Wind (n.) Breath modulated by the respiratory and vocal organs, or by an instrument.
Wind (n.) Power of respiration; breath.
Wind (n.) Air or gas generated in the stomach or bowels; flatulence; as, to be troubled with wind.
Wind (n.) Air impregnated with an odor or scent.
Wind (n.) A direction from which the wind may blow; a point of the compass; especially, one of the cardinal points, which are often called the four winds.
Wind (n.) A disease of sheep, in which the intestines are distended with air, or rather affected with a violent inflammation. It occurs immediately after shearing.
Wind (n.) Mere breath or talk; empty effort; idle words.
Wind (n.) The dotterel.
Winded (imp. & p. p.) of Wind
Winding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Wind
Wind (v. t.) To expose to the wind; to winnow; to ventilate.
Wind (v. t.) To perceive or follow by the scent; to scent; to nose; as, the hounds winded the game.
Wind (v. t.) To drive hard, or force to violent exertion, as a horse, so as to render scant of wind; to put out of breath.
Wind (v. t.) To rest, as a horse, in order to allow the breath to be recovered; to breathe.
Wound (imp. & p. p.) of Wind
Winded () of Wind
Winding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Wind
Wind (v. t.) To blow; to sound by blowing; esp., to sound with prolonged and mutually involved notes.
Windage (n.) The difference between the diameter of the bore of a gun and that of the shot fired from it.
Windage (n.) The sudden compression of the air caused by a projectile in passing close to another body.
Windas (n.) See 3d Windlass.
Windbore (n.) The lower, or bottom, pipe in a lift of pumps in a mine.
Windbound (a.) prevented from sailing, by a contrary wind. See Weatherbound.
Wind-break (v. t.) To break the wind of; to cause to lose breath; to exhaust.
Wind-break (n.) A clump of trees serving for a protection against the force of wind.
Wind-broken (a.) Having the power of breathing impaired by the rupture, dilatation, or running together of air cells of the lungs, so that while the inspiration is by one effort, the expiration is by two; affected with pulmonary emphysema or with heaves; -- said of a horse.
Winder (n.) One who, or that which, winds; hence, a creeping or winding plant.
Winder (n.) An apparatus used for winding silk, cotton, etc., on spools, bobbins, reels, or the like.
Winder (n.) One in a flight of steps which are curved in plan, so that each tread is broader at one end than at the other; -- distinguished from flyer.
Winder (v. t. & i.) To fan; to clean grain with a fan.
Winder (n.) A blow taking away the breath.
Winder (v. i.) To wither; to fail.
Windfall (n.) Anything blown down or off by the wind, as fruit from a tree, or the tree itself, or a portion of a forest prostrated by a violent wind, etc.
Windfall (n.) An unexpected legacy, or other gain.
Windfallen (a.) Blown down by the wind.
Wind-fertilized (a.) Anemophilous; fertilized by pollen borne by the wind.
Windflower (n.) The anemone; -- so called because formerly supposed to open only when the wind was blowing. See Anemone.
Windgall (n.) A soft tumor or synovial swelling on the fetlock joint of a horse; -- so called from having formerly been supposed to contain air.
Windhover (n.) The kestrel; -- called also windbibber, windcuffer, windfanner.
Windiness (n.) The quality or state of being windy or tempestuous; as, the windiness of the weather or the season.
Windiness (n.) Fullness of wind; flatulence.
Windiness (n.) Tendency to generate wind or gas; tendency to produce flatulence; as, the windiness of vegetables.
Windiness (n.) Tumor; puffiness.
Winding (n.) A call by the boatswain's whistle.
Winding (a.) Twisting from a direct line or an even surface; circuitous.
Winding (n.) A turn or turning; a bend; a curve; flexure; meander; as, the windings of a road or stream.
Winding (n.) A line- or ribbon-shaped material (as wire, string, or bandaging) wound around an object; as, the windings (conducting wires) wound around the armature of an electric motor or generator.
Windingly (adv.) In a winding manner.
Windlace (n. & v.) See Windlass.
Windlass (n.) A winding and circuitous way; a roundabout course; a shift.
Windlass (v. i.) To take a roundabout course; to work warily or by indirect means.
Windlass (n.) A machine for raising weights, consisting of a horizontal cylinder or roller moving on its axis, and turned by a crank, lever, or similar means, so as to wind up a rope or chain attached to the weight. In vessels the windlass is often used instead of the capstan for raising the anchor. It is usually set upon the forecastle, and is worked by hand or steam.
Windlass (n.) An apparatus resembling a winch or windlass, for bending the bow of an arblast, or crossbow.
Windlass (v. t. & i.) To raise with, or as with, a windlass; to use a windlass.
Windle (n.) A spindle; a kind of reel; a winch.
Windle (n.) The redwing.
Windless (a.) Having no wind; calm.
Windless (a.) Wanting wind; out of breath.
Windlestrae (n.) Alt. of Windlestraw
Windlestraw (n.) A grass used for making ropes or for plaiting, esp. Agrostis Spica-ventis.
Windmill (n.) A mill operated by the power of the wind, usually by the action of the wind upon oblique vanes or sails which radiate from a horizontal shaft.
Windore (n.) A window.
Window (n.) An opening in the wall of a building for the admission of light and air, usually closed by casements or sashes containing some transparent material, as glass, and capable of being opened and shut at pleasure.
Window (n.) The shutter, casement, sash with its fittings, or other framework, which closes a window opening.
Window (n.) A figure formed of lines crossing each other.
Windowed (imp. & p. p.) of Window
Windowing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Window
Window (v. t.) To furnish with windows.
Window (v. t.) To place at or in a window.
Windowed (a.) Having windows or openings.
Windowless (a.) Destitute of a window.
Windowpane (n.) See Pane, n., (3) b.
Windowpane (n.) A thin, spotted American turbot (Pleuronectes maculatus) remarkable for its translucency. It is not valued as a food fish. Called also spotted turbot, daylight, spotted sand flounder, and water flounder.
Windowy (a.) Having little crossings or openings like the sashes of a window.
Windpipe (n.) The passage for the breath from the larynx to the lungs; the trachea; the weasand. See Illust. under Lung.
Wind-plant (n.) A windflower.
Wind-rode (a.) Caused to ride or drive by the wind in opposition to the course of the tide; -- said of a vessel lying at anchor, with wind and tide opposed to each other.
Windrow (n.) A row or line of hay raked together for the purpose of being rolled into cocks or heaps.
Windrow (n.) Sheaves of grain set up in a row, one against another, that the wind may blow between them.
Windrow (n.) The green border of a field, dug up in order to carry the earth on other land to mend it.
Windrowed (imp. & p. p.) of Windrow
Windrowing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Windrow
Windrow (v. t.) To arrange in lines or windrows, as hay when newly made.
Windsor (n.) A town in Berkshire, England.
Windstorm (n.) A storm characterized by high wind with little or no rain.
Wind-sucker (n.) A horse given to wind-sucking
Wind-sucker (n.) The kestrel.
Wind-sucking (n.) A vicious habit of a horse, consisting in the swallowing of air; -- usually associated with crib-biting, or cribbing. See Cribbing, 4.
Windtight (a.) So tight as to prevent the passing through of wind.
Windward (n.) The point or side from which the wind blows; as, to ply to the windward; -- opposed to leeward.
Windward (a.) Situated toward the point from which the wind blows; as, the Windward Islands.
Windward (adv.) Toward the wind; in the direction from which the wind blows.
Windy (superl.) Consisting of wind; accompanied or characterized by wind; exposed to wind.
Windy (superl.) Next the wind; windward.
Windy (superl.) Tempestuous; boisterous; as, windy weather.
Windy (superl.) Serving to occasion wind or gas in the intestines; flatulent; as, windy food.
Windy (superl.) Attended or caused by wind, or gas, in the intestines.
Windy (superl.) Fig.: Empty; airy.
Wine (n.) The expressed juice of grapes, esp. when fermented; a beverage or liquor prepared from grapes by squeezing out their juice, and (usually) allowing it to ferment.
Wine (n.) A liquor or beverage prepared from the juice of any fruit or plant by a process similar to that for grape wine; as, currant wine; gooseberry wine; palm wine.