispered. H. Sweet. [ 1913 Webster ]

Breathed elements, being already voiceless, remain unchanged [ in whispering ]. H. Sweet. [ 1913 Webster ]

To breathe again, to take breath; to feel a sense of relief, as from danger, responsibility, or press of business. --
To breathe one's last, to die; to expire. --
To breathe a vein, to open a vein; to let blood. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. uttered without voice.
Syn. -- voiceless. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. having breath or breath as specified; usually used in combination; as, sweet-breathed. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. One who breathes. Hence: (a) One who lives. (b) One who utters. (c) One who animates or inspires. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That which puts one out of breath, as violent exercise. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

3. a pause to catch one's breath, or for some other form of rest or refreshment; -- often used in the phrase
to take a breather, i.e. to pause for refreshment. [ Colloq. ] [ PJC ]

4. a vent in a container to allow equalization of internal and external pressure. [ PJC ]

5. an air intake pipe to provide air to machinery or people submerged or otherwise sealed off from the outside. [ PJC ]

a. Full of breath; full of odor; fragrant. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. Respiration; the act of inhaling and exhaling air. [ 1913 Webster ]

Subject to a difficulty of breathing. Melmoth. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Air in gentle motion. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Any gentle influence or operation; inspiration; as, the breathings of the Spirit. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Aspiration; secret prayer. “Earnest desires and breathings after that blessed state.” Tillotson. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. Exercising; promotion of respiration. [ 1913 Webster ]

Here is a lady that wants breathing too;
And I have heard, you knights of Tyre
Are excellent in making ladies trip. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. Utterance; communication or publicity by words. [ 1913 Webster ]

I am sorry to give breathing to my purpose. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. Breathing place; vent. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

8. Stop; pause; delay. [ 1913 Webster ]

You shake the head at so long a breathing. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

9. Also, in a wider sense, the sound caused by the friction of the outgoing breath in the throat, mouth, etc., when the glottis is wide open; aspiration; the sound expressed by the letter h. [ 1913 Webster ]

10. (Gr. Gram.) A mark to indicate aspiration or its absence. See Rough breathing, Smooth breathing, below. [ 1913 Webster ]

Breathing place. (a) A pause. “That cæsura, or breathing place, in the midst of the verse.” Sir P. Sidney. (b) A vent. --
Breathing time, pause; relaxation. Bp. Hall. --
Breathing while, time sufficient for drawing breath; a short time. Shak. --
Rough breathing (spiritus asper) (&asper_;). See 2d Asper, n. --
Smooth breathing (spiritus lenis), a mark (') indicating the absence of the sound of h, as in 'ie`nai (ienai). [ 1913 Webster ]

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a. 1. Spent with labor or violent action; out of breath. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Not breathing; holding the breath, on account of fear, expectation, or intense interest; attended with a holding of the breath; as, breathless attention. [ 1913 Webster ]

But breathless, as we grow when feeling most. Byron. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Dead; as, a breathless body. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a breathless manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state of being breathless or out of breath. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a shrub (Spiraea prunifolia) having copious small white flowers in spring.
Syn. -- bridal wreath, Saint Peter's wreath, St. Peter's wreath. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ OE. deth, deað, AS. deáð; akin to OS. dōð, D. dood, G. tod, Icel. dauði, Sw. & Dan. död, Goth. dauþus; from a verb meaning to die. See Die, v. i., and cf. Dead. ] 1. The cessation of all vital phenomena without capability of resuscitation, either in animals or plants. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Local death is going on at all times and in all parts of the living body, in which individual cells and elements are being cast off and replaced by new; a process essential to life. General death is of two kinds; death of the body as a whole (somatic or systemic death), and death of the tissues. By the former is implied the absolute cessation of the functions of the brain, the circulatory and the respiratory organs; by the latter the entire disappearance of the vital actions of the ultimate structural constituents of the body. When death takes place, the body as a whole dies first, the death of the tissues sometimes not occurring until after a considerable interval. Huxley. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Total privation or loss; extinction; cessation; as, the death of memory. [ 1913 Webster ]

The death of a language can not be exactly compared with the death of a plant. J. Peile. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Manner of dying; act or state of passing from life. [ 1913 Webster ]

A death that I abhor. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Let me die the death of the righteous. Num. xxiii. 10. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Cause of loss of life. [ 1913 Webster ]

Swiftly flies the feathered death. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

He caught his death the last county sessions. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. Personified: The destroyer of life, -- conventionally represented as a skeleton with a scythe. [ 1913 Webster ]

Death! great proprietor of all. Young. [ 1913 Webster ]

And I looked, and behold a pale horse; and his name that sat on him was Death. Rev. vi. 8. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. Danger of death. “In deaths oft.” 2 Cor. xi. 23. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. Murder; murderous character. [ 1913 Webster ]

Not to suffer a man of death to live. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

8. (Theol.) Loss of spiritual life. [ 1913 Webster ]

To be carnally minded is death. Rom. viii. 6. [ 1913 Webster ]

9. Anything so dreadful as to be like death. [ 1913 Webster ]

It was death to them to think of entertaining such doctrines. Atterbury. [ 1913 Webster ]

And urged him, so that his soul was vexed unto death. Judg. xvi. 16. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Death is much used adjectively and as the first part of a compound, meaning, in general, of or pertaining to death, causing or presaging death; as, deathbed or death bed; deathblow or death blow, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

Black death. See Black death, in the Vocabulary. --
Civil death, the separation of a man from civil society, or the debarring him from the enjoyment of civil rights, as by banishment, attainder, abjuration of the realm, entering a monastery, etc. Blackstone. --
Death adder. (Zool.) (a) A kind of viper found in South Africa (Acanthophis tortor); -- so called from the virulence of its venom. (b) A venomous Australian snake of the family Elapidæ, of several species, as the Hoplocephalus superbus and Acanthopis antarctica. --
Death bell, a bell that announces a death. [ 1913 Webster ] The death bell thrice was heard to ring. Mickle. --
Death candle, a light like that of a candle, viewed by the superstitious as presaging death. --
Death damp, a cold sweat at the coming on of death. --
Death fire, a kind of ignis fatuus supposed to forebode death. [ 1913 Webster ] And round about in reel and rout,
The death fires danced at night. Coleridge. --
Death grapple, a grapple or struggle for life. --
Death in life, a condition but little removed from death; a living death. [ Poetic ] “Lay lingering out a five years' death in life.” Tennyson. --
Death rate, the relation or ratio of the number of deaths to the population. [ 1913 Webster ] At all ages the death rate is higher in towns than in rural districts. Darwin. --
Death rattle, a rattling or gurgling in the throat of a dying person. --
Death's door, the boundary of life; the partition dividing life from death. --
Death stroke, a stroke causing death. --
Death throe, the spasm of death. --
Death token, the signal of approaching death. --
Death warrant. (a) (Law) An order from the proper authority for the execution of a criminal. (b) That which puts an end to expectation, hope, or joy. --
Death wound. (a) A fatal wound or injury. (b) (Naut.) The springing of a fatal leak. --
Spiritual death (Scripture), the corruption and perversion of the soul by sin, with the loss of the favor of God. --
The gates of death, the grave. [ 1913 Webster ] Have the gates of death been opened unto thee? Job xxxviii. 17. --
The second death, condemnation to eternal separation from God. Rev. ii. 11. --
To be the death of, to be the cause of death to; to make die. “It was one who should be the death of both his parents.” Milton.

Syn. -- Death, Decease, Demise, Departure, Release. Death applies to the termination of every form of existence, both animal and vegetable; the other words only to the human race. Decease is the term used in law for the removal of a human being out of life in the ordinary course of nature. Demise was formerly confined to decease of princes, but is now sometimes used of distinguished men in general; as, the demise of Mr. Pitt. Departure and release are peculiarly terms of Christian affection and hope. A violent death is not usually called a decease. Departure implies a friendly taking leave of life. Release implies a deliverance from a life of suffering or sorrow. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The bed in which a person dies; hence, the closing hours of life of one who dies by sickness or the like; the last sickness. [ 1913 Webster ]

That often-quoted passage from Lord Hervey in which the Queen's deathbed is described. Thackeray. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) Tengmalm's or Richardson's owl (Nyctale Tengmalmi); -- so called from a superstition of the North American Indians that its note presages death. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A mortal or crushing blow; a stroke or event which kills or destroys. [ 1913 Webster ]

The deathblow of my hope. Byron. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Full of death or slaughter; murderous; destructive; bloody. [ 1913 Webster ]

These eyes behold
The deathful scene. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Liable to undergo death; mortal. [ 1913 Webster ]

The deathless gods and deathful earth. Chapman. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Appearance of death. Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A stroke or tolling of a bell, announcing a death; a knell{ 1 }. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Hence: (figuratively) A sign or harbinger of the end, death, or passing away of anything. [ PJC ]

a. Not subject to death, destruction, or extinction; immortal; undying; imperishable; as, deathless beings; deathless fame. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Resembling death. [ 1913 Webster ]

A deathlike slumber, and a dead repose. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Deadly. [ Obs. ] “Deathlike dragons.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being deathly; deadliness. Southey. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Deadly; fatal; mortal; destructive. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Deadly; as, deathly pale or sick. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a list of persons killed in a war or other disaster. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. A naked human skull as the emblem of death; the head of the conventional personification of death. [ 1913 Webster ]

I had rather be married to a death's-head with a bone in his mouth. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Death's-head moth (Zool.), a very large European moth (Acherontia atropos), so called from a figure resembling a human skull on the back of the thorax; -- called also death's-head sphinx. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The deadly nightshade (Atropa belladonna). Dr. Prior. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An executioner; a headsman or hangman. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Toward death. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. (Zool.) (a) A small beetle (Anobium tessellatum and other allied species). By forcibly striking its head against woodwork it makes a ticking sound, which is a call of the sexes to each other, but has been imagined by superstitious people to presage death. (b) A small wingless insect, of the family Psocidæ, which makes a similar but fainter sound; -- called also deathtick. [ 1913 Webster ]

She is always seeing apparitions and hearing deathwatches. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

I did not hear the dog howl, mother, or the deathwatch beat. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The guard set over a criminal before his execution. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To become unsheathed. [ Obs. ] Sir W. Raleigh. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. & adv. [ AS. eáðe. ] Easy or easily. [ Obs. ] “Eath to move with plaints.” Fairfax. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of breathing in; inspiration. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The special and immediate suggestion, embreathement, and dictation of the Holy Ghost. W. Lee. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. See Inwreathe. Shelton. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Made or done in pleasant weather, or in circumstances involving but little exposure or sacrifice; as, a fair-weather voyage. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Appearing only when times or circumstances are prosperous; as, a fair-weather friend. [ 1913 Webster ]

Fair-weather sailor, a make-believe or inexperienced sailor; -- the nautical equivalent of carpet knight. [ 1913 Webster ]