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breese
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Breeze \Breeze\, Breeze fly \Breeze" fly`\, n. [OE. brese, AS. bri['o]sa; perh. akin to OHG. brimissa, G. breme, bremse, D. brems, which are akin to G. brummen to growl, buzz, grumble, L. fremere to murmur; cf. G. brausen, Sw. brusa, Dan. bruse, to roar, rush.] (Zo["o]l.) A fly of various species, of the family Tabanid[ae], noted for buzzing about animals, and tormenting them by sucking their blood; -- called also horsefly, and gadfly. They are among the largest of two-winged or dipterous insects. The name is also given to different species of botflies. [Written also breese and brize.]
Wiktionary
n. (obsolete spelling of breeze lang=en nodot=yes) (qualifier: all three distinct nouns).
Gazetteer
Housing Units (2000): 1573
Land area (2000): 2.275280 sq. miles (5.892948 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.025392 sq. miles (0.065764 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 2.300672 sq. miles (5.958712 sq. km)
FIPS code: 07913
Located within: Illinois (IL), FIPS 17
Location: 38.610317 N, 89.526705 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 62230
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Breese
Wikipedia
Breese may refer to:
Breese is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Charles Breese (1889–1941), English naval and air force officer
- Charles Edward Breese (1867–1932), Welsh solicitor, antiquarian and politician
- Clinton S. Breese (fl. 1910s), American army officer
- Dave Breese (1926–2002), American evangelist
- Dilys Breese (1932–2007), English television producer
- Edward Y. Breese (1912–1979), American writer
- Gareth Breese (born 1976), West Indian cricketer
- Kidder Breese (1831–1881), American naval officer
- Llywelyn Breese (fl. 1870s), American politician from Wisconsin
- Quentin Breese (1918–1962), American boxer
- Samuel Livingston Breese (1794–1870), American rear-admiral
- Sidney Breese (1800–1878), American politician from Illinois
- Vance Breese (1904–1973), American aviation engineer and test pilot
- Werner Breese (1913–1995), German pilot
Usage examples of "breese".
Meantime Eros passed unseen through the grey mist, causing confusion, as when against grazing heifers rises the gadfly, which oxherds call the breese.
Take note, ye prudent and pious souls, Of the cross--currents in life Which bring honor to the dead, who lived in shame Judge Somers How does it happen, tell me, That I who was most erudite of lawyers, Who knew Blackstone and Coke Almost by heart, who made the greatest speech The court-house ever heard, and wrote A brief that won the praise of Justice Breese How does it happen, tell me, That I lie here unmarked, forgotten, While Chase Henry, the town drunkard, Has a marble block, topped by an urn Wherein Nature, in a mood ironical, Has sown a flowering weed?
But I am being honest, as I agreed at the start, and now I know, as I sit here with the soft, although chilly breeses of the night blowing on my hot brow, now I know that this thing that has come to me is Love.
Massello's yacht was docked in the Captain's Cove Marina in the southern part of the city, near Point Breese, and a few minutes later, in a car that might generously be called borrowed, they were zipping south along Route 55.