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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.

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.

Breeze n.

Refuse left in the process of making coke or burning charcoal.

(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.

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Etymology of 'Breeze'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Breeze" Quotes from Famous Books

... near me except my truck and spade and the grave of Brimstone Billy, now as lonely as before. I turned towards the water. On the opposite bank was the cemetery, with the tomb of the holy women, the thornbush with its rags stirring in the morning breeze, and the broken mud wall. The ruined chapel was there, too, not a stone shaken from its crumbling walls, not a sign to shew that it and its precinct were less rooted in their place than ...

— The Miraculous Revenge - Little Blue Book #215 • Bernard Shaw

... very close against hers, the scent of the heliotrope had grown on the sudden stronger and more piercingly sweet, perhaps because the sun had vanished behind the distant line of trees and a little breeze from the oncoming night was blowing across the flower-beds towards them. The quick-gathering twilight seemed to be shutting them in; people passed along the path, young sweethearting couples too happy in each other to notice anyone else. The tumult ...

— To Love • Margaret Peterson

... The morning breeze was light but steady. The Merry Andrew was a sweetly sailing boat and Lawford handled her to the open admiration of Betty Gallup. The old woman's comment would have put suspicion in Louise's mind had the girl not been utterly blind ...

— Cap'n Abe, Storekeeper • James A. Cooper

... brazen horns and the throbbing of drums were borne to him upon the kind breeze, reminding him that the world was made for joy, and that the Barzee and Potter Dog and Pony Show was exhibiting in a banlieue not far away. So, thither he bent his steps—the plentiful funds in his pocket burning hot holes all the way. He had paid twenty-two cents for the accordion, ...

— Penrod • Booth Tarkington

... that at first I wasn't sure I was hearing those noises. It was in a park near the nuclear propulsion center—a cool, green spot, with the leaves all telling each other to hush, be quiet, and the soft breeze stirring them up again. I had known precisely such a secluded little green sanctuary just over the hill from Mr. Riordan's farm when I ...

— Houlihan's Equation • Walt Sheldon

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