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   Breeze , Breeze fly , n. [OE. brese, AS. briósa; perh. akin to OHG. brimissa, G. breme, bremse, D. brems, which are akin to G. brummen to growl, buzz, grumble, L. fremere to murmur; cf. G. brausen, Sw. brusa, Dan. bruse, to roar, rush.] (Zool.) 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. They are among the largest of two-winged or dipterous insects. The name is also given to different species of botflies. [Written also breese and brize.]
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   Breeze, n. [F. brise; akin to It. brezza breeze, Sp. briza, brisa, a breeze from northeast, Pg. briza northeast wind; of uncertain origin; cf. F. bise, Pr. bisa, OHG. bisa, north wind, Arm. biz northeast wind.]
   A light, gentle wind; a fresh, soft-blowing wind.
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   Into a gradual calm the breezes sink.
   Wordsworth.
   
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   An excited or ruffed state of feeling; a flurry of excitement; a disturbance; a quarrel; as, the discovery produced a breeze. [Colloq.]
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   Land breeze, a wind blowing from the land, generally at night. -- Sea breeze, a breeze or wind blowing, generally in the daytime, from the sea.
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   Breeze , n. [F. braise cinders, live coals. See Brasier.]
    Refuse left in the process of making coke or burning charcoal.
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   (Brickmaking) Refuse coal, coal ashes, and cinders, used in the burning of bricks.
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   Breeze, v. i. To blow gently. [R.]
   J. Barlow.
   
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   To breeze up (Naut.), to blow with increasing freshness.
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