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- English Word Wind Definition Power of respiration; breath.
- English Word Wind Definition Air or gas generated in the stomach or bowels; flatulence; as, to be troubled with wind.
- English Word Wind Definition Air impregnated with an odor or scent.
- English Word Wind Definition A direction from which the wind may blow; a point of the compass; especially, one of the cardinal points, which are often called the four winds.
- English Word Wind Definition A disease of sheep, in which the intestines are distended with air, or rather affected with a violent inflammation. It occurs immediately after shearing.
- English Word Wind Definition Mere breath or talk; empty effort; idle words.
- English Word Wind Definition The dotterel.
- English Word Wind Definition To expose to the wind; to winnow; to ventilate.
- English Word Wind Definition To perceive or follow by the scent; to scent; to nose; as, the hounds winded the game.
- English Word Wind Definition To drive hard, or force to violent exertion, as a horse, so as to render scant of wind; to put out of breath.
- English Word Wind Definition To rest, as a horse, in order to allow the breath to be recovered; to breathe.
- English Word Wind Definition To blow; to sound by blowing; esp., to sound with prolonged and mutually involved notes.
- English Word Wind-break Definition To break the wind of; to cause to lose breath; to exhaust.
- English Word Wind-break Definition A clump of trees serving for a protection against the force of wind.
- English Word Wind-broken Definition Having the power of breathing impaired by the rupture, dilatation, or running together of air cells of the lungs, so that while the inspiration is by one effort, the expiration is by two; affected with pulmonary emphysema or with heaves; -- said of a horse.
- English Word Wind-fertilized Definition Anemophilous; fertilized by pollen borne by the wind.
- English Word Wind-plant Definition A windflower.
- English Word Wind-rode Definition Caused to ride or drive by the wind in opposition to the course of the tide; -- said of a vessel lying at anchor, with wind and tide opposed to each other.
- English Word Wind-sucker Definition A horse given to wind-sucking
- English Word Wind-sucker Definition The kestrel.
- English Word Wind-sucking Definition A vicious habit of a horse, consisting in the swallowing of air; -- usually associated with crib-biting, or cribbing. See Cribbing, 4.
- English Word Windage Definition The difference between the diameter of the bore of a gun and that of the shot fired from it.
- English Word Windage Definition The sudden compression of the air caused by a projectile in passing close to another body.
- English Word Windas Definition See 3d Windlass.
- English Word Windbore Definition The lower, or bottom, pipe in a lift of pumps in a mine.
- English Word Windbound Definition prevented from sailing, by a contrary wind. See Weatherbound.
- English Word Winded Definition of Wind
- English Word Winded Definition of Wind
- English Word Winded Definition of Wind
- English Word Winder Definition One who, or that which, winds; hence, a creeping or winding plant.