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Crook :: Crook (v. i.) To bend; to curve; to wind; to have a curvature.

Tornado :: Tornado (n.) A violent whirling wind; specifically (Meteorol.), a tempest distinguished by a rapid whirling and slow progressive motion, usually accompaned with severe thunder, lightning, and torrents of rain, and commonly of short duration and small breadth; a small cyclone..

Windstorm :: Windstorm (n.) A storm characterized by high wind with little or no rain.

Windage :: Windage (n.) The sudden compression of the air caused by a projectile in passing close to another body.

Winding :: Winding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Win.

Pneumato- :: Pneumato- () A combining form from Gr. pney^ma, pney`matos, wind, air, breath, respiration; as, pneumatograph, pneumatology..

Weather-bit :: Weather-bit (n.) A turn of the cable about the end of the windlass, without the bits..

Student :: Studding sail () A light sail set at the side of a principal or square sail of a vessel in free winds, to increase her speed. Its head is bent to a small spar which is called the studding-sail boom. See Illust. of Sail..

Hyperborean :: Hyperborean (n.) One of the people who lived beyond the North wind, in a land of perpetual sunshine..

Windgall :: Windgall (n.) A soft tumor or synovial swelling on the fetlock joint of a horse; -- so called from having formerly been supposed to contain air.

Flyer :: Flyer (n.) The fan wheel that rotates the cap of a windmill as the wind veers.

Edge :: Edge (v. i.) To sail close to the wind.

Fierce :: Fierce (superl.) Furious; violent; unrestrained; impetuous; as, a fierce wind..

Swindlery :: Swindler (n.) One who swindles, or defrauds grossly; one who makes a practice of defrauding others by imposition or deliberate artifice; a cheat..

Southeast :: Southeast (a.) Of or pertaining to the southeast; proceeding toward, or coming from, the southeast; as, a southeast course; a southeast wind..

Boxhaul :: Boxhaul (v. t.) To put (a vessel) on the other tack by veering her short round on her heel; -- so called from the circumstance of bracing the head yards abox (i. e., sharp aback, on the wind)..

Windowed :: Windowed (a.) Having windows or openings.

Windas :: Windas (n.) See 3d Windlass.

Variable :: Variable (n.) A shifting wind, or one that varies in force..

Governing :: Governing (a.) Holding the superiority; prevalent; controlling; as, a governing wind; a governing party in a state..

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