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ounce of powdered jalap, and while lukewarm to give tht 

 Sleep a quarter of a pint of this liquor, well (haken toge- 

 ther, every half hour till it dungs. It fhould have no food 

 or cold water until recovered, but a little warm water might 

 be of fervice in fome cafes. 



This is a diforder which is in general fo fuddenly fatal, 

 that recourfe fliould be inftantly had to any remedy that 

 may have been found beneficial ; but bleeding is probably 

 that on which the greateft dependence may be placed, with 

 calomel in fome inftances. 



Wind, among Animals, 19 another name for the breath, 

 or rather for the power with which the lungs are endowed 

 in the exercife of their funftions, which in many cafes is a 

 fort of morbid affedion of them, efpecially in horfes, fwine, 

 calves, and fome others. Horfes are often thick-winded 

 and purfive, which is this ftate, and require much exercife 

 and management, and the other two are fometimes affedled 

 in much the fame way. 



Wind, in Rural Economy, a term applied to a winch or 

 wince in fome places. 



Wind, FrcJIj. See Fresh. 



Wind, To haul the. See Haul. 



Wind, Large, in the Sea Language. See Large. 



Wind, Quarter, at Sea. See Quarter. 



Winds, Reigning. See Reigning. 



Winds, Tropic. See TRADE-IVinds, zndWiHD fupra. 



Wind, Side, at Sea, that which blows on the fide of the 

 fhip. 



To Wind a Ship or Boat, in Sea Language, is to change 

 her pofition, by bringing the ftern to lie in the fituation of 

 the head, or diredlly oppofite to its former fituation. 



Wind, in the Manege. A horfe that carries in the wind, 

 is one that toffes his nofe as high as his ears, and does not 

 carry handfomely. 



The difference between carrying in the wind and beat- 

 ing upon the hand is, that a horfe who beats upon the hand 

 (hakes his head, and refifts the bridle ; but he who carries 

 in the wind, puts up his head without fhaking, and only 

 fometimes beats upon the hand. The oppofite to carrying 

 in the wind is arming and carrying low. 



Wind, Whirl. See WmRL-lVinJ. 



Wind, Colic. See Colic. 



WiSD-DropJy. See Tympanites. 



WiND-£Vg-, an addle egg, or an egg that has taken wind. 

 See Egg. 



WiND-/a// denotes fruit blown off the tree by the 

 wind. 



WitiTy-Flower, in Botany. See Anemone. 



"Wm-D- Furnace. See Furnace. 



WiND-G.3gc, in Pneumatics, an inftrument ferving to de- 

 termine the velocity and force of the wind. See Anemo- 

 meter, Anemoscope, and Laivs of the Force, l^c. of the 

 Wivtofupra. 



Dr. Lind, of Edinburgh, has contrived an apparatus of 

 this kind, which is fimple and eafy of conllruAion, and 

 which feems to be well adapted for meafuring the force of 

 the wind with a fufficient degree of accuracy. This in- 

 ftrument confifts of two glafs tubes A B, C D, ( Plate XV. 

 Pneumatics, jig. 9. ) five or fix inclies in length, and about 

 four-tenths of an inch in bore ; which are connefted toge- 

 ther like a fiphon, by a fmall bent glafs tube a h, the bore of 

 which is one-tenth of an inch in diameter. On the upper 

 end of the leg A B there is a tube of latten brafs, which is 

 kneed or bent perpendicularly outwards, and has its mouth 

 open towards F ; on the other leg C D is a cover, with a 

 round hole G in the upper part of it, two-tenths of an inch 

 in diameter. This cover and the kneed tube are connefted 



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together by a flip of brafs, c d, which ftrengthens the whole 

 inftrument, and ferves to hold the fcale H I. The kneed 

 tube and cover are fixed on with hard cement, or fealing- 

 wax. To the fame tube is foldered a piece of brafs, e, with 

 a round hole in it, to receive the fteel fpindle K L, and at 

 / another fuch piece of brafs is foldered to the brafs hoop 

 g h, which furrounds both legs of the inftrument. There is 

 a fmall ftioulder on the fpindle at/, upon which the inftru- 

 ment refts, and a fmall nut /, to prevent it from being blown 

 off the fpindle by the wind. The whole inftrument is eafily 

 turned round upon the fpindle by the wind, fo as always to 

 prefent the mouth of the kneed tube toward it. At the 

 end of the fpindle there is a fcrew, by which it may be 

 fcrewed to the top of a poft or ftand : it has alfo a hole at 

 L, to admit a fmall lever for fcrewing it into wood with 

 greater facility. A thin plate of brafs k is foldered on the 

 kneed tube, about half an inch above the round hole G, fo 

 as to prevent rain from falling into it. There is alfo a 

 crooked tube A B (jig. 10.), to be put occafionally upon 

 the mouth of the kneed tube F, in order to prevent rain 

 from being blown into the mouth of the wind-gage, when 

 it is left expofed to the rain. 



This inftrument ferves to afcertain the force of the wind, 

 by filling the tube half full of water, and pufhing the fcale 

 a little up or down, till o upon the fcale, when the inftru- 

 ment is held perpendicularly, be on a line with the furface 

 of the water, in both legs of the wind-gage. The inftru- 

 ment being thus adjuftcd, hold it up perpendicularly, and 

 turning the mouth of the kneed tube toward the wind, ob- 

 ferve how much the water is deprefled by it in one leg, and 

 how much it is raifed in the other. The fum of the two 

 is the height of a column of water, which the wind is capa- 

 ble of fuftaining at that time ; and every body that is op- 

 pofed to that wind, will be preffed upon by a force equal to 

 the weight of a column of water, having its bafe equal to 

 the furface that is oppofed, and its height equal to the alti- 

 tude of the column of water fuftained by the wind in the 

 wind-gage. Hence the force of the xvind upon any body, 

 where the furface oppofed to it is known, may be eafily 

 found ; and a ready comparifon may be made betwixt the 

 ftrength of one gale of wind, and that of another, by know- 

 ing the heights of the columns of water which the different 

 winds were capable of fuftaining. The heights of the co- 

 lumn in each leg will be equal, provided that the legs are 

 of equal bores ; but unequal if their bores are unequal. 

 For fuppofe the legs equal, and the column of water 

 fuftained by the wind to be three inches, the water in the 

 leg which the wind blows into will be depreffed \\ inch 

 below o, and raifed as much in the other leg. But if the 

 bore of the leg which the wind blows into be double that 

 of the other, the water in that leg will be depreffed only 

 one inch, whilft it is raifed twice as much, or two inches, 

 in tlie other, and •vice verfd. 



The force of the wind may likewife be meafured with 

 this inftrument, by filling it till the water runs out at G. 

 For if it be then held up to the wind as before, a quantity 

 of water will be thrown out ; and if both legs of the inftru- 

 ment are of the fame bore, the height of the column fuf- 

 tained will be equal to double the column of water in either 

 leg, or the fum of what is wanting in both legs. But if the 

 legs are of unequal bores, neither of thefe will give the true 

 height of the column of water which the wind fuftained. 

 For, obtaining in this cafe the true height. Dr. Lind has 

 fubjoined the requifite formuls. The ufe of the fmall tube 

 of communication ab {jg. 9.), is to check the undulation 

 of the water, fo that the height of it may be read off from 

 the fcale with eafe and certainty ; and alfo to prevent the 

 3^2 water 



