Breathing

1. p. pr. & vb. n. of Breathe
2. n. Respiration; the act of inhaling and exhaling air.
3. n. Air in gentle motion.
4. n. Any gentle influence or operation; inspiration; as, the breathings of the Spirit.
5. n. Aspiration; secret prayer.
6. n. Exercising; promotion of respiration.
7. n. Utterance; communication or publicity by words.
8. n. Breathing place; vent.
9. n. Stop; pause; delay.
10. n. Also, in a wider sense, the sound caused by the friction of the outgoing breath in the throat, mouth, etc., when the glottis is wide open; aspiration; the sound expressed by the letter h.

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.