1. (Arch.) A window forming a bay or recess in a room, and projecting outward from the wall, either in a rectangular, polygonal, or semicircular form; -- often corruptly called a bow window.
Syn. -- bay window, bow window, bow-window. [ 1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5 ]

2. a protruding abdomen. [ informal ]
Syn. -- belly, paunch, pot, potbelly, corporation, tummy. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

(Far.) The heaves. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Far.) Having short breath or disordered respiration, as a horse. [ 1913 Webster ]

or /mhw>, n. [ Literally, the window of a sleeping apartment. F. dormir to sleep. See Dormant, a. & n. ] (Arch.) A window pierced in a roof, and so set as to be vertical while the roof slopes away from it. Also, the gablet, or houselike structure, in which it is contained. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. on the side or in the direction away from the direction from which the wind is blowing; in the direction toward which the wind is blowing; as, good hunters stay downwind of their prey. Opposite of upwind, and windward.
Syn. -- lee(prenominal), leeward. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adv. With the wind. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. A driving wind; a wind that drives snow, sand, etc., into heaps. Beau. & Fl. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a window at a business establishment, such as a bank or restaurant, where patrons may transact business or order goods while staying in their automobiles; as, to cash a check at the drive-in window of the bank. [ PJC ]

. (Elec.) A method of armature winding in which the wire is wound upon the outer surface of a cylinder or drum from end to end of the cylinder; -- distinguished from ring winding, etc. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Dwindled p. pr. & vb. n. Dwindling ] [ From OE. dwinen to languish, waste away, AS. dwīnan; akin to LG. dwinen, D. dwijnen to vanish, Icel. dvīna to cease, dwindle, Sw. tvina; of uncertain origin. The suffix -le, preceded by d excrescent after n, is added to the root with a diminutive force. ] To diminish; to become less; to shrink; to waste or consume away; to become degenerate; to fall away. [ 1913 Webster ]

Weary sennights nine times nine
Shall he dwindle, peak and pine. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Religious societies, though begun with excellent intentions,
are said to have dwindled into factious clubs. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. 1. To make less; to bring low. [ 1913 Webster ]

Our drooping days are dwindled down to naught. Thomson. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To break; to disperse. [ R. ] Clarendon. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The process of dwindling; dwindlement; decline; degeneracy. [ R. ] Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act or process of dwindling; a dwindling. [ R. ] Mrs. Oliphant. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. gradually decreasing until little remains.
Syn. -- tapering, tapering off. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. the act or process of becoming gradually less until little remains; as, there is no greater sadness that the dwindling away of a family.
Syn. -- dwindling away. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. t. To wind about; to encircle. [ 1913 Webster ]

In the circle of his arms
Enwound us both. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A wind attending or presaged by the cloud called helm. [ Prov. Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A whirlwind. [ Obs. ] Sandys. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Long-breathed; hence, tediously long in speaking; consuming much time; as, a long-winded talker. [ 1913 Webster ]

A tedious, long-winded harangue. South. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. using or containing too many words; as, long-winded (or windy) speakers.
Syn. -- tedious, verbose, windy, wordy. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

-- Long"-wind"ed*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A window having louvers in place of glass, usually over the entire surface of the window. [ PJC ]

v. t. To extricate by winding; to unloose. [ R. ] Spenser. Dr. H. More. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To wind too tightly, as a spring, or too far, as a hoisting rope on a drum. [ 1913 Webster ]

. (Elec.) Armature winding in which the wire is wound round the outer and inner surfaces alternately of an annular or cylindrical core. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

(Bot.) A kind of bindweed (Convolvulus Soldanella) growing on the seacoast of Europe. [ 1913 Webster ]

. (Elec.) A winding in which the armature coil and the field-magnet coil are in series with the external circuits; -- opposed to shunt winding. -- Se"ries-wound`, a. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

a. Affected with shortness of breath; having a quick, difficult respiration, as dyspnoic and asthmatic persons. May. [ 1913 Webster ]

. (Elec.) A winding so arranged as to divide the armature current and lead a portion of it around the field-magnet coils; -- opposed to series winding. -- Shunt"-wound` a. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

n. 1. (Zool.) See Horned rattler, under Horned. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A stem-winding watch. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Hence: (Fig.) Anything of superior quality, as was attributed to the stem-winding watch; -- esp. used to describe a stirring speech, as in the phrase “a stem-winder of a speech” or “delivered a stem-winder”. [ PJC ]

a. Wound by mechanism connected with the stem; as, a stem-winding watch. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A heavy wind; a wind that brings a storm; the blast of a storm. Longfellow. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Swindled p. pr. & vb. n. Swindling ] [ See Swindler. ] To cheat defraud grossly, or with deliberate artifice; as, to swindle a man out of his property. [ 1913 Webster ]

Lammote . . . has swindled one of them out of three hundred livres. Carlyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act or process of swindling; a cheat. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ G. schwindler, fr. schwindlen to be dizzy, to act thoughtlessly, to cheat, fr. schwindel dizziness, fr. schwinden to vanish, to disappear, to dwindle. See Swim to be dizzy. ] One who swindles, or defrauds grossly; one who makes a practice of defrauding others by imposition or deliberate artifice; a cheat. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Sharper; rogue. -- Swindler, Sharper. These words agree in describing persons who take unfair advantages. A swindler is one who obtains money or goods under false pretenses. A sharper is one who cheats by sharp practice, as in playing at cards or staking what he can not pay. [ 1913 Webster ]

Fraud and injustice soon follow, and the dignity of the British merchant is sunk in the scandalous appellation of a swindler. V. Knox. [ 1913 Webster ]

Perhaps you 'll think I act the same
As a sly sharper plays his game. Cotton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Swindling; rougery. [ R. ] “Swindlery and blackguardism.” Carlyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

(Far.) A defect of respiration in a horse, that is unassociated with noise in breathing or with the signs of emphysema. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Far.) Affected with thick wind. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ AS. unwindan. See 1st Un-, and Wind to coil. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. To wind off; to loose or separate, as what or convolved; to untwist; to untwine; as, to unwind thread; to unwind a ball of yarn. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To disentangle. [ Obs. ] Hooker. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To be or become unwound; to be capable of being unwound or untwisted. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To wind up. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. being or moving in the direction from which the wind is blowing. [ PJC ]

adv. Against the wind; toward the direction from which the wind is blowing. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC ]

. (Meteorol.) A wind associated with a volcanic outburst and due to the eruption or to convection currents over hot lava. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ Cf. Icel. hvirfilvindr, Sw. hvirfvelvind, Dan. hvirvelvind, G. wirbelwind. See Whirl, and Wind, n. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. A violent windstorm of limited extent, as the tornado, characterized by an inward spiral motion of the air with an upward current in the center; a vortex of air. It usually has a rapid progressive motion. [ 1913 Webster ]

The swift dark whirlwind that uproots the woods.
And drowns the villages. Bryant. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Some meteorologists apply the word whirlwind to the larger rotary storm also, such as cyclones. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Fig.: A body of objects sweeping violently onward. “The whirlwind of hounds and hunters.” Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

Whether to wind
The woodbine round this arbor. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To entwist; to infold; to encircle. [ 1913 Webster ]

Sleep, and I will wind thee in arms. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

In his terms so he would him wind. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

Gifts blind the wise, and bribes do please
And wind all other witnesses. Herrick. [ 1913 Webster ]

Were our legislature vested in the prince, he might wind and turn our constitution at his pleasure. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To introduce by insinuation; to insinuate. [ 1913 Webster ]

You have contrived . . . to wind
Yourself into a power tyrannical. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Little arts and dexterities they have to wind in such things into discourse. Gov. of Tongue. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. To cover or surround with something coiled about; as, to wind a rope with twine. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. 1. To turn completely or repeatedly; to become coiled about anything; to assume a convolved or spiral form; as, vines wind round a pole. [ 1913 Webster ]

So swift your judgments turn and wind. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To have a circular course or direction; to crook; to bend; to meander; as, to wind in and out among trees. [ 1913 Webster ]

And where the valley winded out below,
The murmuring main was heard, and scarcely heard, to flow. Thomson. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

The lowing herd wind &unr_;lowly o'er the lea. Gray. [ 1913 Webster ]

To wind out, to extricate one's self; to escape.
Long struggling underneath are they could wind
Out of such prison. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of winding or turning; a turn; a bend; a twist; a winding. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. 'ah`ths a blast, gale, 'ah^nai 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. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. Air naturally in motion with any degree of velocity; a current of air. [ 1913 Webster ]

Except wind stands as never it stood,
It is an ill wind that turns none to good. Tusser. [ 1913 Webster ]

Winds were soft, and woods were green. Longfellow. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Air artificially put in motion by any force or action; as, the wind of a cannon ball; the wind of a bellows. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Breath modulated by the respiratory and vocal organs, or by an instrument. [ 1913 Webster ]

Their instruments were various in their kind,
Some for the bow, and some for breathing wind. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Power of respiration; breath. [ 1913 Webster ]

If my wind were but long enough to say my prayers, I would repent. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. Air or gas generated in the stomach or bowels; flatulence; as, to be troubled with wind. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. Air impregnated with an odor or scent. [ 1913 Webster ]

A pack of dogfish had him in the wind. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe upon these slain. Ezek. xxxvii. 9. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

8. (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. [ 1913 Webster ]

9. Mere breath or talk; empty effort; idle words. [ 1913 Webster ]

Nor think thou with wind
Of airy threats to awe. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

10. (Zool.) The dotterel. [ Prov. Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

11. (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 ] [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

☞ Wind is often used adjectively, or as the first part of compound words. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Winded; p. pr. & vb. n. Winding. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. To expose to the wind; to winnow; to ventilate. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To perceive or follow by the scent; to scent; to nose; as, the hounds winded the game. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (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. [ 1913 Webster ]

To wind a ship (Naut.), to turn it end for end, so that the wind strikes it on the opposite side. [ 1913 Webster ]

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.” Pennant. [ 1913 Webster ]

Ye vigorous swains, while youth ferments your blood, . . .
Wind the shrill horn. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

That blast was winded by the king. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]