Wind word meaning and definition

[noun] the act of winding or twisting; "he put the key in the old clock and gave it a good wind"
[noun] breath; "the collision knocked the wind out of him"
[noun] a reflex that expels intestinal gas through the anus
[noun] a musical instrument in which the sound is produced by an enclosed column of air that is moved by the breath
[noun] an indication of potential opportunity; "he got a tip on the stock market"; "a good lead for a job"
[noun] empty rhetoric or insincere or exaggerated talk; "that's a lot of wind"; "don't give me any of that jazz"
[noun] a tendency or force that influences events; "the winds of change"
[noun] air moving (sometimes with considerable force) from an area of high pressure to an area of low pressure; "trees bent under the fierce winds"; "when there is no wind, row"
[verb] raise or haul up with or as if with mechanical help; "hoist the bicycle onto the roof of the car"
[verb] form into a wreath
[verb] coil the spring of (some mechanical device) by turning a stem; "wind your watch"
[verb] wrap or coil around; "roll your hair around your finger"; "Twine the thread around the spool"
[verb] to move or cause to move in a sinuous, spiral, or circular course; "the river winds through the hills"; "the path meanders through the vineyards"; "sometimes, the gout wanders through the entire body"
[verb] catch the scent of; get wind of; "The dog nosed out the drugs"
[verb] extend in curves and turns; "The road winds around the lake"

\Wind\, n. (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]
\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}.] 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. Whether to wind The woodbine round this arbor. --Milton. 2. To entwist; to infold; to encircle. Sleep, and I will wind thee in arms. --Shak. 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. In his terms so he would him wind. --Chaucer. Gifts blind the wise, and bribes do please And wind all other witnesses. --Herrick. Were our legislature vested in the prince, he might wind and turn our constitution at his pleasure. --Addison. 4. To introduce by insinuation; to insinuate. You have contrived . . . to wind Yourself into a power tyrannical. --Shak. Little arts and dexterities they have to wind in such things into discourse. --Gov. of Tongue. 5. To cover or surround with something coiled about; as, to wind a rope with twine. {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.
\Wind\, 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. So swift your judgments turn and wind. --Dryden. 2. To have a circular course or direction; to crook; to bend; to meander; as, to wind in and out among trees. And where the valley winded out below, The murmuring main was heard, and scarcely heard, to flow. --Thomson. 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. 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. The lowing herd wind ?lowly o'er the lea. --Gray. To wind out, to extricate one's self; to escape. Long struggling underneath are they could wind Out of such prison. --Milton.
\Wind\, n. The act of winding or turning; a turn; a bend; a twist; a winding.
\Wind\ (w[i^]nd, in poetry and singing often w[imac]nd; 277), n. [AS. wind; akin to OS., OFries., D., & G. wind, OHG. wint, Dan. & Sw. vind, Icel. vindr, Goth winds, W. gwynt, L. ventus, Skr. v[=a]ta (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. v[=a] to blow, akin to AS. w[=a]wan, D. waaijen, G. wehen, OHG. w[=a]en, w[=a]jen, Goth. waian. [root]131. Cf. {Air}, {Ventail}, {Ventilate}, {Window}, {Winnow}.] 1. Air naturally in motion with any degree of velocity; a current of air. Except wind stands as never it stood, It is an ill wind that turns none to good. --Tusser. Winds were soft, and woods were green. --Longfellow. 2. Air artificially put in motion by any force or action; as, the wind of a cannon ball; the wind of a bellows. 3. Breath modulated by the respiratory and vocal organs, or by an instrument. Their instruments were various in their kind, Some for the bow, and some for breathing wind. --Dryden. 4. Power of respiration; breath. If my wind were but long enough to say my prayers, I would repent. --Shak. 5. Air or gas generated in the stomach or bowels; flatulence; as, to be troubled with wind. 6. Air impregnated with an odor or scent. A pack of dogfish had him in the wind. --Swift. 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. Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe upon these slain. --Ezek. xxxvii. 9. Note: 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. 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. 9. Mere breath or talk; empty effort; idle words. Nor think thou with wind Of airy threats to awe. --Milton. 10. (Zo["o]l.) The dotterel. [Prov. Eng.] Note: Wind is often used adjectively, or as the first part of compound words. {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.

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