·noun Power of respiration; breath.
II. Wind ·noun The Dotterel.
III. Wind ·noun Air impregnated with an odor or scent.
IV. Wind ·noun Mere breath or talk; empty effort; idle words.
V. Wind ·noun The act of winding or turning; a turn; a bend; a twist; a winding.
VI. Wind ·vt To introduce by insinuation; to Insinuate.
VII. Wind ·noun Air naturally in motion with any degree of velocity; a current of air.
VIII. Wind ·vt To cover or surround with something coiled about; as, to wind a rope with twine.
IX. Wind ·noun Air or gas generated in the stomach or bowels; flatulence; as, to be troubled with wind.
X. Wind ·vt To expose to the wind; to Winnow; to Ventilate.
XI. Wind ·noun Breath modulated by the respiratory and vocal organs, or by an Instrument.
XII. Wind ·vt To rest, as a horse, in order to allow the breath to be recovered; to Breathe.
XIII. Wind ·vt To Entwist; to Infold; to Encircle.
XIV. Wind ·noun Air artificially put in motion by any force or action; as, the wind of a cannon ball; the wind of a bellows.
XV. Wind ·vt To drive hard, or force to violent exertion, as a horse, so as to render scant of wind; to put out of breath.
XVI. Wind ·vt To Blow; to sound by blowing; ·esp., to sound with prolonged and mutually involved notes.
XVII. Wind ·vi 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.
XVIII. Wind ·vt To perceive or follow by the scent; to Scent; to Nose; as, the hounds winded the game.
XIX. Wind ·vi To turn completely or repeatedly; to become coiled about anything; to assume a convolved or spiral form; as, vines wind round a pole.
XX. Wind ·noun 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.
XXI. Wind ·noun A disease of sheep, in which the intestines are distended with air, or rather affected with a violent inflammation. It occurs immediately after shearing.
XXII. Wind ·add. ·noun 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.
XXIII. Wind ·vt To have complete control over; to turn and bend at one's pleasure; to vary or alter or will; to Regulate; to Govern.
XXIV. Wind ·vi To have a circular course or direction; to Crook; to Bend; to Meander; as, to wind in and out among trees.
XXV. Wind ·vt 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.