breeze

Definitions

1. 1.A light, gentle wind; a fresh, soft-blowing wind. Into a gradual calm the breezes sink. Wordsworth.
2. 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. 3.Refuse left in the process of making coke or burning charcoal.
4. 4.(Brickmaking) Refuse coal, coal ashes, and cinders, used in the burning of bricks.
5. 5.To blow gently. [R.] J. Barlow. To breeze up (Naut.), to blow with increasing freshness.

Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).

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