exhalation (n.)
meteor, shooting star
H8 III.ii.226[Wolsey alone] I shall fall / Like a bright exhalation in the evening
JC II.i.44[Brutus alone] The exhalations, whizzing in the air, / Give so much light that I may read by them
KJ III.iv.153[Cardinal Pandulph to Lewis the Dauphin, of King John and the people] No natural exhalation in the sky ... / But they will pluck away his natural cause / And call them meteors, prodigies and signs
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