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Light air   /laɪt ɛr/   Listen
Light air

noun
1.
Wind moving 1-3 knots; 1 on the Beaufort scale.





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"Light air" Quotes from Famous Books



... intensely hot, but the light air was beginning to flow a bit refreshingly out of the sky. A gray cloud-wave, creeping tide-like up from the southwest, was tempering the afternoon glare. In all the landscape the only object to hold ...
— Winning the Wilderness • Margaret Hill McCarter
... Or as when a bird hath flown through the air, there is no token of her way to be found, but the light air being beaten with the stroke of her wings and parted with the violent noise and motion of them, is passed through, and therein afterwards no sign where she went is ...
— Deuteronomical Books of the Bible - Apocrypha • Anonymous
... those who love their lords, or they Who love the lords of others? such have been Even in the olden time, Rome's annals say. Was she a matron of Cornelia's mien, Or the light air of Egypt's graceful queen, Profuse of joy; or 'gainst it did she war, Inveterate in virtue? Did she lean To the soft side of the heart, or wisely bar Love from amongst her griefs?—for ...
— Childe Harold's Pilgrimage • Lord Byron
... At daylight, on January 13, we were again under way, with a light air, and at nine o'clock reached the roadstead, where we anchored in six fathoms water, with good holding-ground. Being anxious to obtain our letters, which, we were informed at Oahu, had been sent to Manila, I immediately dispatched two boats to procure them. On ...
— The Former Philippines thru Foreign Eyes • Fedor Jagor; Tomas de Comyn; Chas. Wilkes; Rudolf Virchow.
... relief to be out again in the sunshine and the light air, to see the Dordogne flashing through meadows where women were haymaking with ...
— Two Summers in Guyenne • Edward Harrison Barker


Words linked to "Light air" :   Beaufort scale, zephyr, breeze, gentle wind, air, wind scale


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