Etymology : Middle English, from Old English; akin to Old High German wint wind, Latin ventus, Greek aEnai to blow, Sanskrit vAti it blows
Pronunciation : 'wind,
archaic or poetic Function : noun
Date : before 12th century
1. breeze; direction of the wind; gale; breath; wind instrument (Music); intestinal gas; social or political current; hint; nonsense; conceit. air out, ventilate; blow a wind instrument; make sound by blowing; search out by smell; cause to be out of breath; catch one´s breath. act of twisting or turning; bend; curve. turn, coil; twist around, convolute; meander; bind, bandage; be bound; be twisted around; change direction. see:
in da wind. wind\wind\ , v. t. [imp. & p. p. wound (wound) (rarely winded); p. pr. & vb. n. winding.] [oe. winden, as. windan; akin to os. windan, d. & g. winden, ohg. wintan, icel. & sw. vinda, dan. vinde, goth. windan (in comp.). cf. wander, wend.].
2. to turn completely, or with repeated turns; especially, to turn about something fixed; to cause to form convolutions about anything; to coil; to twine; to twist; to wreathe; as, to wind thread on a spool or into a ball. whether to wind the woodbine round this arbor.
3. to entwist; to infold; to encircle. sleep, and i will wind thee in arms.
4. to have complete control over; to turn and bend at one's pleasure; to vary or alter or will; to regulate; to govern. "to turn and wind a fiery pegasus." in his terms so he would him wind. gifts blind the wise, and bribes do please and wind all other witnesses. were our legislature vested in the prince, he might wind and turn our constitution at his pleasure.
5. to introduce by insinuation; to insinuate. you have contrived to wind yourself into a power tyrannical. little arts and dexterities they have to wind in such things into discourse. --gov. of tongue.
6. to cover or surround with something coiled about; as, to wind a rope with twine.
7. To turn completely, or with repeated turns; especially, to turn about something fixed; to cause to form convolutions about anything; to coil; to twine; to twist; to wreathe; as, to wind thread on a spool or into a ball.
8. To entwist; to infold; to encircle.
9. To have complete control over; to turn and bend at one's pleasure; to vary or alter or will; to regulate; to govern.
10. To introduce by insinuation; to insinuate.
11. To cover or surround with something coiled about; as, to wind a rope with twine.
12. To turn completely or repeatedly; to become coiled about anything; to assume a convolved or spiral form; as, vines wind round a pole.
13. To have a circular course or direction; to crook; to bend; to meander; as, to wind in and out among trees.
14. To go to the one side or the other; to move this way and that; to double on one's course; as, a hare pursued turns and winds.
15. The act of winding or turning; a turn; a bend; a twist; a winding.
16. Air naturally in motion with any degree of velocity; a current of air.
17. Air artificially put in motion by any force or action; as, the wind of a cannon ball; the wind of a bellows.
18. Breath modulated by the respiratory and vocal organs, or by an instrument.
19. Power of respiration; breath.
20. Air or gas generated in the stomach or bowels; flatulence; as, to be troubled with wind.
21. Air impregnated with an odor or scent.
22. A direction from which the wind may blow; a point of the compass; especially, one of the cardinal points, which are often called the four winds.
23. A disease of sheep, in which the intestines are distended with air, or rather affected with a violent inflammation.
24. It occurs immediately after shearing.
25. Mere breath or talk; empty effort; idle words.
26. The dotterel.
27. To expose to the wind; to winnow; to ventilate.
28. To perceive or follow by the scent; to scent; to nose; as, the hounds winded the game.
29. To drive hard, or force to violent exertion, as a horse, so as to render scant of wind; to put out of breath.
30. To rest, as a horse, in order to allow the breath to be recovered; to breathe.
31. To blow; to sound by blowing; esp., to sound with prolonged and mutually involved notes.
32. The region of the pit of the stomach, where a blow may paralyze the diaphragm and cause temporary loss of breath or other injury; the mark. the act of winding or twisting; "he put the key in the old clock and gave it a good wind" breath; "the collision knocked the wind out of him" empty rhetoric or insincere or exaggerated talk; "that's a lot of wind"; "don't give me any of that jazz" a tendency or force that influences events; "the winds of change" air moving from an area of high pressure to an area of low pressure; "trees bent under the fierce winds"; "when there is no wind, row"; "the radioactivity was being swept upwards by the air current and out into the atmosphere" coil the spring of by turning a stem; "wind your watch" wrap or coil around; "roll your hair around your finger"; "Twine the thread around the spool" extend in curves and turns; "The road winds around the lake".
33. Movement of air relative to the surface of the Earth. Wind is an important factor in determining and controlling climate and weather. It is also the generating force of most ocean and freshwater waves. Wind occurs because of horizontal and vertical differences in atmospheric pressure. The general pattern of winds over the Earth is known as the general circulation, and specific winds are named for the direction from which they originate (e.g., a wind blowing from west to east is a westerly). Wind speeds are often classified according to the Beaufort scale. solar wind Wind Cave National Park wind chill wind power Wind River Range wind shear wind tunnel.
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