Definition of wind

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Wind (n.) 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..

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Cheat :: Cheat (n.) To deceive and defraud; to impose upon; to trick; to swindle.
Quill :: Quill (v. t.) To wind on a quill, as thread or yarn..
Beat :: Beat (v. i.) To come or act with violence; to dash or fall with force; to strike anything, as, rain, wind, and waves do..
Stench :: Stem-winding (a.) Wound by mechanism connected with the stem; as, a stem-winding watch..
Wind :: Wind (v. t.) To entwist; to infold; to encircle.
Stare :: Stare (v. i.) To be very conspicuous on account of size, prominence, color, or brilliancy; as, staring windows or colors..
Careen :: Careen (v. i.) To incline to one side, or lie over, as a ship when sailing on a wind; to be off the keel..
Serenade :: Serenade (n.) Music sung or performed in the open air at nights; -- usually applied to musical entertainments given in the open air at night, especially by gentlemen, in a spirit of gallantry, under the windows of ladies..
Pawl :: Pawl (n.) A pivoted tongue, or sliding bolt, on one part of a machine, adapted to fall into notches, or interdental spaces, on another part, as a ratchet wheel, in such a manner as to permit motion in one direction and prevent it in the reverse, as in a windlass; a catch, click, or detent. See Illust. of Ratchet Wheel..
Meandrian :: Meandrian (a.) Winding; having many turns.
Oillet :: Oillet (n.) A small circular opening, and ring of moldings surrounding it, used in window tracery in Gothic architecture..
Drying :: Drying (a.) Adapted or tending to exhaust moisture; as, a drying wind or day; a drying room..
Gin :: Gin (n.) A machine for raising or moving heavy weights, consisting of a tripod formed of poles united at the top, with a windlass, pulleys, ropes, etc..
Shiver :: Shiver (n.) A small wedge, as for fastening the bolt of a window shutter..
Windingly :: Windingly (adv.) In a winding manner.
Windowed :: Windowed (imp. & p. p.) of Windo.
Weather :: Weather (a.) Being toward the wind, or windward -- opposed to lee; as, weather bow, weather braces, weather gauge, weather lifts, weather quarter, weather shrouds, etc..
Saxhorn :: Saxhorn (n.) A name given to a numerous family of brass wind instruments with valves, invented by Antoine Joseph Adolphe Sax (known as Adolphe Sax), of Belgium and Paris, and much used in military bands and in orchestras..
Stay :: Stay (v. i.) To tack, as a vessel, so that the other side of the vessel shall be presented to the wind..
Eolian :: Eolian (a.) Formed, or deposited, by the action of wind, as dunes..
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