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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 breeze /ˈbriz/
 和風,微風;流言,爭吵;輕鬆的事情(v.)刮微風,輕鬆地完成

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Breeze n.
 1. Refuse left in the process of making coke or burning charcoal.
 2. Brickmaking Refuse coal, coal ashes, and cinders, used in the burning of bricks.

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Breeze, v. i. To blow gently. [R.]
 To breeze up Naut., to blow with increasing freshness.
 

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Breeze Breeze fly, n.  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.]
 

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Breeze, n.
 1. A light, gentle wind; a fresh, soft-blowing wind.
    Into a gradual calm the breezes sink.   --Wordsworth.
 2. An excited or ruffed state of feeling; a flurry of excitement; a disturbance; a quarrel; as, the discovery produced a breeze. [Colloq.]
 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.

From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 breeze
      n 1: a slight wind (usually refreshing); "the breeze was cooled
           by the lake"; "as he waited he could feel the air on his
           neck" [syn: zephyr, gentle wind, air]
      2: any undertaking that is easy to do; "marketing this product
         will be no picnic" [syn: cinch, picnic, snap, duck
         soup, child's play, pushover, walkover, piece of
         cake]
      v 1: blow gently and lightly; "It breezes most evenings at the
           shore"
      2: to proceed quickly and easily