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Bine :: Bine (n.) The winding or twining stem of a hop vine or other climbing plant.

Wind :: Wind (n.) A disease of sheep, in which the intestines are distended with air, or rather affected with a violent inflammation. It occurs immediately after shearing..

Snithy :: Snithy (a.) Sharp; piercing; cutting; -- applied to the wind.

Cyclone :: Cyclone (n.) A violent storm, often of vast extent, characterized by high winds rotating about a calm center of low atmospheric pressure. This center moves onward, often with a velocity of twenty or thirty miles an hour..

Unwind :: Unwind (v. t.) To disentangle.

Blast :: Blast (v. t.) To injure, as by a noxious wind; to cause to wither; to stop or check the growth of, and prevent from fruit-bearing, by some pernicious influence; to blight; to shrivel..

Nehiloth :: Nehiloth (n. pl.) A term supposed to mean, perforated wind instruments of music, as pipes or flutes..

Tack :: Tack (v. t.) To change the direction of (a vessel) when sailing closehauled, by putting the helm alee and shifting the tacks and sails so that she will proceed to windward nearly at right angles to her former course..

Rush :: Rush (n.) A moving forward with rapidity and force or eagerness; a violent motion or course; as, a rush of troops; a rush of winds; a rush of water..

Drier :: Drier (n.) One who, or that which, dries; that which may expel or absorb moisture; a desiccative; as, the sun and a northwesterly wind are great driers of the earth..

Wind-sucker :: Wind-sucker (n.) The kestrel.

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

Hasp :: Hasp (n.) A spindle to wind yarn, thread, or silk on..

Vese :: Vese (n.) Onset; rush; violent draught or wind.

Drift :: Drift (a.) That causes drifting or that is drifted; movable by wind or currents; as, drift currents; drift ice; drift mud..

Weather-driven :: Weather-driven (a.) Driven by winds or storms; forced by stress of weather.

Choke :: Choke (n.) A stoppage or irritation of the windpipe, producing the feeling of strangulation..

Canon :: Canon (n.) A musical composition in which the voices begin one after another, at regular intervals, successively taking up the same subject. It either winds up with a coda (tailpiece), or, as each voice finishes, commences anew, thus forming a perpetual fugue or round. It is the strictest form of imitation. See Imitation..

Ply :: Ply (v. i.) To work to windward; to beat.

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

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