01 n. The act or process of exhaling, or sending forth in the form of steam or vapor; evaporation.
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The act or process of exhaling, or sending forth in the form of steam or vapor; evaporation.
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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.
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A bright phenomenon; a meteor.[archaic]“I shall fall Like a bright exhalation in the evening.” — Shak.