Definition of wind

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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..

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Worm :: Worm (n.) To wind rope, yarn, or other material, spirally round, between the strands of, as a cable; to wind with spun yarn, as a small rope..
Winnew :: Winnew (n.) To separate, and drive off, the chaff from by means of wind; to fan; as, to winnow grain..
Flatus :: Flatus (n.) A breath; a puff of wind.
Casing :: Casing (n.) An inclosing frame; esp. the framework around a door or a window. See Case, n., 4..
Squally :: Squally (a.) Abounding with squalls; disturbed often with sudden and violent gusts of wind; gusty; as, squally weather..
Kink :: Kink (v. i.) To wind into a kink; to knot or twist spontaneously upon itself, as a rope or thread..
Eructation :: Eructation (n.) The act of belching wind from the stomach; a belch.
Gybe :: Gybe (v. t. & i.) To shift from one side of a vessel to the other; -- said of the boom of a fore-and-aft sail when the vessel is steered off the wind until the sail fills on the opposite side.
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..
Calm :: Calm (super.) Not stormy; without motion, as of winds or waves; still; quiet; serene; undisturbed..
Windage :: Windage (n.) The difference between the diameter of the bore of a gun and that of the shot fired from it.
Bubble :: Bubble (n.) A globule of air, or globular vacuum, in a transparent solid; as, bubbles in window glass, or in a lens..
Dormer Window :: Dormer window (n.) A window pierced in a roof, and so set as to be vertical while the roof slopes away from it. Also, the gablet, or houselike structure, in which it is contained..
Hyperthyrion :: Hyperthyrion (n.) That part of the architrave which is over a door or window.
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..
Shifting :: Shifting (a.) Changing in place, position, or direction; varying; variable; fickle; as, shifting winds; shifting opinions or principles..
Tatta :: Tatta (n.) A bamboo frame or trellis hung at a door or window of a house, over which water is suffered to trickle, in order to moisten and cool the air as it enters..
Window :: Window (n.) The shutter, casement, sash with its fittings, or other framework, which closes a window opening..
Ahold :: Ahold (adv.) Near the wind; as, to lay a ship ahold..
Turnpike :: Turnpike (n.) A winding stairway.
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