breezen.1
/briːz/, U.S. /briz/ 1. † b. sea-breeze: a parasite infesting some fish (cf. Greek οἶστρος). Obsolete. Also figurative.
a. A gadfly: a name given to various dipterous insects, esp. of the genera Œstrus (botfly n.) and Tabanus, which annoy horses and cattle. archaic or dialect.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Diptera or flies > [noun] > suborder Brachycera > family Tabanidae > member of genus Tabanus (gadfly or horse-fly)
breezea800
stoutc1000
horsefly1382
gad-bee1510
gadfly1569
brimse1579
wag-leg1585
breeze-fly1587
breame1589
beast-fly1658
burrel-fly1658
whame1658
gad-breeze1665
bree1678
garabee1692
gad1830
thunderbug1837
ox-warble1840
March fly1852
the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Diptera or flies > [noun] > suborder Cyclorrhapha > family Oestridae > genus Oestrum or Oestrus > member of
breezea800
gad-bee1510
gadfly1569
gad-breeze1665
garabee1692
grey fly1752
trumpet-fly1752
botfly?a1775
bot-bee1825
a800 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 7/20 Asilo, briosa.
a800 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 49/42 Tabunus, briosa.
c1380 G. Chaucer Balade I wol me venge on loue as doþe a breese On wylde horsse.
1596 E. Spenser Second Pt. Faerie Queene vi. i. sig. Z7 As doth a Steare..With his long taile the bryzes brush away. View more context for this quotation
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. 329 Certain Brees and horse-flies come of it [timber].
1641 J. Milton Of Reformation 43 They deliver up the poor transformed heifer of the Commonwealth to be stung and vext with the breese, and goad of oppression.
1661 K. W. Confused Characters 77 By the biting of this brye they run headlong after superiority.
1726 A. Pope tr. Homer Odyssey V. xxii. 335 Like oxen madden'd by the breeze's sting.
1850 J. S. Blackie tr. Æschylus Lyrical Dramas II. 44 O pain! pain! pain!.. The fateful brize!
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1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Tahon, a Brizze, Brimsee, Gadbee, Dunflie, Oxeflie. Tahon Marin, the sea Brizze; a kind of worm found about some Fishes.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > [noun] > member of > unspecified
breezea1300
drumblec1350
gagrill14..
bug1594
bud-cutter1693
butter-cutter1704
cane-fly1750
whistle-insect1760
bush-worm1796
gogga1909
nunu1913
minibeast1973
a1300 E.E. Psalter civ. 34 Brese, of whilk na tale ne ware.
1401 in T. Wright Polit. Poems & Songs (1859) II. 54 Whan the first angel blew..ther rose smotheryng smoke, and brese therinne [1611 locusts ( Rev. ix. 3, etc.)].
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 49 Brese, locusta.
1483 W. Caxton tr. J. de Voragine Golden Legende 412/3 That same tyme cam in to fraunce brezes or locustes Innumerable.
Compounds
breeze-fly n. = 1.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Diptera or flies > [noun] > suborder Brachycera > family Tabanidae > member of genus Tabanus (gadfly or horse-fly)
breezea800
stoutc1000
horsefly1382
gad-bee1510
gadfly1569
brimse1579
wag-leg1585
breeze-fly1587
breame1589
beast-fly1658
burrel-fly1658
whame1658
gad-breeze1665
bree1678
garabee1692
gad1830
thunderbug1837
ox-warble1840
March fly1852
1587 L. Mascall First Bk. Cattell i. 34 To make that the breese flie shal not annoy and bite cattel.
1868 J. G. Wood Homes without Hands xxvi. 511 Breeze Fly (Œstrus bovis).
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breezen.2
/briːz/, U.S. /briz/ΘΚΠ
the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > wind > [noun] > wind with reference to direction > winds from specific compass points > north
north windeOE
aquilonc1374
northa1382
Boreas1398
breeze1589
tramontane1615
galern1693
northern1777
norther1827
northerly1895
1589 J. Sparke in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations iii. 537 The ordinary brise taking vs, which is the Northeast winde.
1596 W. Raleigh Discoverie Guiana (new ed.) 98 Against the brize and easterwind.
1604 E. Grimeston tr. J. de Acosta Nat. & Morall Hist. Indies iii. iv. 128 In that Zone..the Easterly windes (which they call Brises) do raine.
a1618 W. Raleigh Apol. Voy. Guiana 19 in Judicious & Sel. Ess. (1650) When the Easterly wind or Breeses are kept off by some High Mountaines.
1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §398 The great Brizes which the motion of the Air in great Circles..produceth.
1686 Philos. Trans. 1685 (Royal Soc.) 15 1148 There are continual Eastern winds under the line which they call Brises.
1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Brizes, or rather Breezes, certain Winds, which the motion of the Air in great circles doth produce, refrigerating those that live under the line.
a. The cool wind that blows from the sea by day on tropical coasts. (This was on the Atlantic sea-board of tropical America an east or north-east wind, i.e. a breeze in sense 1; thence the name was extended to the ‘sea-breeze’ from any point of the compass.) Obsolete except as in 2b.
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the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > wind > [noun] > wind with reference to direction > wind blowing from the sea > by day
breeze1614
1614 W. Raleigh Hist. World i. i. iii. §8. 45 These hottest regions of the world..are..refreshed with a daylie gale of Easternely winde (which the Spaniards call the Brize).
a1618 W. Raleigh Disc. Invention Shipping 39 in Judicious & Select Ess. (1650) Southerly winds (the Brises of our Clymate) thrust them..into the Kings ports.
1627 J. Smith Sea Gram. x. 46 A Breze is a wind blowes out of the Sea, and commonly in faire weather beginneth about nine in the morning.
a1665 K. Digby Jrnl. Voy. to Mediterranean (1868) 38 Intending to goe in in the morning with the brize.
1665 Voy. E.-India in G. Havers tr. P. della Valle Trav. E. India 373 Sending a breeze, or breath, or small gale of wind daily.
1696 E. Phillips New World of Words (new ed.) Breez, a fresh gale of wind blowing off the Sea by day.
1839 C. Thirlwall Hist. Greece (new ed.) II. 307 A strong breeze which regularly blew up the channel at a certain time of the day.
b. Extended to include the counter-current of air that blows from the land by night; hence sea-breeze and land-breeze.
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the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > wind > [noun] > wind with reference to direction > wind blowing from the land > at night
breeze1697
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Æneis vii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 400 From Land a gentle Breeze arose by Night.
1706 in Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.)
1731 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. (ed. 2) II Breez, a fresh gale of wind blowing from the sea or land alternately for some certain hours of the day or night only sensible near the coast.
1782 W. Cowper Loss Royal George 9 A land-breeze shook the shrouds.
1832 T. B. Macaulay Armada 31 The freshening breeze of eve unfurled that banner's massy fold.
3.
a. A gentle or light wind: a breeze is generally understood to be a lighter current of air than a wind, as a wind is lighter than a gale. ‘Among seamen usually synonymous with wind in general’ (Smyth Sailor's Word-bk.).
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the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > wind > [noun] > gentle wind
auraa1398
breathc1400
air1535
gentle gale1567
zephyr1567
pirriea1614
breeze1626
gentle breeze1635
pirra1722
gale1728
zephyret1777
spill1899
1626 J. Smith Accidence Young Sea-men 17 A calme, a brese, a fresh gaile.
1762 W. Falconer Shipwreck i. 350 The lesser sails, that court a gentle breeze.
1798 S. T. Coleridge Anc. Marinere ii, in W. Wordsworth & S. T. Coleridge Lyrical Ballads 12 The breezes blew, the white foam flew.
1863 C. St. John Nat. Hist. Moray vii. 167 The breeze was gentle, but sufficient to take us merrily over.
b. Slang phrases: to hit, split or take the breeze: to depart; to get (have)or put the breeze up: to get or put the wind up (see wind n.1 10b).
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the mind > emotion > fear > apprehension > be apprehensive [verb (intransitive)] > be alarmed
tremble and trotc1425
fear1490
startle1562
to give (also take, raise) the alarm1570
to take alarm1587
to take bog1627
scare1900
to get (have)or put the breeze up1910
to get the wind up1916
spook1928
society > travel > aspects of travel > departure, leaving, or going away > depart, leave, or go away [verb (intransitive)] > set out
forthfarec888
foundOE
seta1000
to go forthOE
to fare forthc1200
partc1230
to pass forthc1325
to take (the) gatec1330
to take the wayc1330
to take one's waya1375
puta1382
treunt?a1400
movec1400
depart1490
prepare?1518
to set forth1530
to set forward(s)1530
busklea1535
to make out1558
to take forth1568
to set out1583
sally1590
start1591
to go off1600
to put forth1604
to start outa1626
intend1646
to take the road1720
to take one's foot in one's hand1755
to set off1774
to get off1778
to set away1817
to take out1855
to haul out1866
to hit the trail (less commonly the grit, pike, road, etc.)1873
to hit, split or take the breeze1910
hop1922
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > go away [verb (intransitive)]
wendeOE
i-wite971
ashakec975
shakeOE
to go awayOE
witea1000
afareOE
agoOE
atwendOE
awayOE
to wend awayOE
awendOE
gangOE
rimeOE
flitc1175
to fare forthc1200
depart?c1225
part?c1225
partc1230
to-partc1275
biwitec1300
atwitea1325
withdrawa1325
to draw awayc1330
passc1330
to turn one's (also the) backc1330
lenda1350
begonec1370
remuea1375
voidc1374
removec1380
to long awaya1382
twinc1386
to pass one's wayc1390
trussc1390
waive1390
to pass out ofa1398
avoida1400
to pass awaya1400
to turn awaya1400
slakec1400
wagc1400
returnc1405
to be gonea1425
muck1429
packc1450
recede1450
roomc1450
to show (a person) the feetc1450
to come offc1475
to take one's licence1475
issue1484
devoidc1485
rebatea1500
walka1500
to go adieua1522
pikea1529
to go one's ways1530
retire?1543
avaunt1549
to make out1558
trudge1562
vade?1570
fly1581
leave1593
wag1594
to get off1595
to go off1600
to put off1600
shog1600
troop1600
to forsake patch1602
exit1607
hence1614
to give offa1616
to take off1657
to move off1692
to cut (also slip) the painter1699
sheera1704
to go about one's business1749
mizzle1772
to move out1792
transit1797–1803
stump it1803
to run away1809
quit1811
to clear off1816
to clear out1816
nash1819
fuff1822
to make (take) tracks (for)1824
mosey1829
slope1830
to tail out1830
to walk one's chalks1835
to take away1838
shove1844
trot1847
fade1848
evacuate1849
shag1851
to get up and get1854
to pull out1855
to cut (the) cable(s)1859
to light out1859
to pick up1872
to sling one's Daniel or hook1873
to sling (also take) one's hook1874
smoke1893
screw1896
shoot1897
voetsak1897
to tootle off1902
to ship out1908
to take a (run-out, walk-out, etc.) powder1909
to push off1918
to bugger off1922
biff1923
to fuck off1929
to hit, split or take the breeze1931
to jack off1931
to piss offa1935
to do a mick1937
to take a walk1937
to head off1941
to take a hike1944
moulder1945
to chuff off1947
to get lost1947
to shoot through1947
skidoo1949
to sod off1950
peel1951
bug1952
split1954
poop1961
mugger1962
frig1965
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > go away [verb (intransitive)] > go away suddenly or hastily
fleec825
runOE
swervea1225
biwevec1275
skip1338
streekc1380
warpa1400
yerna1400
smoltc1400
stepc1460
to flee (one's) touch?1515
skirr1548
rubc1550
to make awaya1566
lope1575
scuddle1577
scoura1592
to take the start1600
to walk off1604
to break awaya1616
to make off1652
to fly off1667
scuttle1681
whew1684
scamper1687
whistle off1689
brush1699
to buy a brush1699
to take (its, etc.) wing1704
decamp1751
to take (a) French leave1751
morris1765
to rush off1794
to hop the twig1797
to run along1803
scoot1805
to take off1815
speela1818
to cut (also make, take) one's lucky1821
to make (take) tracks (for)1824
absquatulize1829
mosey1829
absquatulate1830
put1834
streak1834
vamoose1834
to put out1835
cut1836
stump it1841
scratch1843
scarper1846
to vamoose the ranch1847
hook1851
shoo1851
slide1859
to cut and run1861
get1861
skedaddle1862
bolt1864
cheese it1866
to do a bunkc1870
to wake snakes1872
bunk1877
nit1882
to pull one's freight1884
fooster1892
to get the (also to) hell out (of)1892
smoke1893
mooch1899
to fly the coop1901
skyhoot1901
shemozzle1902
to light a shuck1905
to beat it1906
pooter1907
to take a run-out powder1909
blow1912
to buzz off1914
to hop it1914
skate1915
beetle1919
scram1928
amscray1931
boogie1940
skidoo1949
bug1950
do a flit1952
to do a scarper1958
to hit, split or take the breeze1959
to do a runner1980
to be (also get, go) ghost1986
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > causing to go away > command to go away [verb (intransitive)]
scud1602
go scrape!1611
to push off (also along)1740
to go it1797
to walk one's chalks1835
morris1838
scat1838
go 'long1859
to take a walk1881
shoot1897
skidoo1905
to beat it1906
to go to the dickens1910
to jump (or go (and) jump) in the lake1912
scram1928
to piss offa1935
to bugger off1937
to fuck off1940
go and have a roll1941
eff1945
to feck off?1945
to get lost1947
to sod off1950
bug1956
to hit, split or take the breeze1959
naff1959
frig1965
muck1974
to rack off1975
1910 ‘O. Henry’ Whirligigs xiv. 168 We got to be hittin' the breeze.
1925 E. Fraser & J. Gibbons Soldier & Sailor Words 35 Breeze up, to have the: to be nervous, to have the ‘wind up’.
1931 D. Runyon Guys & Dolls (1932) 29 And with this she takes the breeze and I return to the other room.
1934 D. L. Sayers Nine Tailors 279 He got a vertical breeze up.
1948 D. Ballantyne Cunninghams i. xvi. 89 She was only making out she hadn't seen you so's you wouldn't get the breeze up.
1951 J. B. Priestley Festival at Farbridge 296 Put the breeze up me.
1959 I. Opie & P. Opie Lore & Lang. Schoolchildren x. 193 Expressions inviting a person's departure, for instance:..sling your hook, split the breeze, [etc.].
4. figurative.
a. A disturbance, quarrel, ‘row’. colloquial.
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society > society and the community > dissent > quarrel or quarrelling > [noun] > noisy or angry quarrel > instance of
ganglinga1387
altercation1410
brawla1500
heat1549
wranglea1555
brabble1566
paroxysm1578
wrangling1580
brangle1600
branglement1617
rixation1623
row1746
skimmington1753
mêlée1765
breeze1785
squeal1788
hash1789
rook1808
blow-up1809
blowout1825
scena1826
reerie1832
catfight1854
barney1855
wigs on the green1856
bull and cow1859
scrap1890
slanging match1896
snap1897
up-and-downer1927
brannigan1941
rhubarb1941
bitch fight1949
punch-up1958
shout-up1965
shouting match1970
1785 F. Grose Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue To kick up a breeze, to breed a disturbance.
1803 Duke of Wellington Let. 3 Oct. in Dispatches (1837) II. 367 The cession would create a breeze in the Konkan.
1811 Duke of Wellington Let. 28 Feb. in Dispatches (1838) VII. 320 There was an old breeze between [General] —— and ——.
1837 F. Marryat Snarleyyow (ed. 2) I. xv. 200 Jemmy, who expected a breeze, told his wife to behave herself quietly.
1865 Sat. Rev. 28 Jan. 119 ‘Don't be angry, we've had our breeze. Shake hands.’
b. A breath of news, whisper, rumour. colloquial.
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society > communication > information > rumour > [noun]
speechc1000
wordOE
hearinga1300
opinion1340
talesa1375
famea1387
inklinga1400
slandera1400
noising1422
rumour?a1425
bruit1477
nickinga1500
commoninga1513
roarc1520
murmura1522
hearsay?1533
cry1569
scandal1596
vogue1626
discourse1677
sough1716
circulation1775
gossip1811
myth1849
breeze1879
sound1899
potin1922
dirt1926
rumble1929
skinny1938
labrish1942
lie and story1950
scam1964
he-say-she-say1972
factoid1973
ripple1977
goss1985
1879 R. L. Stevenson Trav. with Donkey 215 There came a breeze that Spirit Séguier was near at hand.
1884 Denver (Colorado) Tribune Aug. Give us a breeze on the subject.
c. slang. Something easy to achieve, handle, etc. Originally U.S.
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the world > action or operation > easiness > [noun] > that which is easy
ball play?c1225
child's gamec1380
boys' play1538
walkover1861
picnic1870
pudding1884
cakewalk1886
pie1886
cinch1888
snipa1890
pushover1891
pinch1897
sitter1898
pipe1902
five-finger exercise1903
duck soup1912
pud1917
breeze1928
kid stuff1929
soda1930
piece of cake1936
doddle1937
snack1941
stroll1942
piece of piss1949
waltz1968
1928 G. H. Ruth Babe Ruth's Own Bk. Baseball 299 Breeze, an easy chance.
1958 M. Dickens Man Overboard ix. 136 This will be a breeze for you.
1962 S. Carpenter in J. Glenn et al. Into Orbit 75 All in all, the test was a breeze.
Compounds
General attributive.
breeze-borne adj.
Π
1804 J. Grahame Sabbath 19 On the distant cairns the watcher's ear Caught doubtfully at times the breeze-borne note.
breeze-like adj.
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the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > wind > [adjective] > gentle > like a breeze
breeze-like1798
1798–9 S. T. Coleridge Day-dream ii. 5 A soft and breeze-like feeling.
1802 W. Wordsworth To H. C. The breeze-like motion.
breeze-shaken adj.
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the world > movement > motion in specific manner > irregular movement or agitation > [adjective] > agitated > by the wind
wind-shaken?1553
wind-shakeda1616
breeze-shaken1742
1742 E. Young Complaint: Night the Second 21 Fate..Hair-hung, breeze-shaken, o'er the Gulph A moment trembles.
breeze-swept adj.
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the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > wind > [adjective] > blown (upon) by wind
windyOE
yblowe1377
blown1552
wind-blown1593
weather-blown?1611
breezy1717
gusty1726
windswept1791
breeze-swept1872
blastful1883
1872 C. S. Calverley Fly Leaves 4 Lingers on, till stars unnumbered Tremble in the breeze-swept tarn.
1894 G. M. L. Bell Safar Nameh: Persian Pictures 48 On the threshold of his breeze-swept dwelling.
breeze-wooing adj.
Π
c1830 J. H. Green Morn. Invit. Child 22 The bee hums of heather and breeze-wooing hill.
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breezen.3
/briːz/, U.S. /briz/ Small cinders and cinder-dust, used in burning bricks, etc.; small coke and coke-dust.
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society > occupation and work > materials > fuel > coal or types of coal > [noun] > coke
coke1669
cinder1703
pit charcoal1771
gleed1853
breeze1875
1726 Act 12 Geo. I c. 35 Nor any Breeze be used in the burning of any Bricks for Sale.
1751 Chambers's Cycl. (ed. 7) Breeze, in brick-making, are small ashes and cinders, sometimes made use of instead of coals, for the burning of bricks.
1862 Act 25 & 26 Vic. c. 102 §89 If any person..carry away.. cinders, rubbish, ashes, or breeze from any houses.
1864 Athenæum No. 1928. 466/3 Braize (or cinder taken from the scavenger's yard).
1865 W. S. Jevons Coal Quest. (ed. 2) 313 It became customary to mix coke and brays or small coal with the charge of fuel.
1875 R. Hunt & F. W. Rudler Ure's Dict. Arts (ed. 7) I. 505 Breezes (Braise Fr.), the dust of coke or charcoal. The coke burner applies this term to the small residual coke obtained in coke burning. The sifted ashes removed from houses is called breeze, and sold under that name to brickmakers and others.
1884 R. R. Bowker in Harper's Mag. Apr. 777/1 Coke breeze (the refuse of gas-works).
Compounds
C1. attributive.
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1874 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. I. 367/1 Breeze-oven, a furnace adapted for burning coal-dust or breeze.
C2.
breeze-block n. a building-block made of ‘breeze’ (or some similar material) (see quot. 1923); so .
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society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > concrete > [noun] > brick or block of
brick1427
breeze-block1923
slab1927
hollow block1964
patio block1969
1923 Harmsworth's Househ. Encycl. I. 521/2 Breeze block. Fine cinders, crushed coke, furnace clinker and burnt brick are used under the name of breeze in the construction of blocks for housebuilding...Breeze-blocks are fire-resisting, light and porous, suited for partitions and other internal walling.
1930 E. J. P. Benn Acct. Rendered ii. 10 We put up breeze-block boxes to look like houses.
breeze-concrete n.
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society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > concrete > [noun] > types of
tabby1802
beton1813
granolithic1881
reinforced concrete1891
ferro-concrete1896
armoured concrete1898
re-enforced concrete1902
breeze-concrete1930
mass concrete1930
Siporex1938
grano1940
shell concrete1949
no-fines1960
1930 Engineering 11 July 41/3 Breeze and clinker concrete.
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† breezev.1
Obsolete. rare.
intransitive. To buzz as a breeze or gadfly.
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > continuous or protracted sound > sibilant sound > [verb (intransitive)] > buzz
hurr1398
hoss1530
breeze1688
zizz1883
zoom1886
zither1889
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. ix. 191 The Brize, Breezeth, or Brilleth.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online March 2021).
breezev.2
/briːz/, U.S. /briz/ 1.
a. intransitive. To blow gently, as a breeze. rare.
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the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > wind > blow (of the wind) [verb (intransitive)] > blow gently
breathe1567
perspire1648
breeze1682
waft1804
sniffle1885
zephyr1973
1682 [implied in: ‘T. Rationalis’ New News from Bedlam 21 We launcht our Ship..As having then some breezing prosperous Gales. (at breezing adj.)].
1807 J. Barlow Columbiad iv. 163 The breathing airs..Breeze up the bay.
b. colloquial. To move or proceed briskly; to depart. So to breeze in: to arrive or enter briskly. Originally U.S.
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society > travel > [verb (intransitive)] > speedily
rakeOE
rekec1275
raikc1390
richc1400
freck1513
to hie it1620
whidc1730
scoot1758
spank1807
kilt1816
nip1825
slip1864
breeze1907
bomb1966
society > travel > aspects of travel > arrival > arrive [verb (intransitive)]
to come toOE
comeOE
yworthOE
lend11..
lightc1225
overtakec1225
redea1275
wina1300
'rivec1300
repaira1325
applyc1384
to come ina1399
arrivec1400
attainc1400
alightc1405
to come to handc1450
unto-comec1450
apport1578
to get through1589
reach1591
to be along1597
land1679
engage1686
to get in1863
to breeze in1930
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming in > go or come in [verb (intransitive)] > quickly
inthringc1330
leapa1500
inrush1610
rusha1616
to breeze in1930
to buzz in1938
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > movement towards a thing, person, or position > reaching a point or place > reach a point or place [verb (intransitive)] > arrive
comeOE
to come to townOE
yworthOE
lend11..
lightc1225
to come anovenonc1275
wina1300
'rivec1300
repaira1325
applyc1384
to come ina1399
rede?a1400
arrivec1400
attainc1400
alightc1405
to come to handc1450
unto-comec1450
apport1578
to be along1597
to drop in1609
to come ona1635
to walk in1656
land1679
engage1686
to come along1734
to get in1863
to turn up1870
to fall in1900
to lob1916
to roll up1920
to breeze in1930
to rock up1975
1907 Chicago Evening Post 4 May 9 He breezed through the Louvre at such a pace that he broke all the rapid sight~seeing records.
1922 J. A. Dunn Man Trap ix. 129 If they show, breeze right along and forget me.
1923 P. G. Wodehouse Inimitable Jeeves iv. 51 ‘Ten o'clock, a clear night, and all's well, Jeeves,’ I said, breezing back into the good old suite.
1923 P. G. Wodehouse Inimitable Jeeves xv. 204 To..warn young Bingo to turn his coat-collar up and breeze off snakily by some side exit.
1930 W. S. Maugham Breadwinner i. 45 When did you breeze in, old bean?
1951 R. Campbell Light on Dark Horse 246 My favourite brother George..breezed in to look for me.
2. to breeze up (Nautical): (of a wind) to freshen, to become stronger: also impersonal. Of a noise: to rise on the breeze.
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > audibility > be or become audible [verb (intransitive)]
bursta1325
risea1325
sounda1325
arisec1330
wrestc1400
uprise?a1513
to meet the eye (also ear)1645
ascend1667
to breeze up1752
well1825
to break stillness1853
fade1879
the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > wind > blow (of the wind) [verb (intransitive)] > blow strongly > increase
rise?1520
fresh1599
to come up1647
freshen1669
ascend1715
to get up1834
to blow up1840
stiffen1844
to breeze up1867
to pipe up1901
1752 G. Washington Diaries I. 31 At noon the Wind breezed up at So. and clouded.
1849 N. Kingsley Diary 10 Sun Easter day not much wind, quite pleasant, breezed up in the evening.
1859 H. Kingsley Recoll. G. Hamlyn xliv The noise of the distant fight breezed up louder than ever.
1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Breezing up, the gale freshening.
1881 W. C. Russell Sailor's Sweetheart III. vi. 292 Standing by the topsail halliards should it breeze up.
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