exhalation Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun exhaled breath
    halitus.
  2. noun the act of expelling air from the lungs
    breathing out; expiration.

WordNet

Ex`ha*la"tion noun
Etymology
L. exhalatio: cf. F. exhalaison, exhalation.
Definitions
  1. The act or process of exhaling, or sending forth in the form of steam or vapor; evaporation.
  2. That which is exhaled, or which rises in the form of vapor, fume, or steam; effluvium; emanation; as, exhalations from the earth or flowers, decaying matter, etc.
    Ye mists and exhalations, that now rise From hill or steaming lake. Milton.
  3. A bright phenomenon; a meteor.
    I shall fall Like a bright exhalation in the evening. Shak.

Webster 1913