Noah Webster
Breath
BREATH, noun breth.
1. The air inhaled and expelled in the respiration of animals.
2. Life.
No man has more contempt than I of breath
3. The state or power of breathing freely; opposed to a state of exhaustion from violent action; as, I am out of breath; I am scarce in breath
4. Respite; pause; time to breathe; as, let me take breath; give me some breath
5. Breeze; aid in gentle motion.
Calm and unruffled as a summer's sea,
When not a breath of wind flies o'er its surface.
6. A single respiration; as, he swears at every breath
7. An instant; the time of a single respiration; a single act.
He smiles and he frowns in a breath
8. A word.
A breath can make them, as a breath has made.