Lung

Definitions

1. A surname.
2. A biological organ of vertebrates that controls breathing and oxygenates the blood.
3. Capacity for exercise or exertion; breath.
   in-plural
4. That which supplies oxygen or fresh air, such as trees, parklands, forest, etc., to a place.

Equivalents

Examples

“I made a speaking trumpet of my hands and commenced to whoop “Ahoy!” and “Hello!” at the top of my lungs. […] The Colonel woke up, and, after asking what in brimstone was the matter⟳, opened his mouth and roared “Hi!” and “Hello!” like⟳ the bull of Bashan.”

“He no longer has the lungs to play⟳ long rallies like⟳ he used to.”

“Afterwards he found that the vague feeling of alarm had spread⟳ to the clients of the underground railway, and that the Sunday excursionists began to return⟳ from all the South-Western "lungs" - Barnes, Wimbledon, Richmond Park⟳, Kew, and so forth - at unnaturally early hours[.]”

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