zephyrhttp://www.oed.com/dictionary/zephyr_v%3Ftab%3Dmeaning_and_usezephyr, v.
Revised 2018

zephyrverb

  1. 1829–
    intransitive. Of a wind: to blow gently or mildly. In extended use: to move gently or softly in the manner of a breeze; to waft, to drift. Cf. breeze v.2
    In quot. 1829 transitive: to blow on gently or mildly.
    1. 1829
      Mr. Windham in Air-street gets zephyred to rest.
      Universal Songster vol. II. 307/2
    2. 1879
      He has often in his sleep talked of ‘blue doctors’,..these sounds having been heard in the small hours of the morning zephyring from his tent with nasal accompaniments.
      R. T. Pritchett, Gamle Norge: Rambles & Scrambles in Norway 26
    3. 1903
      A traveling man who zephyred into Washington the other day.
      Washington Post 17 May e5
    4. 1922
      An aura zephyring round, That care infected not.
      T. Hardy, Late Lyrics & Earlier 111
    5. 1973
      A light little breeze zephyred in..from the open water.
      J. Jones, Touch of Danger xxiii. 131
    6. 2012
      I am benefitting from the gentle breeze zephyring though the pretty planting of the window box.
      Business & Finance Magazine (Nexis) 8 August

zephyr, v. was revised in June 2018.

zephyr, v. was last modified in June 2025.