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windy

WINDY, a.

1. Consisting of wind; as a windy tempest.

2. Next the wind; as the windy side.

3. Tempestuous; boisterous; as windy weather.

4. Puffy; flatulent; abounding with wind.

5. Empty; airy; as windy joy.


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WINDY, a.

1. Consisting of wind; as a windy tempest.

2. Next the wind; as the windy side.

3. Tempestuous; boisterous; as windy weather.

4. Puffy; flatulent; abounding with wind.

5. Empty; airy; as windy joy.

WIND'Y, a.

  1. Consisting of wind; as, a windy tempest. – Shak.
  2. Next the wind; as, the windy side. – Shak.
  3. Tempestuous; boisterous; as, windy weather.
  4. Puffy; flatulent; abounding with wind. – Arbuthnot.
  5. Empty; airy; as, windy joy. – Milton.

Wind"y
  1. Consisting of wind; accompanied or characterized by wind; exposed to wind.

    "The windy hill." M. Arnold.

    Blown with the windy tempest of my heart. Shak.

  2. Next the wind; windward.

    It keeps on the windy side of care. Shak.

  3. Tempestuous; boisterous; as, windy weather.
  4. Serving to occasion wind or gas in the intestines; flatulent; as, windy food.
  5. Attended or caused by wind, or gas, in the intestines.

    "A windy colic." Arbuthnot.
  6. Fig.: Empty; airy.

    "Windy joy." Milton.

    Here's that windy applause, that poor, transitory pleasure, for which I was dishonored. South.

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Windy

WINDY, adjective

1. Consisting of wind; as a windy tempest.

2. Next the wind; as the windy side.

3. Tempestuous; boisterous; as windy weather.

4. Puffy; flatulent; abounding with wind.

5. Empty; airy; as windy joy.

WIND, verb transitive preterit tense and participle passive wound. [G.]

1. To blow; to sound by blowing or inflation.

Wind the shrill horn.

2. To turn; to move, or cause to turn.

To turn and wind a fiery Pegasus.

3. To turn round some fixed object; to bind, or to form into a ball or coil by turning; as, to wind thread on a spool; to wind thread into a ball; to wind a rope into a coil.

4. To introduce by insinuation. The child winds himself into my affections.

They have little arts and dexterities to wind in such things into discourse.

5. To change; to vary.

Were our legislature vested in the prince, he might wind and turn our constitution at his pleasure.

6. To entwist; to enfold; to encircle.

7. [With I short, as in win.] To nose; to perceive or to follow by the scent; as, hounds wind an animal.

8. To ventilate; to expose to the wind; to winnow.

To wind off, [with I long.] To unwind.

To wind out, to extricate.

To wind up,

1. To bring to a small compass, as a ball of thread.

2. To bring to a conclusion or settlement; as, to wind up ones affairs.

3. To put in a state of renovated or continued motion.

Fate seemd to wind him up for fourscore years.

To wind up a clock, is to wind the cord by which the weights are suspended, round an axis or pin.

To wind up a watch, is to wind the spring round its axis or pin.

4. To raise by degrees.

Thus they wound up his temper to a pitch--

5. To straiten, as a string; to put in tune.

6. To put in order for regular action.

WIND, verb intransitive

1. To turn; to change.

So swift your judgments turn and wind.

2. To turn around something; as, vines wind around a pole.

3. To have a circular direction; as winding stairs.

4. To crook; to bend. The road winds in various places.

5. To move round; as, a hare pursued turns and winds.

To wind out, to be extricated; to escape.

Long labring underneath, ere they could wind out of such prison.

WINDER, noun One who winds.

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