Definition of wind

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Wind (n.) The dotterel.

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Chopping :: Chopping (a.) Shifting or changing suddenly, as the wind; also, having tumbling waves dashing against each other; as, a chopping sea..
Overblow :: Overblow (v. i.) To force so much wind into a pipe that it produces an overtone, or a note higher than the natural note; thus, the upper octaves of a flute are produced by overblowing..
Embouchure :: Embouchure (n.) The mouthpiece of a wind instrument.
Splay :: Splay (v. t.) To turn on one side; to render oblique; to slope or slant, as the side of a door, window, etc..
Weather-driven :: Weather-driven (a.) Driven by winds or storms; forced by stress of weather.
Brakeman :: Brakeman (n.) The man in charge of the winding (or hoisting) engine for a mine.
Dry :: Dry (a.) To make dry; to free from water, or from moisture of any kind, and by any means; to exsiccate; as, to dry the eyes; to dry one's tears; the wind dries the earth; to dry a wet cloth; to dry hay..
Variable :: Variable (n.) A shifting wind, or one that varies in force..
Weather :: Weather (v. t.) To sail or pass to the windward of; as, to weather a cape; to weather another ship..
Whirlwind :: Whirlwind (n.) Fig.: A body of objects sweeping violently onward.
Quarrel :: Quarrel (n.) A small opening in window tracery, of which the cusps, etc., make the form nearly square..
Anemography :: Anemography (n.) A description of the winds.
Lee :: Lee (n.) That part of the hemisphere, as one stands on shipboard, toward which the wind blows. See Lee, a..
Seaworthiness :: Seaworthiness (n.) The state or quality of being seaworthy, or able to resist the ordinary violence of wind and weather..
Indenture :: Indenture (v. i.) To run or wind in and out; to be cut or notched; to indent.
Trachea :: Trachea (n.) The windpipe. See Illust. of Lung.
Drift :: Drift (v. t.) To drive into heaps; as, a current of wind drifts snow or sand..
Pane :: Pane (n.) Especially, in modern use, the glass in one compartment of a window sash..
Vese :: Vese (n.) Onset; rush; violent draught or wind.
Trombone :: Trombone (n.) A powerful brass instrument of the trumpet kind, thought by some to be the ancient sackbut, consisting of a tube in three parts, bent twice upon itself and ending in a bell. The middle part, bent double, slips into the outer parts, as in a telescope, so that by change of the vibrating length any tone within the compass of the instrument (which may be bass or tenor or alto or even, in rare instances, soprano) is commanded. It is the only member of the family of wind instruments whos
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