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Round :: Round (prep.) On every side of, so as to encompass or encircle; around; about; as, the people atood round him; to go round the city; to wind a cable round a windlass..

Governing :: Governing (a.) Holding the superiority; prevalent; controlling; as, a governing wind; a governing party in a state..

Telltale :: Telltale (n.) A movable piece of ivory, lead, or other material, connected with the bellows of an organ, that gives notice, by its position, when the wind is exhausted..

Bine :: Bine (n.) The winding or twining stem of a hop vine or other climbing plant.

Quarrel :: Quarrel (n.) A small opening in window tracery, of which the cusps, etc., make the form nearly square..

Wind-break :: Wind-break (v. t.) To break the wind of; to cause to lose breath; to exhaust.

Whirlwind :: Whirlwind (n.) A violent windstorm of limited extent, as the tornado, characterized by an inward spiral motion of the air with an upward current in the center; a vortex of air. It usually has a rapid progressive motion..

Gardyloo :: Gardyloo (n.) An old cry in throwing water, slops, etc., from the windows in Edingburgh..

Windpipe :: Windpipe (n.) The passage for the breath from the larynx to the lungs; the trachea; the weasand. See Illust. under Lung.

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

Harmoniphon :: Harmoniphon (n.) An obsolete wind instrument with a keyboard, in which the sound, which resembled the oboe, was produced by the vibration of thin metallic plates, acted upon by blowing through a tube..

Blow :: Blow (n.) A blowing, esp., a violent blowing of the wind; a gale; as, a heavy blow came on, and the ship put back to port..

Squally :: Squally (a.) Abounding with squalls; disturbed often with sudden and violent gusts of wind; gusty; as, squally weather..

Fenestral :: Fenestral (a.) Pertaining to a window or to windows.

Bogue :: Bogue (v. i.) To fall off from the wind; to edge away to leeward; -- said only of inferior craft.

Sheet :: Sheet (v. t.) A rope or chain which regulates the angle of adjustment of a sail in relation in relation to the wind; -- usually attached to the lower corner of a sail, or to a yard or a boom..

Gin :: Gin (n.) A machine for raising or moving heavy weights, consisting of a tripod formed of poles united at the top, with a windlass, pulleys, ropes, etc..

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

Borborygm :: Borborygm (n.) A rumbling or gurgling noise produced by wind in the bowels.

Blast :: Blast (v. t.) To injure, as by a noxious wind; to cause to wither; to stop or check the growth of, and prevent from fruit-bearing, by some pernicious influence; to blight; to shrivel..

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