Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for AN-HE-LA'TION
AN-HE-LA'TION, n. [L. anhelo, to pant, or breathe with difficulty; from halo, to breathe.]
Shortness of breath; a panting; difficult respiration, without fever, or with a sense of suffocation. – Encyc. Coxe.
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