a. [f. BREATH + -FUL.] Full of breath or air; having breath or life, alive; breathing perfume, redolent, odorous.
1583. Stanyhurst, Æneis, III. (Arb.), 81. How fares Ascanius? doth he live, and breathful abideth?
1590. Spenser, Muiopot., 195. Fresh Costmarie, and breathfull Camomill. Ibid. (1596), F. Q., IV. v. 38. The breathfull bellows blew amaine.
1593. Barnes, Parthen., in Arb., Garner, V. 350. Waste breathless words! and breathful sighs increase!
