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To Wind up. To put in order for regular action: from 
a watch. 
O you kind gods! 
Cure this great breach of his abused nature; 
Th’ untun’d and jarring senses, O, wind up. 
Of this child-chang’d father. Skakspeare. 
To WIND, v. n. To turn; to change. 
So swift your judgments turn and wind. 
You cast our fleetest wits a mile behind. Dry den. 
To turn; to be convolved.—Some plants can support 
themselves, and some others creep along the ground, or wind 
about other trees, and cannot support themselves. Bacon. 
—To move round. 
If aught obstruct thy course, yet stand not still, 
But wind about till thou hast topp’d the hill. Denham. 
To proceed in flexures. 
It shall not wind with such a deep indent, 
As rob me of so rich a bottom here. Skakspeare. 
He winds with ease 
Through the pure marble air his oblique way, 
Amongst innumerable stars. Milton. 
Wound is commonly the preterite. Pope has used winded. 
Swift ascending from the azure wave. 
He took the path that winded to the cave. Pope. 
To be extricated; to be disentangled : with ou t. 
Long labouring underneath, ere they could wind 
Out of such prison. Milton. 
WINDAU, a town of Courland, on the Baltic, near the 
mouth of the river VYindau. It has no harbour, but a large 
roadstead, rendered secure by sand-banks, which break the 
swell of the sea. It carries on a considerable trade in the ex¬ 
port of articles from the interior, viz. corn, timber, flax, hides, 
tallow ; also salt meat. It was formerly the place of meeting 
of the states of Courland, and is said to have been of more 
consequence than at present. It has a citadel, and is 70 
miles west-north-west of Mittau. Its population is only 
1000. 
WI'NDBOUND, adj. Confined by contrary winds. 
Yet not for this the windbound navy weigh’d ; 
Slack were their sails, and Neptune disobey’d. Dry den, 
WINDECK, a small town of Prussian Westphalia, in the 
duchy of Berg ; 24 miles east of Bonn. 
WINDECKEN, a town of Germany, in Hesse Cassel, on 
the river Nidder; 5 miles north-west of Hanau. Population 
1000 . 
Wl'NDEGG, s. An egg not impregnated; an egg that 
does not contain the principles of life.—Sound eggs sink, and 
such as are addled swim: as do also those termed hype* 
nemia, or windeggs. Brown. 
WINDER, s. An instrument or person by which any 
thing is turned round. 
The winder shows his workmanship so rare 
As doth the fleece excel, and mocks her looser clew ; 
As neatly bottom’d up as nature forth it drew. Drayton. 
A plant that twists itself round others.—Plants that put 
forth their sap hastily, have their bodies not proportionable 
to their length ; and therefore they are winders and creepers, 
as ivy and bryony. Bacon. —A winding step in a staircase. 
Mason. 
WINDER, a township of England, in Cumberland; 5 
miles from Whitehaven. 
WINDER, High and Low, adjoining hamlets of Eng¬ 
land, in Westmoreland ; 13 miles west-by-north of Appleby. 
WINDERHAUSEN, a village of Germany, in Wirtem- 
berg. Population 800. 
WlNDEWEER, a village of the Netherlands, with 1300 
inhabitants; 10 miles south-east of Groningen. 
WINDFALL, s. Fruit blown down from the tree.— 
Their boughs were too great for their stem, they became a 
windfall upon the sudden. Bacon. —An unexpected legacy ; 
679 
any unexpected advantage.—He had a mighty windfall out 
of doubt. B. Jonson . 
WINDFALLEN, adj. Blown down by the wind.—To 
gather windfal'n sticks, his greatest care. Drayton. 
WINDFLOWER, s. The anemone. A flower. 
WFNDGALL, s. Windgalls are soft, yielding, flatulent 
tumours or bladders, full of corrupt jelly, which grow upon 
each side of the fetlock joints, and are so painful in hot wea¬ 
ther and hard ways, that they make a horse to halt. They 
are caused by violent straining, or by a horse’s standing on a 
sloping floor, or from extreme labour and heat, or by blows. 
Farrier's Diet. —His horse infected with the fashions, full of 
windgalls, and sped with spavins. Skakspeare. 
WI'NDGUN, s. Gun which discharges the bullet by 
means of wind compressed.—The windgun is charged by 
the forcible compression of air, being injected through a 
syringe; the strife and distention of the imprisoned air 
serving, by the help of little falls or shuts within, to stop 
and keep close the vents by which it was admitted. Wil¬ 
kins. 
Forc’d from windguns, lead itself can fly. 
And ponderous slugs cut swiftly through the sky. Pope. 
WINDHAM, a post township of the United States, in 
Cumberland county, Maine; 130 miles north-north-east of 
Boston. Population 1613.—2. A township of Windham 
county, Vermont; 25 miles south-west of Windsor. Popu¬ 
lation 782.—3. A post township of Rockingham county. 
New Hampshire; 34 miles north-north-west of Boston. Po¬ 
pulation 742.—4. A post township and village of the 
United States, and capital of Windham county, Connecticut. 
The township is watered by the Shetucket; and the village 
contains a court-house, a jail, an academy, and a congrega¬ 
tional meeting-house. A weekly newspaper is published 
here; 12 miles north-north-west of Norwich. Population 
2416.-—5. A post township of Greene county. New York. 
Population 3965. 
WINDHAM, a county of the United States, in the south¬ 
east part of Vermont, bounded north by Windsor county, 
east by Connecticut river, south by Massachusetts, and west 
by Bennington county. Chief town Newfane. Population 
26,760. 
WINDHAM, a county of the United States, in Connec¬ 
ticut, bounded north and east by Massachusetts, south by 
New London county, and west by Tolland county. Popu¬ 
lation 28,611. 
WINDHAM, Point, a cape on the south-east of the en¬ 
trance into Stephens’s Passage, on the west coast of North 
America. Lat. 57. 31. N. long, 226. 36. E. 
WINDHAUSEN, a large village of Germany, in the 
principality of Schwarzburg Rudolstadt. 
W1NDHEADFELL, a mountain of Scotland, in Rox- 
burgshire, elevated 2000 feet above the level of the sea. 
WINDINESS, s. Fulness of wind; flatulence.—A 
windiness and puffing up of your stomach after dinner, and 
in the morning. Harvey. —Tendency to generate wind.— 
Sena loseth somewhat of its windiness by decocting; and, 
generally, subtile or windy spirits are taken off by incension 
or evaporation. Bacon. —Tumour; puffiness.—From this 
his modest and humble charity, virtues which rarely cohabit 
with the swelling windiness of much knowledge, issued this. 
Brerewood. 
WINDING, s. Flexure; meander.-—It was the pleasant¬ 
est voyage in the world to follow the windings cf this river 
Inn, through such a variety of pleasing scenes as the course 
of it naturally led us. Addison. 
The ways of heaven are dark and intricate ; 
Our understanding traces them in vain, 
Nor sees with how much art the windings run. 
Nor where the regular confusion ends. Addison. 
WINDINGSHEET, s. A sheet in which the dead are 
enwrapped. 
These arms of mine shall be thy windingsheet: 
My heart, sweet boy, shall be thy sepulchre; 
For from my heart thine image ne’er shall go. Skakspeare. 
WINDISCH, 
