Word Meanings - ASPIRATORY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Of or pertaining to breathing; suited to the inhaling of air

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• BREATHE
  Etym: 1. To respire; to inhale and exhale air; hence;, to live. "I am in health, I breathe." Shak. Breathes there a man with soul so dead Sir W. Scott. 2. To take breath; to rest from action. Well! breathe awhile, and then to it again! Shak. 3.
• SUITABILITY
  The quality or state of being suitable; suitableness.
• SUITRESS
  A female supplicant. Rowe.
• SUITING
  Among tailors, cloth suitable for making entire suits of clothes.
• INHALANT
  Inhaling; used for inhaling.
• INHALENT
  Used for inhaling; as, the inhalent end of a duct. Dana.
• BREATHLESS
  1. Spent with labor or violent action; out of breath. 2. Not breathing; holding the breath, on account of fear, expectation, or intense interest; attended with a holding of the breath; as, breathless attention. But breathless, as we grow
• INHALER
  1. One who inhales. 2. An apparatus for inhaling any vapor or volatile substance, as ether or chloroform, for medicinal purposes. 3. A contrivance to filter, as air, in order to protect the lungs from inhaling damp or cold air, noxious gases, dust,
• BREATHABLE
  Such as can be breathed.
• BREATHER
  1. One who breathes. Hence: One who lives. One who utters. One who animates or inspires. 2. That which puts one out of breath, as violent exercise.
• BREATHING
  1. Respiration; the act of inhaling and exhaling air. Subject to a difficulty of breathing. Melmoth. 2. Air in gentle motion. 3. Any gentle influence or operation; inspiration; as, the breathings of the Spirit. 4. Aspiration; secret prayer.
• PERTAIN
  stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant
• BREATHLESSLY
  In a breathless manner.
• BREATHLESSNESS
  The state of being breathless or out of breath.
• SUITABLE
  Capable of suiting; fitting; accordant; proper; becoming; agreeable; adapted; as, ornaments suitable to one's station; language suitable for the subject. -- Suit"a*ble*ness, n. -- Suit"a*bly, adv. Syn. -- Proper; fitting; becoming; accordant;
• BREATH
  OHG. bradam steam, vapor, breath, G. brodem, and possibly E. Brawn, 1. The air inhaled and exhaled in respiration, air which, in the process of respiration, has parted with oxygen and has received carbonic acid, aqueous vapor, warmth, etc. Melted
• SUITOR
  1. One who sues, petitions, or entreats; a petitioner; an applicant. She hath been a suitor to me for her brother. Shak. 2. Especially, one who solicits a woman in marriage; a wooer; a lover. Sir P. Sidney. One who sues or prosecutes a demand in
• INHALATION
  The act of inhaling; also, that which is inhaled.
• BREATHFUL
  Full of breath; full of odor; fragrant.
• SUITE
  One of the old musical forms, before the time of the more compact sonata, consisting of a string or series of pieces all in the same key, mostly in various dance rhythms, with sometimes an elaborate prelude. Some composers of the present day affect
• DEMISUIT
  A suit of light armor covering less than the whole body, as having no protection for the legs below the things, no vizor to the helmet, and the like.
• UNSUIT
  Not to suit; to be unfit for. Quarles.
• UPBREATHE
  To breathe up or out; to exhale. Marston.
• JESUITOCRACY
  Government by Jesuits; also, the whole body of Jesuits in a country. C. Kingsley.
• JESUITIC; JESUITICAL
  1. Of or pertaining to the Jesuits, or to their principles and methods. 2. Designing; cunning; deceitful; crafty; -- an opprobrious use of the word. Dryden.
• JESUITESS
  One of an order of nuns established on the principles of the Jesuits, but suppressed by Pope Urban in 1633.
• INBREATHE
  To infuse by breathing; to inspire. Coleridge.
• REBREATHE
  To breathe again.