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. 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. 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 ]

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 ]

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 ]

n. [ From Wind air in motion. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. (Gun.) The difference between the diameter of the bore of a gun and that of the shot fired from it. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The sudden compression of the air caused by a projectile in passing close to another body. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See 3d Windlass. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The lower, or bottom, pipe in a lift of pumps in a mine. Ansted. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Naut.) prevented from sailing, by a contrary wind. See Weatherbound. [ 1913 Webster ]