Definition of wind

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Wind (v. i.) To turn completely or repeatedly; to become coiled about anything; to assume a convolved or spiral form; as, vines wind round a pole..

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Whirlwind :: Whirlwind (n.) A violent windstorm of limited extent, as the tornado, characterized by an inward spiral motion of the air with an upward current in the center; a vortex of air. It usually has a rapid progressive motion..
Mistral :: Mistral (n.) A violent and cold northwest wind experienced in the Mediterranean provinces of France, etc..
Notus :: Notus (n.) The south wind.
Aquilon :: Aquilon (n.) The north wind.
Pallet :: Pallet (n.) In the organ, a valve between the wind chest and the mouth of a pipe or row of pipes..
Stifle :: Stifle (v. t.) To stop the breath of by crowding something into the windpipe, or introducing an irrespirable substance into the lungs; to choke; to suffocate; to cause the death of by such means; as, to stifle one with smoke or dust..
Wind :: Wind (v. t.) To introduce by insinuation; to insinuate.
Quarrel :: Quarrel (n.) A small opening in window tracery, of which the cusps, etc., make the form nearly square..
Winded :: Winded () of Win.
Windpipe :: Windpipe (n.) The passage for the breath from the larynx to the lungs; the trachea; the weasand. See Illust. under Lung.
Dwindle :: Dwindle (n.) The process of dwindling; dwindlement; decline; degeneracy.
Unclew :: Unclew (v. t.) To unwind, unfold, or untie; hence, to undo; to ruin..
Harmoniphon :: Harmoniphon (n.) An obsolete wind instrument with a keyboard, in which the sound, which resembled the oboe, was produced by the vibration of thin metallic plates, acted upon by blowing through a tube..
Outblown :: Outblown (a.) Inflated with wind.
Journal :: "Journal (a.) A daily register of the ship's course and distance, the winds, weather, incidents of the voyage, etc..
Propel :: Propel (v. t.) To drive forward; to urge or press onward by force; to move, or cause to move; as, the wind or steam propels ships; balls are propelled by gunpowder..
Badge :: Badge (n.) A carved ornament on the stern of a vessel, containing a window or the representation of one..
Jalousie :: Jalousie (n.) A Venetian or slatted inside window blind.
Solano :: Solano () A hot, oppressive wind which sometimes blows in the Mediterranean, particularly on the eastern coast of Spain..
Wind :: Wind (v. t.) To entwist; to infold; to encircle.
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