Definition of wind

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Wind (n.) Power of respiration; breath.

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Rig :: Rig (n.) A blast of wind.
Summer :: Summer (n.) A large stone or beam placed horizontally on columns, piers, posts, or the like, serving for various uses. Specifically: (a) The lintel of a door or window. (b) The commencement of a cross vault. (c) A central floor timber, as a girder, or a piece reaching from a wall to a girder. Called also summertree..
Thorough-lighted :: Thorough-lighted (a.) Provided with thorough lights or windows at opposite sides, as a room or building..
Woolding :: Woolding (n.) The act of winding or wrapping anything with a rope, as a mast..
Dry :: Dry (a.) To make dry; to free from water, or from moisture of any kind, and by any means; to exsiccate; as, to dry the eyes; to dry one's tears; the wind dries the earth; to dry a wet cloth; to dry hay..
Afer :: Afer (n.) The southwest wind.
Vane :: Vane (n.) Any flat, extended surface attached to an axis and moved by the wind; as, the vane of a windmill; hence, a similar fixture of any form moved in or by water, air, or other fluid; as, the vane of a screw propeller, a fan blower, an anemometer, etc..
Lightroom :: Lightroom (n.) A small room from which the magazine of a naval vessel is lighted, being separated from the magazine by heavy glass windows..
Boreas :: Boreas (n.) The north wind; -- usually a personification.
Thick Wind :: Thick wind () A defect of respiration in a horse, that is unassociated with noise in breathing or with the signs of emphysema..
Lantern :: Lantern (n.) Something inclosing a light, and protecting it from wind, rain, etc. ; -- sometimes portable, as a closed vessel or case of horn, perforated tin, glass, oiled paper, or other material, having a lamp or candle within; sometimes fixed, as the glazed inclosure of a street light, or of a lighthouse light..
Spinner :: Spinnaker (n.) A large triangular sail set upon a boom, -- used when running before the wind..
Slat :: Slat (n.) A thin, narrow strip or bar of wood or metal; as, the slats of a window blind..
Windowed :: Windowed (a.) Having windows or openings.
Serpentry :: Serpentry (n.) A winding like a serpent's.
Vapor :: Vapor (n.) Wind; flatulence.
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..
Durance :: Durance (n.) In modern manufacture, a worsted of one color used for window blinds and similar purposes..
Enwind :: Enwind (v. t.) To wind about; to encircle.
Horner :: Horner (n.) One who winds or blows the horn.
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