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Swine :: Swindlery (n.) Swindling; rougery.

Haar :: Haar (n.) A fog; esp., a fog or mist with a chill wind..

Winder :: Winder (n.) An apparatus used for winding silk, cotton, etc., on spools, bobbins, reels, or the like..

Stowce :: Stowce (n.) A windlass.

Stifle :: Stifle (v. t.) To stop the breath of by crowding something into the windpipe, or introducing an irrespirable substance into the lungs; to choke; to suffocate; to cause the death of by such means; as, to stifle one with smoke or dust..

Bunker :: Bunker (n.) A sort of chest or box, as in a window, the lid of which serves for a seat..

Reef :: Reef (v. t.) That part of a sail which is taken in or let out by means of the reef points, in order to adapt the size of the sail to the force of the wind..

Querl :: Querl (v. t.) To twirl; to turn or wind round; to coil; as, to querl a cord, thread, or rope..

Windrowed :: Windrowed (imp. & p. p.) of Windro.

Sash :: Sash (v. t.) To furnish with a sash or sashes; as, to sash a door or a window..

Tack :: Tack (v. t.) The direction of a vessel in regard to the trim of her sails; as, the starboard tack, or port tack; -- the former when she is closehauled with the wind on her starboard side; hence, the run of a vessel on one tack; also, a change of direction..

Flaw :: Flaw (n.) A sudden burst or gust of wind of short duration.

Tongue :: Tongue (v. t.) To modulate or modify with the tongue, as notes, in playing the flute and some other wind instruments..

Ructation :: Ructation (n.) The act of belching wind.

Wind-plant :: Wind-plant (n.) A windflower.

Squill :: Squilgee (n.) Formerly, a small swab for drying a vessel's deck; now, a kind of scraper having a blade or edge of rubber or of leather, -- used for removing superfluous, water or other liquids, as from a vessel's deck after washing, from window panes, photographer's plates, etc..

Mistral :: Mistral (n.) A violent and cold northwest wind experienced in the Mediterranean provinces of France, etc..

Windage :: Windage (n.) The sudden compression of the air caused by a projectile in passing close to another body.

Ventosity :: Ventosity (n.) Quality or state of being ventose; windiness; hence, vainglory; pride..

Favonian :: Favonian (a.) Pertaining to the west wind; soft; mild; gentle.

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