breathful

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   That breathes

   That breathes; alive.

   • They for nought would from their work refrain, Nor let his speeches come unto their ear; And eke the breathful bellows blew amain Like to the northern wind, that none could hear:
   • the universe as body, mass as energy and energy as mass, became transformed to spirit when, through us, originating laughter found a name for everything that is and nourished into breathful form.
2. 2

   Full of odour

   Full of odour; fragrant.

   • Fresh Costmarie, and breathfull Camomill.
   • Men came, they partook, and they breathed of ramps. They had left their telltale and breathful mark.
3. 3

   Full of breath, produced by the breath

   Full of breath, produced by the breath; breathy.

   • He spoke a queer, jerky kind of American that I can only describe as breathful.
   • He smelled the rank odor of the man and heard his breathful muttering.
   • Against the window her lips press a row of breathful O's until, due to both a quick and vengeful draft, her candle's flame lilts, disappears.
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   1. 4

      Focused on control of one's breathing.

      • The breathful twist on timing also adds a touch of novelty and a bit of distraction when facing more difficult topics.
      • Breathful movement practices such as Chi Kung/ Qigong (Lam Kam Chuen 1999) have been used successfully by group psychotherapists to energize and soothe, even in settings where psychological distress is intense (Potik and Schreiber 2013).
   2. 5

      Characteristic of a breath

      Characteristic of a breath; breath-like.

      • Individual wind instruments do not get obscured during the interplay of the tutti orchestra. Each section appears in naturally airy, breathful, resonant relief.
   3. 6

      Not breathless

      Not breathless; breathing easily.

      • The end result of the Princeton experiment was that a startled but breathful Rutgers team downed a hell-raising breathless Princeton squad, 6-4.
      • My face relaxed as a smile broke my tension. I hitched my pack up, stood straight, and walked with measured, breathful steps.
   4. 7

      Relaxed and quiet.

      • After the noon-blaze, in the breathful eve, The many 'folk of holiday ' come out ; And lovers saunter on the pier, and leave The gossip of their friends, to walk about
      • It was the breathful stillness of a tropical afternoon.
   5. 8

      That which is smelled or sensed in one breath.

      • Once you've swirled, close your eyes and take a good breathful of the wine.
      • Before my taxi arrived I went to her wardrobe and pressed my face into her dresses, hoping to keep a breathful of her with me.
      • I like the church, which seems to be holding a breathful of vivid memories whenever I'm in there alone.
   6. 9

      A quantity that is inhaled in one breath.

      • Approximately I/5 of the oxygen in each breathful of air is absorbed by the body.
      • The planter caught a big breathful of anger, but Charlie went straight on: “I rather wouldn't, mais I will do it for you;—just the same, like Monsieur le Compte would say, 'Charlie, you old fool, I want to shange houses wid you.'
      • Samantha took in a breathful of ocean air, then scrambled farther.
   7. 10

      The amount spoken on one breath.

      • The arbitrary time limit measured by breathsful of talk not only protects the pair or group from flooding but can also comfort the nervous disclosure by providing a limited demand.
   8. 11

      A quantity that is exhaled in one breath.

      • A fifteen-month gap separates the recording of the "The First Part" from "The Third Part," but the music could just as easily be two bubbles blown from the same fish on the same breathful of water.
      • And, cordially, putting a brotherly arm around his visitor, he would blow a breathful of ether in his face.

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