Exhalation
Exhalation , noun
[Latin exhalatio: compare French exhalaison, exhalation.]
1.
The act or process of exhaling, or sending forth in the form of steam or vapor; evaporation.
2.
That which is exhaled, or which rises in the form of vapor, fume, or steam; effluvium; emanation; as, exhalations from the earth or flowers, decaying matter, etc.
Ye mists and exhalations, that now rise
From hill or steaming lake.
3.
A bright phenomenon; a meteor. [archaic]
I shall fall
Like a bright exhalation in the evening.