Free TranslationFree Translation
Synonyms, antonyms, pronunciation

  Home
English Dictionary      examples: 'day', 'get rid of', 'New York Bay'




Breeze   /briz/   Listen
noun
Breeze fly, Breeze  n.  (Written also breese and brize)  (Zool.) A fly of various species, of the family Tabanidae, noted for buzzing about animals, and tormenting them by sucking their blood; called also horsefly, and gadfly. They are among the largest of two-winged or dipterous insects. The name is also given to different species of botflies.



Breeze  n.  
1.
A light, gentle wind; a fresh, soft-blowing wind. "Into a gradual calm the breezes sink."
2.
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.



Breeze  n.  
1.
Refuse left in the process of making coke or burning charcoal.
2.
(Brickmaking) Refuse coal, coal ashes, and cinders, used in the burning of bricks.



verb
Breeze  v. i.  To blow gently. (R.)
To breeze up (Naut.), to blow with increasing freshness.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








Advanced search
     Find words:
Starting with
Ending with
Containing
Matching a pattern  

Synonyms
Antonyms
Quotes
Words linked to  

only single words



Share |





"Breeze" Quotes from Famous Books



... birth of a southern summer day, and everything was fresh and pure, untainted by the burning, enervating heat which was soon to dry up the sweetness from the earth, and the freshness from the slightly moving breeze. Away on the brown hills, fading into a transparent veil of blue, the bright dresses of the peasant women stooping at their toil, the purple glory of the vineyards, and the deep, quiet green of the olive groves—all these simple ...
— The New Tenant • E. Phillips Oppenheim

... shade Of solemn oaks, that tuft the swelling mounts Thrown graceful round by Nature's careless hand, And pensive listen to the various voice Of rural peace; the herds, the flocks, the birds, The hollow-whispering breeze, the 'plaint of rills, That, purling down amid the twisted roots Which creep around their dewy murmurs shake ...
— The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction - Vol. 14, Issue 382, July 25, 1829 • Various

... smallest continent but sixth-largest country; population concentrated along the eastern and southeastern coasts; the invigorating sea breeze known as the "Fremantle Doctor" affects the city of Perth on the west coast, and is one of the most consistent winds in ...
— The 2007 CIA World Factbook • United States

... was to see the dainty and fastidious Lepidus, whom in a banquet a ray of daylight seemed to blind—whom in the bath a breeze of air seemed to blast—in whom Nature seemed twisted and perverted from every natural impulse, and curdled into one dubious thing of effeminacy and art—a singular thing was it to see this Lepidus, now all eagerness, ...
— The Last Days of Pompeii • Edward George Bulwer-Lytton

... There was a most able discourse from friend Broomall that day, but I heard so little of it I have scarce the right to criticise some of his comments. The windows were all open, and the sound of the breeze that flapped the casement and the far-away lowing of a cow were very pleasant—indeed, almost grievingly pleasant. And butterflies came in and out, and were bright and soothing. Friend Hicks was soothed and slept profoundly all the ...
— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. October, 1878. • Various


More quotes...



Copyright © 2025 e-Free Translation.com