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  • English Word Win Definition To extract, as ore or coal.
  • English Word Win Definition To gain the victory; to be successful; to triumph; to prevail.
  • English Word Wince Definition To shrink, as from a blow, or from pain; to flinch; to start back.
  • English Word Wince Definition To kick or flounce when unsteady, or impatient at a rider; as, a horse winces.
  • English Word Wince Definition The act of one who winces.
  • English Word Wince Definition A reel used in dyeing, steeping, or washing cloth; a winch. It is placed over the division wall between two wince pits so as to allow the cloth to descend into either compartment. at will.
  • English Word Winced Definition of Wince
  • English Word Wincer Definition One who, or that which, winces, shrinks, or kicks.
  • English Word Wincey Definition Linsey-woolsey.
  • English Word Winch Definition To wince; to shrink; to kick with impatience or uneasiness.
  • English Word Winch Definition A kick, as of a beast, from impatience or uneasiness.
  • English Word Winch Definition A crank with a handle, for giving motion to a machine, a grindstone, etc.
  • English Word Winch Definition An instrument with which to turn or strain something forcibly.
  • English Word Winch Definition An axle or drum turned by a crank with a handle, or by power, for raising weights, as from the hold of a ship, from mines, etc.; a windlass.
  • English Word Winch Definition A wince.
  • English Word Wincing Definition of Wince
  • English Word Wincing Definition The act of washing cloth, dipping it in dye, etc., with a wince.
  • English Word Wincopipe Definition A little red flower, no doubt the pimpernel, which, when it opens in the morning, is supposed to bode a fair day. See Pimpernel.
  • English Word Wind Definition To turn completely, or with repeated turns; especially, to turn about something fixed; to cause to form convolutions about anything; to coil; to twine; to twist; to wreathe; as, to wind thread on a spool or into a ball.
  • English Word Wind Definition To entwist; to infold; to encircle.
  • English Word Wind Definition To have complete control over; to turn and bend at one's pleasure; to vary or alter or will; to regulate; to govern.
  • English Word Wind Definition To introduce by insinuation; to insinuate.
  • English Word Wind Definition To cover or surround with something coiled about; as, to wind a rope with twine.
  • English Word Wind Definition To turn completely or repeatedly; to become coiled about anything; to assume a convolved or spiral form; as, vines wind round a pole.
  • English Word Wind Definition To have a circular course or direction; to crook; to bend; to meander; as, to wind in and out among trees.
  • English Word Wind Definition To go to the one side or the other; to move this way and that; to double on one's course; as, a hare pursued turns and winds.
  • English Word Wind Definition The act of winding or turning; a turn; a bend; a twist; a winding.
  • English Word Wind Definition Air naturally in motion with any degree of velocity; a current of air.
  • English Word Wind Definition Air artificially put in motion by any force or action; as, the wind of a cannon ball; the wind of a bellows.
  • English Word Wind Definition Breath modulated by the respiratory and vocal organs, or by an instrument.