An after dinner's breath.
Shak.
Out of breath, breathless, exhausted; breathing with difficulty. -- Under one's breath, in low tones.
Breath"a*ble (br"*b'l), a. Such as can be breathed.
Breath"a*ble*ness, n. State of being breathable.
Breathe (br), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Breathed (&?;); p. pr. & vb. n. Breathing.] [From Breath.]
1. To respire; to inhale and exhale air; hence;, to live. "I am in health, I breathe." Shak.
Breathes there a man with soul so dead?
Sir W. Scott.