What does "breeze" mean?
Breeze: A light, gentle wind; a fresh, soft-blowing wind. Into a gradual calm the breezes sink. Wordsworth.
Additional senses
- 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.
- 3.Refuse left in the process of making coke or burning charcoal.
- 4.(Brickmaking) Refuse coal, coal ashes, and cinders, used in the burning of bricks.
- 5.To blow gently. [R.] J. Barlow. To breeze up (Naut.), to blow with increasing freshness.
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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