windmilly 
A windmULy country this, though the wjndmina are so 
damp and rickety. Dickciis, Uncommercial Traveller, xxv. 
windockt.winnockCwin'dok, win'ok), n. Same 
as wiitdoic. [ISeotch.] 
Thefoirsaidis — wer diuerss and syndrie tymes callit at 
the tolbuith wiiidok. 
Act« James VI. (1581), p. 289. (Jamieson.) 
Listening the doors and winnocks rattle. 
Bunts, A Winter Night. 
windolett, «• A false spelling of tcindowkt. 
windoret (win'dor), «. [A perversion of win- 
dote, simulating door.'\ A window. 
Nature has made man's breast no windores, 
To publish what he does within doors. 
S. Butler, Hudibras, II. ii. 369, 
window (win'do), n. [Early mod. E. windowe; 
< ME. windowe, wyndowe, windof/e, icindohe (the 
orig. guttural showing in the Sc. windak, win- 
dock, winnock), < leel. vindauya (= Norw. vin- 
dauga = Dan. vinduc for "vindtije, the form 
vindiic being prob. < Icel.), window, lit. ' wind- 
eye,' < vindr, wind, + aiKja, eye: see wind^ and 
eye^, n. The AS. words were «a(7rfi/ra,'eyedoor,' 
and edgthyrl, 'eyethirl,' i. e. 'eyehole.' The G. 
word for window is fcnsUr = Sw. fonfitcr, from 
the L.] 1. An ojjeniiig in the wall of a building 
forthe admission of light and air. In modern build- 
ings this opening is usually fitted with a frame in which 
are set movable sashes containing panes of glass or other 
transparent material, the whole frame with the sashes, etc.. 
also being known as the window. Many windows are not 
designed to be opened. Glass was employed in windows 
among the ancient Romans, and came into extensive use 
among other nations in the course of the eleventh cen- 
tury. See cut* under bat^meiU-litfht, muIti/oU, rose-win- 
dow, and wheel-window. 
Fowerti dais after this, 
Arches wiiultuje undon it is ; 
The Rauen ut^fleg, hu so it gan ben, 
Ne cam he nogt to the arche a-gen. 
Qenenis and Exodut (E. E. T. .S.), 1. 602. 
My chanibre was 
Ful wel depeynted, and with glas 
Were al the wiiidowes wel y-glased, 
Ful clere, and nat an hole y-crased. 
Chaucer, Death of Blanche, 1. 323. 
The prentices made a riot upon my glass windows the 
Shrove-Tuesday following. 
Dekker and Webster, Northward Ho, iv. 4. 
2. An aperture or opening resembling a win- 
dow or suggestive of a window. 
The tin'ndow* of heaven. Gen. vii. U. 
The window of my heart, mine eye. 
Shak., L. L. L., v. 2. 848. 
Hence — 3. In anat., one of two holes in the 
inner wall of the tympanum, called respectively 
the oval window and the round window, fenestra 
ovalis and fenestra rotunda. See fenestra. — 
4. A cover; a lid. 
Ere I let fall the un.ndows of mine eyes. 
Shak., Rich. III., v. 3. 110. 
6. A figure formed by lines crossing one an- 
other. 
The Fav*rite child, that just begins to prattle, . . . 
Is very humorsome, and makes great clutter. 
He has Windows on his Bread and Butter. 
W. Kinij, Art of Cookery. 
6t. A blank space. 
I will, therefore, that you send unto me a collation 
thereof; and that your said collation have a window ex- 
pedient to set what name I will therein. 
Cranmer, Works (Parker Soc.), II. 249. 
Back of a window. .See 6ac*i.— Blind window. See 
Ntndi.— Clnatered window, a window conssisting of 
three or more lights grouped together. Examples are 
especially frequt'iit in medieval architecture. —Coupled 
Windows, dormant wlndowt, false window, fan- 
shaped window. Hee the adjectives, and cuts under 
coupled windows and dormer-irindou: — French Window. 
a window having two sa-shes hinged at the sides, and 
opening in the middle. — Goldsmiths' window, a very 
nch claim in which the gold shows f ret-Iy. [M ining slang, 
Australia.]— House Out of Windowst. See housed.— 
Jesse Window. Sec J«««ei. — Lattice-window. Seei«( 
Uce, 2 (with cut).— Low side window. Same as bjchno- 
«cope. — Oriel- Window. ■'*ee <inel (with cut). StOOl Of 
a window. See rfooi— Venetian window, a window 
which has three separate lights. — Window tax. Window 
duty, a tax formerly levied in Great Ilritain on windows 
of houses, latt^-Tly on all in excess of six in number. It 
was abolished in 1851, a tax on houses above a certain 
rental being substituted. (See also rfor;/jer-jci;(rfo(r, ;a;M;^(- 
windou; rose-window, wheel-windmr.) 
window (win'do), r. t. [< window, h.] 1. To 
furnish with a window or with windows. 
Within a window'd niche of that high hall 
.Sate Brunswick's fated chieftain 
Bt/ron, fhilde Harold, iii 23 
2. To make openings or rents in. 
Your loop'd and window'd raggcdness. 
Shak., Lear, iii. 4. 31. 
3. To place in a window. 
Wouldst thou be window'd in great Rome and see 
Thy master thus'; Shak. , A. and C, iv. 14. 72. 
window-bar (win'do-biir), H. 1. One of the 
parts of the frame of a window or window-sash. 
6937 
— 2. A bar of wood or iron for securing a win- 
dow or the shutters of it when closed. — 3. A 
horizontal bar fitted in a window or doorway, 
to prevent a child from falling through. — 4. 
pi. Latticework, as on a woman's stomacher. 
Shak., T. of A.,iv. 3. 116. 
window-blind (win 'do-blind), n. A 'blind, 
screen, or shade for a window. See J/iiirfl. 
■window-bole (win'do-bol), «. Same as bole*, 1. 
I was out on the window-bole when your auld back was 
turned, and awa' down by to hae a batf at the popinjay. 
Scott, Old Mortolity, vii. 
'WindoW-CUrtain (win'd6-ker'''tan), n. Same as 
curtain, 1 (/)). 
■window-frame (win'do-fram), n. The frame 
of a window, which receives and holds the 
sashes. 
'Window-gardening ( win'd6-gard'''ning), n. The 
cultivation of plants indoors before a window. 
The boxes used in windoic-gardenin(f are made of a great 
variety of materials, etc. Henderson, Handbook of Plants. 
'Window-gazer (win'd6-ga''''zer), )(. An idler ; 
one who gazes idly from a window. 
Her sonnes gluttonous, her daughters window-gazers, 
Guevara, Letters (tr. by Hellowes, 1577), p. 304. 
■window-glass (win'do-glas), «. Glass suitable 
for windows, or such as is commonly used for 
windows, especially the commoner kinds, as dis- 
tinguished from plate-glass or other more cost- 
ly varieties — Spread window-glass. Same as broad 
glass (which see, under broad). 
window-jack (wiu'd6-jak), n. Same as builders' 
jack: (which see, under jack). 
window-latch (win'do-lach), ,>. A catch or 
locking-device for holding a window-sash open 
or shut. 
'window-lead ( win'do-led), ». Same as earned, 2. 
Windowless (win'do-les), a. [< window + -less.'] 
Destitute of windows. 
It is usual ... to huddle them together into naked 
walls and windoivtess rooms. 
//. Brooke, Fool of Quality, I. 377. (Davies.) 
I stood still at this end, which, being wittdotdess, was 
dark. Charlotte Bronte, Jane EjTC, xvii. 
windowlet (win'do-let), «. [< window -I- -let.} 
A little window. 
If wak'd they cannot see, their eyes are blind. 
Shut up like windolets. 
Middleton, Solomon Paraphrased, xvii. 
'Window-lift (win'do-litt), H. A strap or a han- 
dle by which to raise a window-sash, especially 
in a carriage or a raihvay-car. 
'Window-lock (win'do-lok), n. A device for 
fastening the sash of a window so that it can- 
not be opened from the outside. 
■window-martin ( win'd6-miir''tin), H. The com- 
mon martin of Europe, Chelidon urbica; the 
house-martin or window-swallow. See cut un- 
der martin. 
■window-mirror (win'do-mir'or), 11. A mirror 
fastened outside of a window and adjustable at 
any angle, to reflect the image of objects in the 
street to the view of persons in the room, who 
may thus see without being seen. 
■window-opener (win'd6-6p'''ner), n. A lever 
or rod by vvliicli a window, ventilator, sash, a 
panel in the raised roof of a railway-car, etc., 
may be opened and held in any desired posi- 
tion. 
■window-oyster (wiii'do-ois'tfer), ». A bivalve 
mollusk of the family I'lacunidse, rUirnna pla- 
centa. Also window-shell. 
■window-pane (win'do-pan). «. l. One of the 
oblong or square plates of glass set in a win- 
dow-frame. — 2. The sand-flounder. [New Jer- 
sey.] 
window-sash (win'do-sash), H. The sash or 
light frame in which panes of glass are set for 
windows. See sa.'ih^. 
window-screen (win'do-skren), n. Any device 
for filling all or part of the opening of a win- 
dow, particularly if it is ornamental, as the 
pierced lattices of the Arabs ; also, the glass 
filling of a stained or painted window. 
Chartres [cathedral], . . . singularly fortunate in re- 
taining its magnificent jewel-like window-screens. 
C. II. Moore, (Jothtc Architecture, p. 304. 
window-seat (win'do-set), n. A seat in the re- 
cess of ;i window. 
window-sector (win'd6-sek"tor), H. A bar or 
plate of metal in the form of a sector of a circle, 
u.sed to control the movement and position of 
a window or ventilator in the raised roof of a 
railway-car. E. If. liniyht. 
window-shade (win'dcj-shad). n. A contrivance 
for shutting out or tempering light at a window; 
a variety of window-blind, usually a piece of 
holland or similar material, arranged to roll up 
■wind-sail 
on a roller, and to cover the window when pulled 
out. 
■window-shell (win'do-shel), «. Same as win- 
dow-oyster. 
window-shutt (win'do-shut), n. A window- 
shutter. 
"When you bar the window-shuts of your lady's bed-cham- 
ber at nights, leave open the sashes. 
Swift, Advice to Servants (Chamber-maid). 
window-shutter (win'd6-shut'''er), H. A shutter 
used to darken or secure a window. 
■window-sill (win'do-sil), n. The sill of a win- 
dow. See S///1, 1. 
■window-stile (win'do-stil), n. One of the ver- 
tical bars in a window-sash. 
■window-stool (win'do-stol), n. See stool. 
'WindO'Wyt (win'do-i), a. [< window -I- -i/1.] Ex- 
hibiting intersecting lines or little crossings like 
those of the sashes of a window. 
Poor fish, beset 
With strangling snare, or windowy net. 
Donne, The Bait. 
'windpipe (wind'pip), n. [Early mod. E. wijnd- 
pypc; < wind'i -\- pipe'^, it.] The tube passing 
from the larynx to the division of the bronchi 
which conveys the air in respiration to and from 
the lungs. See trachea, and cut under mouth. 
■wind-plant (wind'plant), n. The wind-flower. 
Anemone ncmorosa. See cut under anemone. 
wind-pole (wind'pol), n. See the quotation. 
Taking, with Dov^, north-east and south-west (true) as 
the wind-poles, all intermediate directions are found to be 
more or less assimilated to the characteristics of those 
extremes, as they are nearer one or other. 
Fitz Roy, Weather Book, p. 173. 
■wind-pox (wind'poks), ». Varicella or chicken- 
pox. 
■wind-pressure (wind'presh"ur),ji. 1. Thepres- 
sure of the wind on any object in its path. The 
pressure of the wind blowing perpendicularly on a flat 
surface is usually deduced from its velocity by means 
of the equation P = kAV'-, where P is the pressure in 
pounds, V the velocity in feet per second, A the area of 
the surface in scpiare feet, and k a nunierical constant 
whose value for ordinary temperatures and barometric 
pressures is variously given from 0.0015 to 0.0022. 
2. In organ-building, the degree of compression 
in the compressed air in the storage-bellows and 
the wind-chests. 
■wind-pump (wind'pump), n. A pump moved 
by wind. 
Wind-record (wind't'ek^ord), w. A record of 
wind velocities or directions : especially, a con- 
tinuous registration made by an anemograph 
or self-recording anemometer; an anemogi'am. 
'Windringt (win'dring), a. [Possibly a misread- 
ing for winding or wandering.] Winding. 
You nymphs, ciill'd Naiads, of the ivindring brotiks. 
Shak., Tempest, iv. 1. 128. 
'wind-rode (wind'rod), a. Xaut., riding with 
head to wind instead of to current. Compare 
tide-rode. 
'Wind-root (wind'rot), H. The pleurisy-root, 
Asclepias tubcrosa. 
'Wind-rose (wind'roz), Ji. 1. A table or diagram 
showing the relative frequency of winds blow- 
ing from the difl'erent ]>oints of the compass, 
or the relative amount of total wind-movement 
for each direction ; also, a table or diagram 
showing the connection between the wind-di- 
rection and any other meteorological element : 
thus, a thermal wind-ro.-ie shows the average 
temperature prevailing with winds from difl'er- 
ent directions. — 2. See ro.^e^ and llwnieria. 
'windrow (wind'ro), n. [Also, corrujitly, win- 
row ; < uinfP -h row'^, «.] 1. A row or line of 
hay raked together for the purpose of being 
rolled into cocks or heaps; also, sheaves of corn 
set u]j in a row one against another in order 
that the wind may blow between them. — 2. A 
row of peats set up for drying; a row of pieces 
of turf, sod, or sward cut in paring an<l burn- 
ing. — 3. Any similar row or formation; an ex- 
tended heap, as of dust thrown up by the wind. 
Each day's dust, before the next day canu;, was swejjt 
into inndrows ov whirled away altctgether by intermittent 
gusts charging up the slope from the valley. 
The Century, XXXI. Ki. 
4. The green border of a field, dug up in or<l('r 
to carry the earth to other land to mend it: so 
called because laid in rows and exposed to the 
wind. Hay, Eng. Words (1691), p. 120. 
windrow (wind'ro), r. t. [< windrow, ».] To 
rake or put into the foi'in of a windrow. 
wind-sail (wind'sal), H. 1. A wide tube or 
funnel of canvas serving to convey a current 
of fresh air into the lower jinrts of n. siii]). — 2. 
One of the vanes or sails of a windniill To 
trim a wind-sail, to turn the opening of the wind-sail 
toward the wind. 
