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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

... was the day... and the night for another story, Pale as a dream and shadowed with pencilled trees— Ghosts of the stars came by who had sought for glory, Whispered to us of peace in the plaintive breeze, Whispered of old dead faiths that the day had shattered, Youth the penny that bought delight of the moon; That was the urge that we knew and the language that mattered That was the debt that we paid ...

— This Side of Paradise • F. Scott Fitzgerald

... the other nations by declaring that for fineness of heart and thought, and deed, the world must look to the land "whose wide and well-nigh boundless prairies were blossoming with the buds of truth fanned by the breeze of liberty and fertilized by the aspirations of a God-fearing and a God-led population. What is the hope of the world, I repeat?" he continued. "The plain and sovereign people of our beloved country. Whatever menaces their ...

— Unleavened Bread • Robert Grant

... where she sat down and gave way to a burst of grief. The full moon was shining through the trees, illumining with a silver light the roses on the grave and the basket of flowers. The soft evening breeze murmured among the branches, making the rose trees planted on her father's ...

— The Basket of Flowers • Christoph von Schmid

... sun was setting. The flowers which had been taken from the greenhouses to decorate the arch of triumph, bowed their lovely heads sadly in the rough March winds. The fresh, cool breeze whistled through the light draperies and displaced their artistic folds. Notwithstanding the enthusiasm of the citizens, they began to be hungry, and to long greatly for the conclusion of these solemnities. Still the king came not. The Berliners waited ...

— Frederick The Great and His Family • L. Muhlbach

... the sailor fishermen of the coast beating back into harbor. And, watching him through your glass, you would see that he always carried his fish endwise and head first, so as to present the least possible resistance to the breeze. ...

— Wood Folk at School • William J. Long

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