Definition of wind

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Wind (n.) The act of winding or turning; a turn; a bend; a twist; a winding.

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Woolding :: Woolding (n.) The act of winding or wrapping anything with a rope, as a mast..
Oculus :: Oculus (n.) A round window, usually a small one..
Boreal :: Boreal (a.) Northern; pertaining to the north, or to the north wind; as, a boreal bird; a boreal blast..
Samiel :: Samiel (n.) A hot and destructive wind that sometimes blows, in Turkey, from the desert. It is identical with the simoom of Arabia and the kamsin of Syria..
Chouse :: Chouse (n.) A swindler.
Vane :: Vane (n.) A contrivance attached to some elevated object for the purpose of showing which way the wind blows; a weathercock. It is usually a plate or strip of metal, or slip of wood, often cut into some fanciful form, and placed upon a perpendicular axis around which it moves freely..
Reel :: Reel (v. t.) To wind upon a reel, as yarn or thread..
Broken-winded :: Broken-winded (a.) Having short breath or disordered respiration, as a horse..
Mullion :: Mullion (n.) A slender bar or pier which forms the division between the lights of windows, screens, etc..
Cutting :: Cutting (a.) Chilling; penetrating; sharp; as, a cutting wind..
Lucarne :: Lucarne (n.) A dormer window.
Pallet :: Pallet (n.) In the organ, a valve between the wind chest and the mouth of a pipe or row of pipes..
Sinuous :: Sinuous (a.) Bending in and out; of a serpentine or undulating form; winding; crooked.
Wrap :: Wrap (v. t.) To wind or fold together; to arrange in folds.
Newel :: Newel (n.) The upright post about which the steps of a circular staircase wind; hence, in stairs having straight flights, the principal post at the foot of a staircase, or the secondary ones at the landings. See Hollow newel, under Hollow..
Trade :: Trade (v.) The trade winds.
Bubble :: Bubble (n.) A globule of air, or globular vacuum, in a transparent solid; as, bubbles in window glass, or in a lens..
Wind :: Wind (n.) Air naturally in motion with any degree of velocity; a current of air.
Anemorphilous :: Anemorphilous (a.) Fertilized by the agency of the wind; -- said of plants in which the pollen is carried to the stigma by the wind; wind-Fertilized.
Cervelat :: Cervelat (n.) An ancient wind instrument, resembling the bassoon in tone..
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