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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

... high as he could he tied the flag with a piece of twine that Weber had given him—the Alsation seemed to have provided for everything—and then watched it as it unfolded and fluttered in the light breeze. He felt a certain pride, as he had done his part of the task well. The flag waved above the green leaves and any watcher of the ...

— The Forest of Swords - A Story of Paris and the Marne • Joseph A. Altsheler

... eyes. He left the theatre and walked light-headedly across Chowringhee and out into the starlit empty darkness of the Maidan, where presently he stumbled upon a wooden bench under a tree. There, after a little, sleep fell upon his amazement, and he lay unconscious for an hour or two, while the breeze stole across the grass from the river and the mast-head lights watched beside the city. He woke chilled and normal, and when he reached the Mission House in College Street his servant was surprised at the unusual irritation of ...

— The Path of a Star • Mrs. Everard Cotes (AKA Sara Jeannette Duncan)

... leaf all over the face of the rocky scarp that hemmed the swirling tide of the Hudson; the radiance of the evening sunshine bathed all the eastern shores in mellow light and left the dark slopes and deep gorges of the opposite range all the deeper and darker by contrast. A lively breeze had driven most of the passengers within doors as they sped through the broad waters of the Tappan Zee, but, once within the sheltering traverses of Dunderberg and the heights beyond, many of their number reappeared upon the promenade deck, and first among them was the bonnie little ...

— Starlight Ranch - and Other Stories of Army Life on the Frontier • Charles King

... the Towncrier came nearer, he saw Georgina skipping along toward him with her jumping rope. She was bare-headed, her pink dress fluttering in the salt breeze, her curls blowing back from her glowing little face. He would have hastened his steps to meet her, but his honest soul always demanded a certain amount of service from himself for the dollar paid him for each trip of this kind. So he went on at his customary gait, stopping at the usual ...

— Georgina of the Rainbows • Annie Fellows Johnston

... huts are generally placed without any regularity, according to the caprice of the owner. The only rule that seems to be attended to is placing the door towards the south- west, in order to admit the sea-breeze. ...

— Travels in the Interior of Africa - Volume 1 • Mungo Park

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