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noun
IPA/ˈzɛfɚ/
Syllablesze·phyr
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noun

A light wind from the west.

The Western [winds] have been Counted the mildest, & most Auspicious of all others; and were so highly in favour with the Poets, that they thought them worthy of the Golden Age, and to refresh the Elysian groves. [...] But though the Breathing Zephyrs are so much celebrated in Poems and Romances, and happily were kinder to the delicious countries of Italy, & Greece, yet wee find no lesse malignity in their natures from particular accidents and climats, then what wee have observ’d of other Winds.

Synonyms:westerly
noun

Any light refreshing wind; a gentle breeze.

O thou Goddeſſe, / Thou diuine Nature; thou^([sic – meaning how]) thy ſelfe thou blazon'ſt / In theſe two Princely Boyes: they are as gentle / As Zephires blowing below the Violet, / Not wagging his ſweet head; [...]

verb

To blow or move like a zephyr, or light breeze.

There was a time When the soft zephyring spring came joyfully, Like a young bride, with bloom upon her cheek—

verb

To blow or blow on gently like a zephyr; to cool or refresh with a gentle breeze.

1849, letter from Leonidas Lent Hamline dated 15 December, 1849, in Walter Clark Palmer, Life and Letters of Leonidas L. Hamline, D.D., New York: Carlton & Porter, 1866, Chapter 15, p. 361, He was a fragrant poison, a zephyred pestilence spread through all the city.

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