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Ciliated :: Ciliated (a.) Provided with, or surrounded by, cilia; as, a ciliate leaf; endowed with vibratory motion; as, the ciliated epithelium of the windpipe..

Screen :: Screen (v. t.) To provide with a shelter or means of concealment; to separate or cut off from inconvenience, injury, or danger; to shelter; to protect; to protect by hiding; to conceal; as, fruits screened from cold winds by a forest or hill..

Indenture :: Indenture (v. i.) To run or wind in and out; to be cut or notched; to indent.

Came :: Came (n.) A slender rod of cast lead, with or without grooves, used, in casements and stained-glass windows, to hold together the panes or pieces of glass..

Anemograph :: Anemograph (n.) An instrument for measuring and recording the direction and force of the wind.

Afore :: Afore (prep.) Before; in front of; farther forward than; as, afore the windlass..

Meander :: Meander (n.) A winding, crooked, or involved course; as, the meanders of the veins and arteries..

Short-winded :: Short-winded (a.) Affected with shortness of breath; having a quick, difficult respiration, as dyspnoic and asthmatic persons..

Sail :: Sail (n.) The extended surface of the arm of a windmill.

Meander :: Meander (v. t.) To wind, turn, or twist; to make flexuous..

Rackett :: Rackett (n.) An old wind instrument of the double bassoon kind, having ventages but not keys..

Rig :: Rig (n.) A blast of wind.

Lee :: Lee (n.) A sheltered place; esp., a place protected from the wind by some object; the side sheltered from the wind; shelter; protection; as, the lee of a mountain, an island, or a ship..

Moonsail :: Moonsail (n.) A sail sometimes carried in light winds, above a skysail..

Choke :: Choke (n.) A stoppage or irritation of the windpipe, producing the feeling of strangulation..

Hug :: Hug (v. t.) To keep close to; as, to hug the land; to hug the wind..

Winding :: Winding (n.) A turn or turning; a bend; a curve; flexure; meander; as, the windings of a road or stream..

Fordwine :: Fordwine (v. i.) To dwindle away; to disappear.

Choke :: Choke (v. i.) To have the windpipe stopped; to have a spasm of the throat, caused by stoppage or irritation of the windpipe; to be strangled..

Spinner :: Spinnaker (n.) A large triangular sail set upon a boom, -- used when running before the wind..

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