flabrum

flābrum, ī, n. (flo), das Blasen, Wehen des Windes, cum aër calidus flabro movetur, Macr. 7, 8, 14: gew. im Plur. (s. Serv. Verg. georg. 2, 293), Lucr., Verg. u.a. Dichter.

flabrum [CL] 1 (pl. only) gust or blast of wind. c675 contra gelida brumarum ~a e climate olim septentrionali emergentia Aldh. Ep. 3; mutatione ~orum vel nubium Bede TR 25; licet irruat aequora ventus, / saeviat aut pelagus validis motabile flabris Hwætberht Aen. 54 (Ochenaus piscis) 4; extensaque avidis volitabant carbasa flabris Mir. Nin. 32; vultusque minaces / per tenebras animam terrebant agmine spisso / diversisque modis agitabant turbida flabra Æthelwulf Abb. 328; in cacumine vero montis silva crebris frondibus ventorum ~a suscipit Ord. Vit. III 5 p. 71; vela tandem nimiis temptationum ~is dissilierant R. Cold. Cuthb. 23; ex quarum nebulis et Vulcanie insule fumo predicens futura ventorum ~a Alb. Lond. DG 4. 10. 2 a bellows. b fan. a GlH F 402 (v. 2 flamen 1a); Eolus ‥ tenens sub pedibus ~a, instrumenta fabrilia Deorum Imag. 13.  b a flee flape, flabellum, ~um, muscarium, muscularium CathA.