Definition of wind

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Wind (n.) Power of respiration; breath.

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Agitate :: Agitate (v. t.) To move with a violent, irregular action; as, the wind agitates the sea; to agitate water in a vessel..
Windless :: Windless (a.) Wanting wind; out of breath.
Reel :: Reel (v. t.) To wind upon a reel, as yarn or thread..
Anemography :: Anemography (n.) A description of the winds.
Souther :: Souther (n.) A strong wind, gale, or storm from the south..
Fenestral :: Fenestral (n.) A casement or window sash, closed with cloth or paper instead of glass..
Sidepiece :: Sidepiece (n.) The jamb, or cheek, of an opening in a wall, as of door or window..
Doubling :: Doubling (n.) A turning and winding; as, the doubling of a hunted hare; shift; trick; artifice..
Weatherbit :: Weatherbit (v. t.) To take another turn with, as a cable around a windlass..
Grated :: Grated (a.) Furnished with a grate or grating; as, grated windows..
Flamboyant :: Flamboyant (a.) Characterized by waving or flamelike curves, as in the tracery of windows, etc.; -- said of the later (15th century) French Gothic style..
Strangle :: Strangle (v. t.) To compress the windpipe of (a person or animal) until death results from stoppage of respiration; to choke to death by compressing the throat, as with the hand or a rope..
Steadied :: Steady (n.) Regular; constant; undeviating; uniform; as, the steady course of the sun; a steady breeze of wind..
Choke :: Choke (v. t.) To render unable to breathe by filling, pressing upon, or squeezing the windpipe; to stifle; to suffocate; to strangle..
Auster :: Auster (n.) The south wind.
Typhon :: Typhon (n.) According to Hesiod, the son of Typhoeus, and father of the winds, but later identified with him..
Storm :: Storm (n.) A violent disturbance of the atmosphere, attended by wind, rain, snow, hail, or thunder and lightning; hence, often, a heavy fall of rain, snow, or hail, whether accompanied with wind or not..
Shroud :: Shroud (n.) To cover with a shroud; especially, to inclose in a winding sheet; to dress for the grave..
Gauche :: Gauche (n.) Winding; twisted; warped; -- applied to curves and surfaces.
Thimblerig :: Thimblerig (v. t.) To swindle by means of small cups or thimbles, and a pea or small ball placed under one of them and quickly shifted to another, the victim laying a wager that he knows under which cup it is; hence, to cheat by any trick..
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