Definition of wind

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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..

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Spoon :: Spoom (v. i.) To be driven steadily and swiftly, as before a strong wind; to be driven before the wind without any sail, or with only a part of the sails spread; to scud under bare poles..
Adrift :: Adrift (adv. & a.) Floating at random; in a drifting condition; at the mercy of wind and waves. Also fig.
Tongue :: Tongue (v. i.) To use the tongue in forming the notes, as in playing the flute and some other wind instruments..
Bubble :: Bubble (n.) A globule of air, or globular vacuum, in a transparent solid; as, bubbles in window glass, or in a lens..
Uncoil :: Uncoil (v. t.) To unwind or open, as a coil of rope..
Reel :: Reel (v. t.) To wind upon a reel, as yarn or thread..
Gyrate :: Gyrate (a.) Winding or coiled round; curved into a circle; taking a circular course.
Touch :: Touch (v. i.) To be brought, as a sail, so close to the wind that its weather leech shakes..
Chinook :: Chinook (n.) A warm westerly wind from the country of the Chinooks, sometimes experienced on the slope of the Rocky Mountains, in Montana and the adjacent territory..
Fly :: Fly (v. i.) To move through the air or before the wind; esp., to pass or be driven rapidly through the air by any impulse..
Rose :: Rose (n.) A rose window. See Rose window, below..
Chop :: Chop (v. i.) To vary or shift suddenly; as, the wind chops about..
Tracer/y :: Tracer/y (n.) The decorative head of a Gothic window.
Light :: Light (n.) The medium through which light is admitted, as a window, or window pane; a skylight; in architecture, one of the compartments of a window made by a mullion or mullions..
Windpipe :: Windpipe (n.) The passage for the breath from the larynx to the lungs; the trachea; the weasand. See Illust. under Lung.
Carrol :: Carrol (n.) A small closet or inclosure built against a window on the inner side, to sit in for study. The word was used as late as the 16th century..
Variable :: Variable (n.) Those parts of the sea where a steady wind is not expected, especially the parts between the trade-wind belts..
Spill :: Spill (v. t.) To relieve a sail from the pressure of the wind, so that it can be more easily reefed or furled, or to lessen the strain..
Windle :: Windle (n.) A spindle; a kind of reel; a winch.
Windage :: Windage (n.) The sudden compression of the air caused by a projectile in passing close to another body.
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