air braving

Braving the air, the wind, or the tempest. your stately and air - braring towers." Shakesp.: Henry VI., Pt. 1., iv. 2. air-breathers, s. pl. Animals breathing air. "Dr. Dawson's Memoir on Air -breathers of the Coal-period."-Q. Journ, of Science (1864), p. 675. air-breathing, a . Breathing air: applied to terrestrial members of the animal kingdom, in contradistinction to fishes, which breathe by gills. the earliest trace of warm-blooded, air breathing viviparous quadrupeds."-Owen: British Fo il Mammals and Birds , p. xiii.