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Webster 1913 Edition

Breeze

Breeze

,
Noun.
[F.
brise
; akin to It.
brezza
breeze, Sp.
briza
,
brisa
, a breeze from northeast, Pg.
briza
northeast wind; of uncertain origin; cf. F.
bise
, Pr.
bisa
, OHG.
bisa
, north wind, Arm.
biz
northeast wind.]
1.
A light, gentle wind; a fresh, soft-blowing wind.
Into a gradual calm the
breezes
sink.
Wordsworth.
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.

Breeze

,
Noun.
[F.
braise
cinders, live coals. See
Brasier
.]
1.
Refuse left in the process of making coke or burning charcoal.
2.
(Brickmaking)
Refuse coal, coal ashes, and cinders, used in the burning of bricks.

Breeze

,
Verb.
I.
To blow gently.
[R.]
J. Barlow.
To breeze up
(Naut.)
,
to blow with increasing freshness.

Webster 1828 Edition

Breeze

BREEZE

,
Noun.
A genus of flies or insects, technically called Tabanus. There are many species,but the most noted is the bovinus, great horsefly, whose mouth is armed with two hooks which penetrate the skin of an animal, while with a proboscis, like a sting, it sucks the blood.

BREEZE

,
Noun.
[Gr. to boil.]
1.
A light wind; a gentle gale.
From land a gentle breeze arose at night.
2.
A shifting wind, that blows from the sea or from the land, for a certain time, by night or by day. Such breezes are common in the tropical regions, and in a good degree regular. The wind from the sea is called a sea breeze, and that from the land, a land breeze. In general, the sea breeze blows in the day time, and the land breeze at night. The like breezes are common, in the summer months, in the temperate latitudes.

BREEZE

,
Verb.
I.
To blow gently; a word common among seamen.
For now the breathing airs, from ocean born,
Breeze up the bay, and lead the lively morn.

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