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noun a slight wind (usually refreshing).

noun any undertaking that is easy to do.

verb To move casually, in a carefree manner.

noun Ashes and residue of coal or charcoal, usually from a furnace.

noun cricket Wind blowing across a cricket match, whatever its strength.

noun Any activity that is easy, not testing or difficult.

noun meteorology A gentle to moderate wind.

noun A strong-bodied dipterous insect of the family Tabanidae.

noun (Brickmaking) Refuse coal, coal ashes, and cinders, used in the burning of bricks.įrom Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

noun Refuse left in the process of making coke or burning charcoal.

noun a breeze or wind blowing, generally in the daytime, from the sea.

noun a wind blowing from the land, generally at night.

An excited or ruffed state of feeling a flurry of excitement a disturbance a quarrel.

noun A light, gentle wind a fresh, soft-blowing wind.

intransitive verb (Naut.) to blow with increasing freshness.

The name is also given to different species of botflies. They are among the largest of two-winged or dipterous insects.

noun (Zoöl.) A fly of various species, of the family Tabanidæ, noted for buzzing about animals, and tormenting them by sucking their blood - called also horsefly, and gadfly.

noun In electrotherapy, a discharge of high tension electricity from a pointed or brush electrode, causing a sensation as of a spray falling on the skin.įrom the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

noun A gadfly a horse-fly specifically, one of certain strongbodied dipterous insects of the family Tabanidœ.

noun A noisy quarrel a disturbance a row.

noun A moderately brisk wind a movement of air not so strong as a gale: as, a refreshing breeze a stiff breeze at sea.

noun The material sifted out from house-ashes, extensively used in burning bricks cinders.

noun House-sweepings, as fluff, dust, ashes, etc.

intransitive verb To progress swiftly or easily.

intransitive verb To move quickly, smoothly, or easily.

noun Informal Something, such as a task, that is easy to do.

noun Any of five winds with speeds of from 4 to 27 knots (5 to 31 miles per hour 7 to 50 kilometers per hour), according to the Beaufort scale.

noun A light current of air a gentle wind.

noun The refuse left when coke or charcoal is made.

From The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

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