Breather: Definition and part of speech

Breather

  1. n. That which puts one out of breath, as violent exercise.
  2. n. One who breathes. Hence: (a) One who lives.(b) One who utters. (c) One who animates or inspires.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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