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Freshen :: Freshen (v. i.) To grow brisk or strong; as, the wind freshens..

Vaporous :: Vaporous (a.) Producing vapors; hence, windy; flatulent..

Buffeting :: Buffeting (n.) A succession of blows; continued violence, as of winds or waves; afflictions; adversity..

Heck :: Heck (n.) A bend or winding of a stream.

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

Typhon :: Typhon (n.) According to Hesiod, the son of Typhoeus, and father of the winds, but later identified with him..

Baffling :: Baffling (a.) Frustrating; discomfiting; disconcerting; as, baffling currents, winds, tasks..

Boxhaul :: Boxhaul (v. t.) To put (a vessel) on the other tack by veering her short round on her heel; -- so called from the circumstance of bracing the head yards abox (i. e., sharp aback, on the wind)..

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.

Shipwreck :: Shipwreck (v. t.) To destroy, as a ship at sea, by running ashore or on rocks or sandbanks, or by the force of wind and waves in a tempest..

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..

Unwind :: Unwind (v. t.) To wind off; to loose or separate, as what or convolved; to untwist; to untwine; as, to unwind thread; to unwind a ball of yarn..

Mullion :: Mullion (n.) A slender bar or pier which forms the division between the lights of windows, screens, etc..

Orchestra :: Orchestra (n.) The instruments employed by a full band, collectively; as, an orchestra of forty stringed instruments, with proper complement of wind instruments..

Poop :: Poop (v. i.) To make a noise; to pop; also, to break wind..

Windless :: Windless (a.) Wanting wind; out of breath.

Horner :: Horner (n.) One who winds or blows the horn.

Afer :: Afer (n.) The southwest wind.

Sough :: Sough (v. i.) To whistle or sigh, as the wind..

Flatus :: Flatus (n.) A breath; a puff of wind.

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