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(rare, nonstandard, intransitive) To grow or develop into a breeze; be or become breezy.
We're going to have a brush out of this, and resk it, you!" declared Job, beating his hat against the counter inside. "It's thick o' snow a'ready, and breezening on stiddy from out here to the s'utheast."
This wind breezens on at every hand's turn now, and I wisht I could know for certain whether Uncle Pelly made out to pull them trawls of hisn, out there on the 'Garden' to-day.
'T wa'n't so very long neither afore she was carrying consid'ble of a bone in her teeth, for quick's ever the wind really once took holt to the east'ard, it breezened up quite fast, and kept pricking on all night steady, and all next day long, till come sundown again it took three men at the hellum to gurge her along, and the sweat dreened off'n the chins of them three a-near one perfect stream!
[…] it then breezens up, it is too much of a good thing.
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Breezen means (rare, nonstandard, intransitive) To grow or develop into a breeze; be or become breezy.
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We're going to have a brush out of this, and resk it, you!" declared Job, beating his hat against the counter inside. "It's thick o' snow a'ready, and breezening on stiddy from out here to the s'utheast."
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