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general better taught, and more civil, than persons in the 
same situation in most other places. The provisions which 
the neighbouring country produces are of the very best qua¬ 
lity ; the covers also abound with game, and the rivers teem 
with trout and other fish. Its situation, in the vicinity of the 
sea, with which there is a direct communication by a navi¬ 
gable canal, at least as ancient as the reign of king John, is 
also the means of its obtaining the heavy commodities and 
merchandize of other countries, at a reasonable rate. When 
in the height of its prosperity, and possessing the benefit of 
the wool-staple, its wealth was greatly increased by the mul¬ 
titudes that flocked to its different fairs. Beyond the river 
Itchin, east, is a high hill, called St. Giles’s, from an hospital 
whose ruins only are' now visible. The markets are held on 
Wednesday and Saturday, and are well supplied with all 
kinds of provisions, poultry, fish, &c. Its fairs are the first 
Monday in Lent, and 24th October, held in the city; on the 
2d August, held on Magdalen Hill; 12th September, on St. 
Giles’s Hill; 11|- miles north-north-east of Southampton, and 
62f south-west-by-west of London. Population 6705. 
WINCHESTER, a township of the United States, in 
Green county, Ohio, on Anderson’s creek, 7 miles from 
Xenia. 
WINCHESTER, a post town, borough, and capital of the 
United States, in Frederick county, Virginia; 30 miles south¬ 
west of Harper’s Ferry, 70 west-north-west of Washington, 95 
north-east of Staunton, and 150 north-north-west of Rich¬ 
mond. Population about3000. Lat. 39.16. N. long. 77.28. W. 
WINCHESTER, a post town of the United States, and 
capital of Clark county, Kentucky, on a branch of Licking 
river. Population 538.—2. A post township of Franklin 
county, Tennessee, in Elk river; 35 miles east-by-north of 
Fayetteville. 
WINCHESTER, a town of the United States, and capital 
of New Madrid county, Missouri territory ; 22 miles north 
of New Madrid. 
WINCHFIELD, a parish of England, in Southampton- 
shire; 3 miles north-east of Odiham. 
WINCHLEIGH, or Winkley, a parish of England, in 
Devonshire; 5 miles south-west of Chulmleigh. Popula¬ 
tion 1168. 
WINCLE, a township of England, in Cheshire ; 6 miles 
south-east of Macclesfield. 
WI'NCOPIPE, s. There is a small red flower in the 
Stubble fields, which country people call the wincopipc; 
which, if it opens in the morning, you may be sure a fair 
day will follow. Bacon. 
WIND, s. [pmb, Saxon; wind, Dutch; winds, M. 
Goth.; wind, Icel, vox antiquiss. Celto-Scythica, ac forte 
4 simpliciori M. Goth, wajan, Germ, wehen, spirare. Sere- 
niusl] Wind is when any track of air moves from the place 
it is in, to any other, with an impetus that is sensible to us, 
wherefore it was not ill called by the ancients, a swifter course 
of air; a flowing wave of air ; a flux, effusion, or stream of 
air. Muschenbroeh. —The worthy fellow is our general. 
He’s the rock, the oak not to be wind shaken. Shahspeare. 
—Direction of the blast from a particular point. As east¬ 
ward; westward. 
I’ll give thee a wind. 
I myself have all the other, 
And the very points they blow; 
All the quarters that they know 
I’ the shipman’s card. Shahspeare. 
Breath; power or act of respiration.—If my wind were 
but long enough to say my prayers, I would repent. Shah¬ 
speare. —Air caused by any action. 
On each side her 
Stood pretty dimpled boys, like smiling Cupids 
With divers colour’d fans, whose wind did seem 
To glow the delicate cheeks which they did cool. 
Shahspeare 
Breath modulated by an instrument. 
Their instruments were various in their kind, 
Some for the bow, and some for breathing wind. Dryden, 
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Air impregnated with scent. 
A hare had long escap’d pursuing hounds, 
By often shifting into distant grounds, 
Till finding all his artifices vain. 
To save his life, he leap’d into the main. 
But there, alas ! he could not safety find, 
A pack of dog-fish had him in the wind. Swift. 
Flatulence; windiness. 
It turns 
Wisdom to folly, as nourishment to wind. Milton. 
Any thing insignificant or light as wind. 
Down the Wind. To decay.—A man that had a great 
veneration for an image in his house, found that the more he 
prayed to it to prosper him in the world, the more he went 
down the wind still. L'Estrange. 
To tahe or have the Wind. To gain or have the upper 
hand.—Let a king in council beware how he opens his own 
inclinations too much, for else counsellors will but take the 
wind of him ; instead of giving free council. Bacon. 
To WIND, v. a. preter. wound; sometimes, though 
rarely, winded; part, wound, [pin tl ban, Saxon win den, 
Dutch.] To blow; to sound by inflation.—I will have a 
recheat winded. Shahspeare. —To turn round; to twist.—- 
Wind the woodbine round this arbour. Milton. —To re¬ 
gulate in motion ; to turn to this or that direction. 
He vaulted with such ease into his seat, 
As if an angel dropt down from the clouds, 
To turn and wind a fiery pegasus, 
And witch the world with noble horsemanship. Shahspeare. 
To nose; to follow by scent. 
In a commonwealth or realm, 
The government is called the helm ; 
With which, like vessels under sail. 
They’re turn’d and winded by the tail. Iludibras. 
To ventilate. To turn by shifts or expedients. 
Whence turning of religion’s made 
The means to turn and wind a trade. Hudihras. 
To introduce by insinuation. 
You have contriv’d to take 
From Rome all season’d offices, and to wind 
Yourself into a power tyrannical. Shahspeare. 
To change.—Were our legislature vested in the prince, he 
might wind and turn our constitution at his pleasure, and 
shape our government to his fancy. Addison. —To entwist; 
to enfold ; - to encircle.—Sleep thou, and I will wind thee in 
my arms. Shahspeare. 
To Wind out. To extricate.—When he found himself 
dangerously embarked, he bethought himself of all possible 
ways to disentangle himself, and to wind himself out of the 
labyrinth he was in. Clarendon. 
To Wind up. To bring to a small compass, as a bottom 
of thread.—Without solemnly winding up one argument, 
and intimating that he began another, he lets his thoughts, 
which were fully possessed of the matter, run in one conti¬ 
nued strain. Locke. 
To Wind up. To convolve the spring.— I frown the 
while, and perchance wind up my watch, or play with some 
rich jewel. Shahspeare. 
To Wind up. To put into a state of renovated or con¬ 
tinued motion. 
Fate seemed to wind him up for fourscore years. 
Yet freshly ran he on, ten winters more : 
Till like a clock worn out with calling time, 
The wheels of weary life at last stood still. Dry den. 
To Wind zip. To raise by degrees.—These he did so 
wind up to his purpose that they withdrew from the court. 
Hayward. 
To Wind up. To straighten a string by turning that on 
which it is rolled ; to put in tune. 
Your lute may wind its strings but little higher 
To tune their notes to that immortal quire. Prior. 
To 
