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Lithophane :: Lithophane (n.) Porcelain impressed with figures which are made distinct by transmitted light, -- as when hung in a window, or used as a lamp shade..

Transom :: Transom (n.) A horizontal crossbar in a window, over a door, or between a door and a window above it. Transom is the horizontal, as mullion is the vertical, bar across an opening. See Illust. of Mullion..

Buccinator :: Buccinator (n.) A muscle of the cheek; -- so called from its use in blowing wind instruments.

Plant :: Plant (n.) A plan; an artifice; a swindle; a trick.

Wear :: Wear (v. t.) To cause to go about, as a vessel, by putting the helm up, instead of alee as in tacking, so that the vessel's bow is turned away from, and her stern is presented to, the wind, and, as she turns still farther, her sails fill on the other side; to veer..

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

Levant :: Levant (n.) A levanter (the wind so called).

Liquidator :: Liquidator (n.) An officer appointed to conduct the winding up of a company, to bring and defend actions and suits in its name, and to do all necessary acts on behalf of the company..

Strewed :: Stretto (n.) In an opera or oratorio, a coda, or winding up, in an accelerated time..

Winder :: Winder (n.) One in a flight of steps which are curved in plan, so that each tread is broader at one end than at the other; -- distinguished from flyer..

Wind :: Wind (v. i.) To have a circular course or direction; to crook; to bend; to meander; as, to wind in and out among trees..

Snake :: Snake (v. t.) To wind round spirally, as a large rope with a smaller, or with cord, the small rope lying in the spaces between the strands of the large one; to worm..

Gripe :: Gripe (n.) The compass or sharpness of a ship's stern under the water, having a tendency to make her keep a good wind..

Winding :: Winding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Win.

Bluster :: Bluster (n.) Fitful noise and violence, as of a storm; violent winds; boisterousness..

Windlass :: Windlass (v. i.) To take a roundabout course; to work warily or by indirect means.

Meet :: Meet (v. t.) To come in collision with; to confront in conflict; to encounter hostilely; as, they met the enemy and defeated them; the ship met opposing winds and currents..

Windlace :: Windlace (n. & v.) See Windlass.

Drift :: Drift (v. i.) To accumulate in heaps by the force of wind; to be driven into heaps; as, snow or sand drifts..

Dust :: Dust (n.) Fine, dry particles of earth or other matter, so comminuted that they may be raised and wafted by the wind; that which is crumbled too minute portions; fine powder; as, clouds of dust; bone dust..

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