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String :: String (n.) The cord of a musical instrument, as of a piano, harp, or violin; specifically (pl.), the stringed instruments of an orchestra, in distinction from the wind instruments; as, the strings took up the theme..

Offshore :: Offshore (a.) From the shore; as, an offshore wind; an offshore signal..

Bubble :: Bubble (n.) A globule of air, or globular vacuum, in a transparent solid; as, bubbles in window glass, or in a lens..

Ciliated :: Ciliated (a.) Provided with, or surrounded by, cilia; as, a ciliate leaf; endowed with vibratory motion; as, the ciliated epithelium of the windpipe..

Drier :: Drier (n.) One who, or that which, dries; that which may expel or absorb moisture; a desiccative; as, the sun and a northwesterly wind are great driers of the earth..

Windowing :: Windowing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Windo.

Lee :: Lee (n.) That part of the hemisphere, as one stands on shipboard, toward which the wind blows. See Lee, a..

Fordwine :: Fordwine (v. i.) To dwindle away; to disappear.

Wind-rode :: Wind-rode (a.) Caused to ride or drive by the wind in opposition to the course of the tide; -- said of a vessel lying at anchor, with wind and tide opposed to each other..

Sea Withwind :: Sea withwind () A kind of bindweed (Convolvulus Soldanella) growing on the seacoast of Europe.

Winded :: Winded (imp. & p. p.) of Win.

Banquette :: Banquette (n.) A narrow window seat; a raised shelf at the back or the top of a buffet or dresser.

Cornice :: Cornice (n.) Any horizontal, molded or otherwise decorated projection which crowns or finishes the part to which it is affixed; as, the cornice of an order, pedestal, door, window, or house..

Driftwind :: Driftwind (n.) A driving wind; a wind that drives snow, sand, etc., into heaps..

Simoon :: Simoon (n.) A hot, dry, suffocating, dust-laden wind, that blows occasionally in Arabia, Syria, and neighboring countries, generated by the extreme heat of the parched deserts or sandy plains..

Strong :: Strong (superl.) Moving with rapidity or force; violent; forcible; impetuous; as, a strong current of water or wind; the wind was strong from the northeast; a strong tide..

Rise :: Rise (v.) To increase in power or fury; -- said of wind or a storm, and hence, of passion..

Crane :: Crane (n.) A machine for raising and lowering heavy weights, and, while holding them suspended, transporting them through a limited lateral distance. In one form it consists of a projecting arm or jib of timber or iron, a rotating post or base, and the necessary tackle, windlass, etc.; -- so called from a fancied similarity between its arm and the neck of a crane See Illust. of Derrick..

Surge :: Surge (n.) A large wave or billow; a great, rolling swell of water, produced generally by a high wind..

Kestrel :: Kestrel (n.) A small, slender European hawk (Falco alaudarius), allied to the sparrow hawk. Its color is reddish fawn, streaked and spotted with white and black. Also called windhover and stannel. The name is also applied to other allied species..

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