meaning of breeze
1. Alt. of Breeze fly
2. 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.
3. A light, gentle wind; a fresh, soft-blowing wind.
4. An excited or ruffed state of feeling; a flurry of excitement; a disturbance; a quarrel; as, the discovery produced a breeze.
5. Refuse left in the process of making coke or burning charcoal.
6. Refuse coal, coal ashes, and cinders, used in the burning of bricks.
7. To blow gently.
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breeze | breezeless |
