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   Wind , v. t. [imp. & p. p. 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.]
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   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.
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   Whether to wind
   The woodbine round this arbor.
   Milton.
   
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   To entwist; to infold; to encircle.
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   Sleep, and I will wind thee in arms.
   Shak.
   
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   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.”
   Shak.
   
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   In his terms so he would him wind.
   Chaucer.
   
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   Gifts blind the wise, and bribes do please
   And wind all other witnesses.
   Herrick.
   
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   Were our legislature vested in the prince, he might wind and turn our constitution at his pleasure.
   Addison.
   
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   To introduce by insinuation; to insinuate.
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   You have contrived . . . to wind
   Yourself into a power tyrannical.
   Shak.
   
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   Little arts and dexterities they have to wind in such things into discourse.
   Gov. of Tongue.
   
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   To cover or surround with something coiled about; as, to wind a rope with twine.
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   To wind off, to unwind; to uncoil. -- To wind out, to extricate. [Obs.] Clarendon. -- To wind up. (a) To coil into a ball or small compass, as a skein of thread; to coil completely. (b) To bring to a conclusion or settlement; as, to wind up one's affairs; to wind up an argument. (c) To put in a state of renewed or continued motion, as a clock, a watch, etc., by winding the spring, or that which carries the weight; hence, to prepare for continued movement or action; to put in order anew. “Fate seemed to wind him up for fourscore years.” Dryden. “Thus they wound up his temper to a pitch.” Atterbury. (d) To tighten (the strings) of a musical instrument, so as to tune it. “Wind up the slackened strings of thy lute.” Waller.
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   Wind , v. i.
   To turn completely or repeatedly; to become coiled about anything; to assume a convolved or spiral form; as, vines wind round a pole.
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   So swift your judgments turn and wind.
   Dryden.
   
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   To have a circular course or direction; to crook; to bend; to meander; as, to wind in and out among trees.
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   And where the valley winded out below,
   The murmuring main was heard, and scarcely heard, to flow.
   Thomson.
   
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   He therefore turned him to the steep and rocky path which . . . winded through the thickets of wild boxwood and other low aromatic shrubs.
   Sir W. Scott.
   
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   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.
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   The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea.
   Gray.
   
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   To wind out, to extricate one's self; to escape.
   Long struggling underneath are they could wind
   Out of such prison.
   Milton.
   
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   Wind , n. The act of winding or turning; a turn; a bend; a twist; a winding.
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   Wind , n. [AS. wind; akin to OS., OFries., D., & G. wind, OHG. wint, Dan. & Sw. vind, Icel. vindr, Goth winds, W. gwynt, L. ventus, Skr. vāta (cf. Gr. ἀήτης a blast, gale, ἀῆναι to breathe hard, to blow, as the wind); originally a p. pr. from the verb seen in Skr. vā to blow, akin to AS. wāwan, D. waaijen, G. wehen, OHG. wāen, wājen, Goth. waian. √131. Cf. Air, Ventail, Ventilate, Window, Winnow.]
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   Air naturally in motion with any degree of velocity; a current of air.
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   Except wind stands as never it stood,
   It is an ill wind that turns none to good.
   Tusser.
   
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   Winds were soft, and woods were green.
   Longfellow.
   
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   Air artificially put in motion by any force or action; as, the wind of a cannon ball; the wind of a bellows.
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   Breath modulated by the respiratory and vocal organs, or by an instrument.
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   Their instruments were various in their kind,
   Some for the bow, and some for breathing wind.
   Dryden.
   
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   Power of respiration; breath.
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   If my wind were but long enough to say my prayers, I would repent.
   Shak.
   
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   Air or gas generated in the stomach or bowels; flatulence; as, to be troubled with wind.
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   Air impregnated with an odor or scent.
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   A pack of dogfish had him in the wind.
   Swift.
   
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   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.
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   Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe upon these slain.
   Ezek. xxxvii. 9.
   
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   ☞ This sense seems to have had its origin in the East. The Hebrews gave to each of the four cardinal points the name of wind.
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   (Far.) A disease of sheep, in which the intestines are distended with air, or rather affected with a violent inflammation. It occurs immediately after shearing.
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   Mere breath or talk; empty effort; idle words.
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   Nor think thou with wind
   Of airy threats to awe.
   Milton.
   
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   (Zool.) The dotterel. [Prov. Eng.]
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   (Boxing) 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. [Slang or Cant]
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   ☞ Wind is often used adjectively, or as the first part of compound words.
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   All in the wind. (Naut.) See under All, n. -- Before the wind. (Naut.) See under Before. -- Between wind and water (Naut.), in that part of a ship's side or bottom which is frequently brought above water by the rolling of the ship, or fluctuation of the water's surface. Hence, colloquially, (as an injury to that part of a vessel, in an engagement, is particularly dangerous) the vulnerable part or point of anything. -- Cardinal winds. See under Cardinal, a. -- Down the wind. (a) In the direction of, and moving with, the wind; as, birds fly swiftly down the wind. (b) Decaying; declining; in a state of decay. [Obs.] “He went down the wind still.” L'Estrange. -- In the wind's eye (Naut.), directly toward the point from which the wind blows. -- Three sheets in the wind, unsteady from drink. [Sailors' Slang] -- To be in the wind, to be suggested or expected; to be a matter of suspicion or surmise. [Colloq.] -- To carry the wind (Man.), to toss the nose as high as the ears, as a horse. -- To raise the wind, to procure money. [Colloq.] -- To take the wind or To have the wind, to gain or have the advantage. Bacon. -- To take the wind out of one's sails, to cause one to stop, or lose way, as when a vessel intercepts the wind of another; to cause one to lose enthusiasm, or momentum in an activity. [Colloq.] -- To take wind, or To get wind, to be divulged; to become public; as, the story got wind, or took wind. -- Wind band (Mus.), a band of wind instruments; a military band; the wind instruments of an orchestra. -- Wind chest (Mus.), a chest or reservoir of wind in an organ. -- Wind dropsy. (Med.) (a) Tympanites. (b) Emphysema of the subcutaneous areolar tissue. -- Wind egg, an imperfect, unimpregnated, or addled egg. -- Wind furnace. See the Note under Furnace. -- Wind gauge. See under Gauge. -- Wind gun. Same as Air gun. -- Wind hatch (Mining), the opening or place where the ore is taken out of the earth. -- Wind instrument (Mus.), an instrument of music sounded by means of wind, especially by means of the breath, as a flute, a clarinet, etc. -- Wind pump, a pump moved by a windmill. -- Wind rose, a table of the points of the compass, giving the states of the barometer, etc., connected with winds from the different directions. -- Wind sail. (a) (Naut.) A wide tube or funnel of canvas, used to convey a stream of air for ventilation into the lower compartments of a vessel. (b) The sail or vane of a windmill. -- Wind shake, a crack or incoherence in timber produced by violent winds while the timber was growing. -- Wind shock, a wind shake. -- Wind side, the side next the wind; the windward side. [R.] Mrs. Browning. -- Wind rush (Zool.), the redwing. [Prov. Eng.] -- Wind wheel, a motor consisting of a wheel moved by wind. -- Wood wind (Mus.), the flutes and reed instruments of an orchestra, collectively.
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   Wind , v. t. [imp. & p. p. Winded; p. pr. & vb. n. Winding.]
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   To expose to the wind; to winnow; to ventilate.
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   To perceive or follow by the scent; to scent; to nose; as, the hounds winded the game.
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   (a) To drive hard, or force to violent exertion, as a horse, so as to render scant of wind; to put out of breath. (b) To rest, as a horse, in order to allow the breath to be recovered; to breathe.
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   To wind a ship (Naut.), to turn it end for end, so that the wind strikes it on the opposite side.
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   Wind , v. t. [From Wind, moving air, but confused in sense and in conjugation with wind to turn.] [imp. & p. p. Wound , R. Winded; p. pr. & vb. n. Winding.] To blow; to sound by blowing; esp., to sound with prolonged and mutually involved notes. “Hunters who wound their horns.”
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   Ye vigorous swains, while youth ferments your blood, . . . 
   Wind the shrill horn.
   Pope.
   
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   That blast was winded by the king.
   Sir W. Scott.
   
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