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It comes from the Latin word "halitus," meaning "breath."
The place, by the by, was very stuffy and oppressive, and the faint halitus of freshly shed blood was in the air.— The Time Machine
Tendere iter pennis: _talis sese halitus atris_— The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12)
Casual men's shoes in anhima were runny fiddling bayard ago to be izmir to a halitus in coma of anterior rep.— Rational Review
Salem denique ipse Beguinus siccum vocat & Terrestrem, qui tamen nec fusus Aquam, nec caustica vi ignem celare potest; ignis vero Violentia in halitus versus nec ab Aere se alienum esse demonstrat; Idem de Lacte, de Ovis, de semine Lini, de— The Sceptical Chymist or Chymico-Physical Doubts & Paradoxes, Touching the Spagyrist's Principles Commonly call'd Hypostatical; As they are wont to be Propos'd and Defended by the Generality of Alchymists. Whereunto is præmis'd Part of another Discourse relating to the same Subject.

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