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Definition of Breathers
1. breather [n] - See also: breather
Lexicographical Neighbors of Breathers
Literary usage of Breathers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Design in Nature: Illustrated by Spiral and Other Arrangements in the by James Bell Pettigrew (1908)
"Animals specially constructed as Air-breathers and Water-breathers, and for Land,
Water, and Air Transit. It is all but certain from the geological record ..."
2. Motor Vehicle Engineering: Engines (for Automobiles, Trucks and Tractors) by Ethelbert Favary (1919)
"breathers Modern motors are usually provided with " breathers "through which ...
Without breathers there would be air pressure in the crank chamber which ..."
3. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1891)
"NOCTURNAL ENURESIS IN MOUTH-breathers. Schmalz was the first observer who showed
a causal connection between mouth-breathing and enuresis. ..."
4. The Popular Science Monthly (1885)
"THE OLDEST AIR-breathers. WE alluded in the March number of the "Monthly," to
the fossil scorpions recently discovered in the Upper Silurian formations of ..."
5. A Handbook of Health by Woods Hutchinson (1920)
"... -breathers Note how swollen the face is under the eyes and how tired and dull
the whole expression. through your mouth. These swollen glands are called ..."
6. Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, Exhibiting a View of the Progressive by Robert Jameson, Sir William Jardine, Henry D Rogers (1864)
"Air-breathers of the Coal Period: a Descriptive Account of the Remains of Land
Animals found in the Coal Formation of Nova Scotia, with Remarks on their ..."
7. Evolution, Heredity and Eugenics by John Merle Coulter (1916)
"APPEARANCE OF AIR-breathers AND VERTEBRATES. Air-breathing animals probably did
not appear till after plants had clothed the surface of the land. ..."
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