Breathe, v. t.
 1. To inhale and exhale in the process of respiration; to respire.
    To view the light of heaven, and breathe the vital air.   --Dryden.
 2. To inject by breathing; to infuse; -- with into.
    Able to breathe life into a stone.   --Shak.
    And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life.   --Gen. ii. 7.
 3. To emit or utter by the breath; to utter softly; to whisper; as, to breathe a vow.
    He softly breathed thy name.   --Dryden.
 Or let the church, our mother, breathe her curse,
 A mother's curse, on her revolting son.   --Shak.
 4. To exhale; to emit, as breath; as, the flowers breathe odors or perfumes.
 5. To express; to manifest; to give forth.
    Others articles breathe the same severe spirit.   --Milner.
 6. To act upon by the breath; to cause to sound by breathing. “They breathe the flute.”
 7. To promote free respiration in; to exercise.
    And every man should beat thee. I think thou wast created for men to breathe themselves upon thee.   --Shak.
 8. To suffer to take breath, or recover the natural breathing; to rest; as, to breathe a horse.
    A moment breathed his panting steed.   --Sir W. Scott.
 9. To put out of breath; to exhaust.
    Mr. Tulkinghorn arrives in his turret room, a little breathed by the journey up.   --Dickens.
 10. Phonetics To utter without vocality, as the nonvocal consonants.
    The same sound may be pronounces either breathed, voiced, or whispered.   --H. Sweet.
    =\Breathed elements, being already voiceless, remain unchanged
 Note: [in whispering].\=   --H. Sweet.
 To breathe again, to take breath; to feel a sense of relief, as from danger, responsibility, or press of business.
 To breathe one's last, to die; to expire.
 To breathe a vein, to open a vein; to let blood.

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