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Wind \Wind\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Wound} (wound) (rarely
{Winded}); p. pr. & vb. n. {Winding}.] [OE. winden, AS.
windan; akin to OS. windan, D. & G. winden, OHG. wintan,
Icel. & Sw. vinda, Dan. vinde, Goth. windan (in comp.). Cf.
{Wander}, {Wend}.]
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1. To turn completely, or with repeated turns; especially, to
turn about something fixed; to cause to form convolutions
about anything; to coil; to twine; to twist; to wreathe;
as, to wind thread on a spool or into a ball.
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Whether to wind
The woodbine round this arbor. --Milton.
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2. To entwist; to infold; to encircle.
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Sleep, and I will wind thee in arms. --Shak.
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3. To have complete control over; to turn and bend at one's
pleasure; to vary or alter or will; to regulate; to
govern. "To turn and wind a fiery Pegasus." --Shak.
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In his terms so he would him wind. --Chaucer.
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Gifts blind the wise, and bribes do please
And wind all other witnesses. --Herrick.
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Were our legislature vested in the prince, he might
wind and turn our constitution at his pleasure.
--Addison.
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4. To introduce by insinuation; to insinuate.
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You have contrived . . . to wind
Yourself into a power tyrannical. --Shak.
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Little arts and dexterities they have to wind in
such things into discourse. --Gov. of
Tongue.
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5. To cover or surround with something coiled about; as, to
wind a rope with twine.
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{To wind off}, to unwind; to uncoil.

{To wind out}, to extricate. [Obs.] --Clarendon.

{To wind up}.
(a) To coil into a ball or small compass, as a skein of
thread; to coil completely.
(b) To bring to a conclusion or settlement; as, to wind up
one's affairs; to wind up an argument.
(c) To put in a state of renewed or continued motion, as a
clock, a watch, etc., by winding the spring, or that
which carries the weight; hence, to prepare for
continued movement or action; to put in order anew.
"Fate seemed to wind him up for fourscore years."
--Dryden. "Thus they wound up his temper to a pitch."
--Atterbury.
(d) To tighten (the strings) of a musical instrument, so
as to tune it. "Wind up the slackened strings of thy
lute." --Waller.
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Wind \Wind\, v. i.
1. To turn completely or repeatedly; to become coiled about
anything; to assume a convolved or spiral form; as, vines
wind round a pole.
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So swift your judgments turn and wind. --Dryden.
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2. To have a circular course or direction; to crook; to bend;
to meander; as, to wind in and out among trees.
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And where the valley winded out below,
The murmuring main was heard, and scarcely heard, to
flow. --Thomson.
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He therefore turned him to the steep and rocky path
which . . . winded through the thickets of wild
boxwood and other low aromatic shrubs. --Sir W.
Scott.
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3. To go to the one side or the other; to move this way and
that; to double on one's course; as, a hare pursued turns
and winds.
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The lowing herd wind ?lowly o'er the lea. --Gray.
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To wind out, to extricate one's self; to escape.
Long struggling underneath are they could wind
Out of such prison. --Milton.
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Wind \Wind\, n.
The act of winding or turning; a turn; a bend; a twist; a
winding.
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Wind \Wind\ (w[i^]nd, in poetry and singing often w[imac]nd;
277), n. [AS. wind; akin to OS., OFries., D., & G. wind, OHG.
wint, Dan. & Sw. vind, Icel. vindr, Goth winds, W. gwynt, L.
ventus, Skr. v[=a]ta (cf. Gr. 'ah`ths a blast, gale, 'ah^nai
to breathe hard, to blow, as the wind); originally a p. pr.
from the verb seen in Skr. v[=a] to blow, akin to AS.
w[=a]wan, D. waaijen, G. wehen, OHG. w[=a]en, w[=a]jen, Goth.
waian. [root]131. Cf. {Air}, {Ventail}, {Ventilate},
{Window}, {Winnow}.]
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1. Air naturally in motion with any degree of velocity; a
current of air.
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Except wind stands as never it stood,
It is an ill wind that turns none to good. --Tusser.
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Winds were soft, and woods were green. --Longfellow.
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2. Air artificially put in motion by any force or action; as,
the wind of a cannon ball; the wind of a bellows.
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3. Breath modulated by the respiratory and vocal organs, or
by an instrument.
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Their instruments were various in their kind,
Some for the bow, and some for breathing wind.
--Dryden.
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4. Power of respiration; breath.
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If my wind were but long enough to say my prayers, I
would repent. --Shak.
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5. Air or gas generated in the stomach or bowels; flatulence;
as, to be troubled with wind.
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6. Air impregnated with an odor or scent.
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A pack of dogfish had him in the wind. --Swift.
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7. 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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Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe upon
these slain. --Ezek.
xxxvii. 9.
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Note: This sense seems to have had its origin in the East.
The Hebrews gave to each of the four cardinal points
the name of wind.
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8. (Far.) 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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9. Mere breath or talk; empty effort; idle words.
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Nor think thou with wind
Of airy threats to awe. --Milton.
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10. (Zool.) The dotterel. [Prov. Eng.]
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11. (Boxing) The region of the pit of the stomach, where a
blow may paralyze the diaphragm and cause temporary loss
of breath or other injury; the mark. [Slang or Cant]
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Note: Wind is often used adjectively, or as the first part of
compound words.
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{All in the wind}. (Naut.) See under {All}, n.

{Before the wind}. (Naut.) See under {Before}.

{Between wind and water} (Naut.), in that part of a ship's
side or bottom which is frequently brought above water by
the rolling of the ship, or fluctuation of the water's
surface. Hence, colloquially, (as an injury to that part
of a vessel, in an engagement, is particularly dangerous)
the vulnerable part or point of anything.

{Cardinal winds}. See under {Cardinal}, a.

{Down the wind}.
(a) In the direction of, and moving with, the wind; as,
birds fly swiftly down the wind.
(b) Decaying; declining; in a state of decay. [Obs.] "He
went down the wind still." --L'Estrange.

{In the wind's eye} (Naut.), directly toward the point from
which the wind blows.

{Three sheets in the wind}, unsteady from drink. [Sailors'
Slang]

{To be in the wind}, to be suggested or expected; to be a
matter of suspicion or surmise. [Colloq.]

{To carry the wind} (Man.), to toss the nose as high as the
ears, as a horse.

{To raise the wind}, to procure money. [Colloq.]

{To take the wind} or {To have the wind}, to gain or have the
advantage. --Bacon.

{To take the wind out of one's sails}, to cause one to stop,
or lose way, as when a vessel intercepts the wind of
another; to cause one to lose enthusiasm, or momentum in
an activity. [Colloq.]

{To take wind}, or {To get wind}, to be divulged; to become
public; as, the story got wind, or took wind.

{Wind band} (Mus.), a band of wind instruments; a military
band; the wind instruments of an orchestra.

{Wind chest} (Mus.), a chest or reservoir of wind in an
organ.

{Wind dropsy}. (Med.)
(a) Tympanites.
(b) Emphysema of the subcutaneous areolar tissue.

{Wind egg}, an imperfect, unimpregnated, or addled egg.

{Wind furnace}. See the Note under {Furnace}.

{Wind gauge}. See under {Gauge}.

{Wind gun}. Same as {Air gun}.

{Wind hatch} (Mining), the opening or place where the ore is
taken out of the earth.

{Wind instrument} (Mus.), an instrument of music sounded by
means of wind, especially by means of the breath, as a
flute, a clarinet, etc.

{Wind pump}, a pump moved by a windmill.

{Wind rose}, a table of the points of the compass, giving the
states of the barometer, etc., connected with winds from
the different directions.

{Wind sail}.
(a) (Naut.) A wide tube or funnel of canvas, used to
convey a stream of air for ventilation into the lower
compartments of a vessel.
(b) The sail or vane of a windmill.

{Wind shake}, a crack or incoherence in timber produced by
violent winds while the timber was growing.

{Wind shock}, a wind shake.

{Wind side}, the side next the wind; the windward side. [R.]
--Mrs. Browning.

{Wind rush} (Zool.), the redwing. [Prov. Eng.]

{Wind wheel}, a motor consisting of a wheel moved by wind.

{Wood wind} (Mus.), the flutes and reed instruments of an
orchestra, collectively.
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Wind \Wind\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Winded}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Winding}.]
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1. To expose to the wind; to winnow; to ventilate.
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2. To perceive or follow by the scent; to scent; to nose; as,
the hounds winded the game.
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3.
(a) To drive hard, or force to violent exertion, as a
horse, so as to render scant of wind; to put out of
breath.
(b) To rest, as a horse, in order to allow the breath to
be recovered; to breathe.
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{To wind a ship} (Naut.), to turn it end for end, so that the
wind strikes it on the opposite side.
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Wind \Wind\, v. t. [From {Wind}, moving air, but confused in
sense and in conjugation with wind to turn.] [imp. & p. p.
{Wound} (wound), R. {Winded}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Winding}.]
To blow; to sound by blowing; esp., to sound with prolonged
and mutually involved notes. "Hunters who wound their horns."
--Pennant.
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Ye vigorous swains, while youth ferments your blood, .
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Wind the shrill horn. --Pope.
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That blast was winded by the king. --Sir W.
Scott.
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