Definition of wind

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Wind (v. t.) To perceive or follow by the scent; to scent; to nose; as, the hounds winded the game..

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Do :: Do (n.) A cheat; a swindle.
Air :: Air (n.) Air in motion; a light breeze; a gentle wind.
Ambages :: Ambages (n. pl.) A circuit; a winding. Hence: Circuitous way or proceeding; quibble; circumlocution; indirect mode of speech.
Blore :: Blore (n.) The act of blowing; a roaring wind; a blast.
Case :: Case (n.) An inclosing frame; a casing; as, a door case; a window case..
Convolve :: Convolve (v. t.) To roll or wind together; to roll or twist one part on another.
Hug :: Hug (v. t.) To keep close to; as, to hug the land; to hug the wind..
Cornemuse :: Cornemuse (n.) A wind instrument nearly identical with the bagpipe.
Sinuate :: Sinuate (v. i.) To bend or curve in and out; to wind; to turn; to be sinusous.
Student :: Studding sail () A light sail set at the side of a principal or square sail of a vessel in free winds, to increase her speed. Its head is bent to a small spar which is called the studding-sail boom. See Illust. of Sail..
Windle :: Windle (n.) The redwing.
Catherine Wheel :: Catherine wheel () Same as Rose window and Wheel window. Called also Catherine-wheel window.
Twist :: Twist (v. t.) Hence, to form as if by winding one part around another; to wreathe; to make up..
Kite :: Kite (n.) A lofty sail, carried only when the wind is light..
Kink :: Kink (v. i.) To wind into a kink; to knot or twist spontaneously upon itself, as a rope or thread..
Anfracture :: Anfracture (n.) A mazy winding.
Convolution :: Convolution (n.) The act of rolling anything upon itself, or one thing upon another; a winding motion..
Stem-winding :: Stem-winder (n.) A stem-winding watch.
Curl :: Curl (v.) A ringlet, especially of hair; anything of a spiral or winding form..
Wreck :: Wreck (v. t.) The destruction or injury of a vessel by being cast on shore, or on rocks, or by being disabled or sunk by the force of winds or waves; shipwreck..
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