exhalation
exhalation is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 2 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.That which is exhaled, or which rises in the form of vapor, fume, or steam; effluvium; emanation; as, exhalations from the earth or flowers, decaying matter, etc. Ye mists and exhalations, that now rise From hill or steaming lake. Milton.
- 2.A bright phenomenon; a meteor. I shall fall Like a bright exhalation in the evening. Shak.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- act
- acute
- animal
- bay
- bloodhound
- boil
- boiling
- bubble
- bubbly
- chloride
- cohobate
- cohobation
- cupellation
- distill
- distillation
- effervesce
- effervescence
- effervescent
- effluvium
- emanation
- emit
- essence
- evaporable
- evaporate
- evaporation
- exhale
- finestill
- foul
- fragrance
- fume
- fumigate
- fumigation
- gaseous
- gasification
- give
- graveolent
- have
- hound
- inhale
- mister
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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