wind 
rary loss of respiratory power by paralyzing 
the diaphragm for a time. It forms a for- 
bidden point of attack in scientific boxing. 
[Slang.] 
He pats him and pokes him in divers parts of the body, 
but particularly in that part which tlie science of self-de- 
fence would call his tcijid. IHcketis. 
8. The wind-instruments of an orchestra taken 
collectively, including both tlie wood wind 
(flutes, oboes, etc.) and the brass wind (trum- 
pets, horns, etc.). — 9. Anything light as wind, 
and hence ineffectual or empty; especially, 
idle words, threats, bombast, etc. 
Nor think thou with wind 
Of aery threats to awe. Milton, P. L., vi. 282. 
10. Air or gas generated in the stomach and 
bowels; flatulence. 
Knowledge . . . 
Oppresses else with surfeit, and soon turns 
Wisdom to folly, as nourishment to wind. 
Milton, P. L., vii. 130. 
11. A disease of sheep, in which the intestines 
are distended with air, or rather afi;'ected with 
a \'iolent inflammation. It occurs immediately 
after shearing — A capful of wind. See capful.— A 
fair wind, a wind that enables a sailing ship to head her 
course with the sails full. -All in the wind. See all.— 
A sheet in the wind. See sheeO.— Baire windt. See 
6orei,— Before thewind. See fte/are.— Between wind 
and water, (a) In that part of a ship's side or bottom 
which is frequently brought above the water i»y the roll- 
ing of the vessel or by fluctuation of the water's surface. 
Any breach effected by shot in this part is peculiai-ly 
dangerous. 
They had a tall man-of-war to convoy them ; but, at 
the first bout, it was shot between u%nd and water, and 
forced to make towards land. 
Court and Times of Charles I., II. 42. 
Hence, figuratively — (6) A ny part or point generally where 
a blow or attack will most effectually injure. 
Shot him between wind and water. 
Beau, ami Fl., Philaster, iv. 1. 
He had hit his desires in the Master-vein, and struck his 
former Jealousie between wind and water, so that it sunk 
in the instant. 
Fannant, Hist, of Edward II. (ed. 1680), p. 11. 
Broken wind, a veterinai-y term for a form of paroxys- 
mal dyspnoea, which seems to depend on asthma com- 
bined with a varying amount of en»physenia: also loosely 
used for other dyspnoeic conditions. See broken-winded 
and wind-broken.— "By the Wind. See &j/1. — Cardinal 
winds. See cardinal.— Close to the wind. See dose'-i, 
ady. — Down the wind, (a) In the direction of and mov- 
ing with the wind : as, birds fly quickly doivn the wind, {b) 
Toward ruin, decay, or adversity. Compare to whistle off, 
under whistle, v. t. 
The more he prayed to it [the image] to prosper him in 
the world, the more he went down tfte icind still. 
Sir Jl. L'Estranoe. 
Head to wind. See head.— "Eat winds of the plains, 
southwesterly winds in Texas, Kansas, Nebraska, and the 
Djikotas, which occur during the summer season, and by 
their extreme heat and dryness prove exceedingly destruc- 
tive to vegetation.— How the wind blows or lies, (a) 
The direction or velocity of the wind, {b) I'iguratively, 
the position or state of affairs; huw matters stand at a 
particular juncture: as, trifles show how the wind blows. 
Miss Sprong, her confidante, who, seeing how the wind 
lay, had tried to drop little malicious liints . . . until the 
old lady had cut them short. Farrar, Julian Home, iv. 
In the wind, astir ; afoot. 
Go to, there's somewhat in the wind, I see. 
B. Jonson, Case is Altered, iii. 3. 
What the blazes is in the wind now? 
Dickens, Oliver Twist. 
In the wind's eye, in the teeth of the wind, directly 
toward the point from which the wind blows; in a direc- 
tion exactly contrary to that of the wind. — Is the wind 
in that door?t is that how the case stands? is that tlie 
state of atfairs? 
Thras. I am come to intreat you to stand my friend, 
and to favour me with a longer time, and I wil make you 
sutficient consideration. 
Usurer. Is the winde in that doore ? If thou hast my 
mony. so it is; I will not defer a day, an houre, a miimte. 
Greene and Lod'je, Looking-Glass for London and Eng. 
Leading wind. See /effrfmi;ri.— Mountain and valley 
winds, in ineteor., diurnal winds blowing up the sides of 
mountains and the trough of valleys during the day, and 
down during the night. They are due tcj differences of 
temperature arising from unequal heating and radiation, 
whereby the air at the summits of hills and mountains is 
heated during the day to a higher temperature than the 
air at the same level over the valleys or lowlands, causing 
a current up the valleys and mountain-sides; conversely, 
during the night the air at the summit is cooled by radia- 
tion to a lower temperature than the air at the same level 
over the lowlands, causing a downward surface flow of 
cold air. In narrow valley.s this current sometimes at- 
tains great strength, as in the case of the Wisper wind of 
the Rhine.- North Wind of CallfOmia,a dry, desiccat- 
ing north wind experienced on the PaciJic slope of the 
I'nited States, but especially in the Sacramento and San 
Joaquin valleys of California. When occurring during the 
growing season, it is exceedingly injurious to vegetation. 
— On extra or heavv wind, see or<jan^, o. -On the 
wind, as near as possible to the dii ection fiom wliich the 
wind blows; in the position or trimmed in the maniu-r of 
a vessel that is sailing •' by the wind," Periodic Winds. 
See def. 1. Plate of Wind, ^ee ;>;«^<.'.— Red Wind, a 
wind which blasts fruit or corn ; a hlight, JJalliirell. 
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The goodliest trees in the garden are soonest blasted 
with red winds. Abp. Sandys, Sermons, p. loa. (Davies.) 
Robin Hood wind, a wind in which the air is saturated 
with moisture at a temperature near the freezing-point, 
the moisture rendering it especially raw and penetrating ; 
a thaw- wind. — Running Of the wind. See running.— 
Second wind, a regular state of respiration attained 
during continued exertion after thebreathlessness which 
!iad arisen at an earlier stage.— Slant Of Wind. See 
s/rt7i^— Soldier's wind. See soZt/ier.- Thaw- wind, a 
wind prevailing during a thaw: in general, since it ne- 
comes saturated with moisture at a temperature only a 
little above freezing, it is peculiarly raw and penetrating. 
— To heat the wind. See beat^.—To break wind, 
carry the wind, eat up into the wind, gain the wind. 
See the verbs.- To get one's Wind, to recover one's 
breath : as, they will up and at it again when they get 
their wind. [Colloq.]— To get the Wind Of, to get on 
the windward side of. 
All the three liiskainers made toward our ship, which 
was not curelesse to get the winde of them all. 
Hakluyt's Voyages, III. 198. 
To get (take) wind, to get wind of. See get\.— rCQ 
haul the wind. See haul.— 'So have a free wind. See 
free.— To have in the wind, to be on the scent or trail 
of; perceive and follow. 
A hare had long escap'd pursuing hounds. . . . 
To save his life, heleap'd into the main, 
But there, alas ! he could no safety find, 
A pack of dog-fish had him in the wind. Swift. 
To have the wind of. Same as to have in the wind. 
My son and I will have the wind of you. 
Shak., Tit. And., iv. 2. 133. 
To keep the wind. See keep. — Too near the wind, 
mean ; stingy; cheese-paring. L^aut. slang.] — To raise 
the wind. See rais«i.— To recover the wind of. See 
recover2,—'So sail Close to the wind. («) To sail with 
the ship's head just so near to the wind as to fill the sails 
without shaking them ; sail as closely against the direc- 
tion of the wind as possible. (6) To border closely upon 
dishonesty or indecency: as, beware in dealing with him, 
he sails rather close to the wind, (c) See «a(7i. — To 
shake a vessel in the wind. See shake.— To slip 
one's wind. See slip'^.— To sow the wind and reap 
the whirlwind, to act wrongly or recklessly and in time 
be visited with the evil effects of such conduct. Hos. 
viii. 7.— To take the wind out of one's sails, see 
srtai.— To take wind, to leak out.— To touch the wind. 
See touch.— To Whistle down the wind, to whistle for 
a wind. See wAwrfZe. — Wlnd-scale. See ^raie:'. =Syn. 
1. Wind, Breeze, Gust, Flaw, Blast, Stm-in, Squall, Gale, 
Tempest, Hurricane, Tornado, Cyclone, etc. Wiiul is the 
general name for air in motion, at any rate of speed. A 
breeze is gentle and may be fitful ; a git^t is pretty strong, 
but especially sudden and brief; &_^w is essentially the 
same as gust, but may rise to the force of a squall ; a blast 
is stronger and longer than ttgust; a stonn is a violent dis- 
turbance of the atmosphere, generally attended by rain, 
hail, or snow; a squall is, a. storm that begins suddenly and 
is soon over, perhaps consisting of a series of strong gitsis; 
a gale is a violent and continued wind, lasting for hours 
or days, its strength being marked by such adjectives as 
.s(//and hard; a tempest is the stage between a gale and a 
hurricane — hurricane being the name for the wind at its 
greatest height, which is such as to destroy buildings, 
uproot trees, etc. A tornado and a cyclone are by deriva- 
tion storms in which the wind has a circular or rotatory 
movement (see defs.). 
wind'*^ (wind), V. t. ; pret. and pp. winded (in 
some uses, erroneoiisly, woiouJ), ppr. winding. 
[< ME. winden, wynden (= MD. winden = OHG. 
winton)^ expose to the wind, air; < wind'^, n. 
With reference to blowing a horn, the verb 
wind^, owing to the alternative (poetical) pron. 
wind, and prob. to some vague association of a 
horn as being usually curved, with the verb 
wind^y has been confused with the verb wind'^, 
whence tlie irreg. pret, and pp. wound. It is 
possible, however, that the irreg. pret. and pp. 
wound arose out of mere conformity with the 
other verb, as the pret. rang, pp. rung (instead 
of ringed), of the verb ring^, and the pret. wore, 
pp. irorn, of the verb wea?-'^, arose out of cou- 
t'orinity to similar forms of the similar verbs 
aing, stcear, etc.] 1. To force wind through 
with the breath ; blow; sound by blowing: as, 
to wind a Lorn: in this sense and the three fol- 
lowing pronounced wind. 
The last Miracle is the third time of ilichaels winding 
his borne, when God shall bring forth all the lewes. 
Purchas, Pilgrimage, p. 221. 
Gawain . . . raised a bugle hanging from his neck. 
And winded it, and that so musically 
That all the old echoes hidden in the wall 
Kang out like hollow woods at hunting-tide. 
Tennyson, I'elleas and Ettarre. 
2. To produce (sound) by blowing through or 
as through a wind-instrument. 
But gin ye take that bugle-honi, 
And xvind a blast sae shrill. 
Hose the Red, and White LUly (Child's Ballads, V. 178). 
3. To announce, signal, or direct by the blast 
of a horn, etc. [Rare.] 
'Twas pleasure, as we look'd behind, 
To see how thou the cliase could st wind. 
Cheer the dark blood-hound on his way. 
And with the bugle rouse the fray ! 
Scott, L. of L. M., V. 29. 
4. To perceive or follow by the wind or scent; 
nose. 
wind-break 
As when two skilful hounds the lev'ret vrind. 
Or chase thro' woods obscure the trembling hind. 
Pope, Iliad, X. 427. 
We winded thera by our noses- their perfumes be- 
trayed them. Johnson, Dryden. 
5. To expose to the wind; winnow; ventilate. 
— 6. To drive or ride hard, as a horse, so as tc 
render scant of wind. — 7. To rest, as a horse, 
in order to let him recover wind. 
windage (win'daj), «. [< wlnd'^ + -a^c] 1. 
Ingun.*. («) The difference allowed between the 
diameter of a projectile and that of the bore of 
the gun from which it is to be fired, in order to 
allow the escape of some pai*t of the explosive 
gas, and to prevent too great friction, (6) The 
rush or concussion of the air produced by the 
rapid passage of a shot. 
The last shot flying so close to Captain Portar that with 
the windage of the bullet his very hands had almost lost 
the sense of feeling. 
E. Peeke (Arber's Eng. Gamer, L 626). 
(c) The influence of the wind in deflecting a 
missile, as a ball or an arrow, from its direct 
path, or aside from the point or object at which 
it is aimed; also, the amount or extent of such 
deflection, (d) The play between the spindle 
of the De Bange gas-check and its cavity in the 
breech-screw: it is expressed in decimal parts 
of an inch, and is measured by the difference 
between the diameters of the spindle and its 
cavity. — 2. In surg., ssivae SiS wind-contusion. 
windas, windass (win'das), n. [Early mod. E. 
also windace, wyndaee; < ME. windas, wyndas, 
icindassej a windlass, < MD. windaes, I), windas 
(> OF. guindas, guyndas, F. guindas), windlass, 
lit. a ' winding-beam,' =:Icel.t'iHrfa6'5^, a rounded 
pole which can be wound round, windlass, < D. 
winden = Icel. vinda, wind (= E. wind), + aes 
= Icel. dss, pole, main rafter, sail-yard, = Goth. 
ans, a beam. Hence, by confusion with wind- 
Zfl.ssl, the modem form windlas8^.'\ If. Same as 
windlass^. 
Ther may no man out of the place it dry ve 
For noon engyn of wyndas or polyve. 
Chaucer, Squu-e's Tale, 1. 176. 
Gete som crosse bowia, and leyndaes to bynd them with, 
and quairels. Paston Letters, I. 82. 
2. A fanner for winnowing grain. Jamieson. 
[Scotch.] 
windbag (wind'bag), H. A bag filled with wind; 
hence, a person of mere words ; a noisy, empty 
pretender. [Slang.] 
Windball(wind'bal), «. 1. A ball inflated with 
air; a balloon. 
Generally the high stile is disgraced and made foolish 
and riiliculous by all wordes affected, counterfait, and 
puffed vp, as it were a teindball carrying more countenance 
then matter. Puttenhani, Arte of Eng. Poesie, p. 165. 
2. In surg., a cause of death or injury formerly 
supposed to lie in the passage of a projectile 
in close proximity to the person injured. See 
wind-contusion. 
Where life is destroyed by the influence of the teind- 
ball. J. M. Carnochan, Operative Surgery, p. 279. 
wind-band (wind'band), n. 1. A company of 
musicians who nse only or principally wind-in- 
struments; a brass or military band. — 2. The 
wind-instruments of an orchestra or band taken 
collectively. See wind^, 8. — 3. A long cloud 
supposed to indicate stormy weather. HalU- 
welh [Prov. Eng.] 
wind-beam (wind'bem), n. A beam tying to- 
gether the rafters of a pitched roof: same as 
coUar-heam. 
windberry (wind'ber'i), n. ; pi. triwdfcem^* (-iz). 
The cowberry, Vaccinium Fitis-Idsea. Britten 
and Holland. [Prov. Eng.] 
wind-bill (wind'bil), n. In Scots law, an ac- 
commodation bill. See accommodation. 
wind-bore (wiud'bor), n. 1. The extremity of 
the suction-pipe of a pump, usually covered 
with a perforated plate to prevent the intru- 
sion of foreign substances. — 2. In?«*«»H^, same 
as snore-piece. 
windbound (wind 'bound), o. Prevented from 
sailing by contrary winds; detained by con- 
trary winds : as, windbound ships. 
The next day we fasted, being tcindbound, and could not 
passe the sound. 
(.Quoted in Capt. John Smith's Works, I. 90. 
wind-brace (wind'bras), n. See hrace^. 
wind-break (wind'brak), n. Something to 
break tlie force of the wind, as a hedge, a board 
fence, or a row of evergreen trees; any shelter 
from the wind. 
Inder the lee of some shelving bank or other tcind- 
break. T. Roosevelt, Hunting Trips, p. 176. 
