To send out as breath or as if by breathing; emit an effluence of; give out as vapor, either perceptible or imperceptible: as, marshes exhale noxious effluvia.To draw out as an effluence; cause to be sent out or emitted in vapor; evaporate: as, the sun exhales the moisture of the earth.To draw forth; cause to flow, as blood.To rise or pass off as an effluence; go off in vapor.To hale or drag out.To draw, as a sword.To pass through in the form of drops; ooze: noting especially bleeding from a surface in the absence of any wound.