[f. as prec. + -ING2.] That exhales; in senses of the verb. lit. and fig.
1660. Boyle, New Exp. Phys.-Mech., xxii. 178. The exhaling and imprison’d steams.
1765. Hamilton, in Phil. Trans., LV. 154. Evaporation is vastly promoted by a current of fresh air passing over the exhaling surface.
1767. Gooch, Treat. Wounds, I. 289. Moisture, by the exhaling vessels, may be conveyed to the extravasated fluids.
1811. Pinkerton, Petral., II. 357. The extreme violence of the wind, and the exhaling fumes, prevented him from approaching the upper crater.
1890. Spectator, 15 March, 368/1. An ever-dwindling and exhaling experience of the conscience.
