zephyr

1. (intransitive, poetic) To blow or move like a zephyr, or light breeze.Examples: "There was a time When the soft zephyring spring came joyfully, Like a young bride, with bloom upon her cheek—"; "There was a sudden scrambling and thumping overhead and hot exclamations zephyred down to them."; "But there was a new afflation— / An aura zephyring round, / That care infected not: [...]"intransitivepoetic

2. (transitive, poetic) To blow or blow on gently like a zephyr; to cool or refresh with a gentle breeze.Examples: "1849, letter from Leonidas Lent Hamline dated 15 December, 1849, in Walter Clark Palmer, Life and Letters of Leonidas L. Hamline, D.D., New York: Carlton & Porter, 1866, Chapter 15, p. 361, He was a fragrant poison, a zephyred pestilence spread through all the city."; "1914, Leonard Lanson Cline, untitled sonnet in Poems, Boston: The Poet Lore Company, p. 76, Ah, but the skies are joyous in the spring, From dawn to dusk exuberantly blue; White-tufted oftentimes with clouds that do But wanton in heaven’s zephyred merrying!"; "1914, Juliane Paulsen (pseudonym of Juliane Grace Hansen), “Poppy Fantasy” in And Then Came Spring, Boston: The Gorham Press, p. 49, Oh, graciously she led my soul within Where ever and forever went a wind In zephyred streams of poppies coursing sweet About the place, and waves of poppy heat About us there."poetictransitive