ppl. a. (UNDER-1 4 a. Cf. prec.)
1760–72. H. Brooke, Fool of Qual. (1792), IV. 26. A kind of under-breathing bustle, and whispering commotion.
[In the earlier Wycliffite version of 2 Macc. vii. 5 vndirbrethinge is used to render L. spirantem; the translator probably read suspirantem (cf. UNDER-1 2).]
