Emily Dickinson Lexicon

WINDER, n.

One that winces, shrinks or kicks.

WIND'ER, v.t.

To fan; to clean grain with a fan. [Local.]

WIND'ER-MEB, n.

A bird of the genus Lams, or gull-kind. Cyc.

WIND'FALL, n. [wind and fall.]

1. Fruit blown off the tree by wind.
2. An unexpected legacy.

WIND'-FALL-EN, a.

Blown down by the wind. Drayton.

WIND'-FLOW-ER, n. [wind and fower.]

A plant, the anemone.

WIND-GAGE, n. [wind and gage.]

An instrument for ascertaining the velocity and force of wind. Cyc.

WIND'-GALL, n. [wind and gall.]

A soft tumor on the fetlock joints of a horse.

WIND'-GUN, n.

An air gun; a gun discharged by the force of compressed air.

WIND'-HATCH, n. [wind and hatch.]

In mining, the opening or place where the ore is taken out of the earth. Cyc.

WIND'-HOV-ER, n. [wind and hover.]

A species of hawk; called also the stannel but more usually the kestrel. Cyc.

WIND'I-NESS, n. [from windy.]

1. The state of being windy or tempestuous; as, the windiness of the weather or season.
2. Fullness of wind; flatulence. Harvey.
3. Tendency to generate wind; as, the windiness of vegetables.
4. Tumor; puffiness. The swelling windiness of much knowledge. Brerewood.

WIND-ING, n.

1. A turn or turning; a bend; flexure; meander; as, the windings of a road or stream.
2. A call by the boatswain's whistle.

WIND-ING, ppr.

1. Turning; binding about; bending.
2. adj. Bending; twisting from a direct line or an even surface.

WIND-ING-EN-GINE, n.

An engine employed in mining, to draw up buckets from a deep pit. Cyc.

WIND-ING-LY, adv.

In a winding or circuitous form.

WIND-ING-LY, adv.

In a winding direction.

WIND-ING-SHEET, n. [winding and sheet.]

A sheet in which a corpse is wrapped. Bacon.

WIND-ING-TACK-LE, n. [winding and tackle.]

A tackle consisting of one fixed triple block, and one double or triple of movable block. Dict.

WIND'-IN-STRU-MENT, st.

An instrument of music, played by wind, chiefly by the breath; as a flute, a clarinet, &c. Cyc.

WINDLASS, n. [wind and lace. Qu.]

1. A machine for raising great weights, consisting of a cylinder or roller of timber, moving on ite axis and turned by levers, with a rope or chain attached to the weight.
2. A handle by which any thing is turned. [Not in use.] Shak.

WIND'LE, n.

A spindle; a kind of reel.

WINDLESS, a.

Having no wind; calm.

WIND'-MILL, n. [wind and mill.]

A mill turned by tin wind. Mortimer.

WIND'OW, n. [Dan. vindue; Sp. ventana, from the same root as yenta, sale, vent of goods. The word in Spanish signifies also a nostril, that is, a passage. Ventaja is advantage; ventona, a valve, and ventall, a fan; ventear, to; blow. Hence we see that vent, L vendo, wind, fun, and van, Fr. avant, are all of one family. So is also the L. fe-; nests, Fr. fine' tre, D. venter, fenster, Ir. fineog. The t vulgar pronunciation is windor, as if from the Welsh gwyntdor, wind-door.]

1. An opening in the wall of u building for the admission of light, and of air when necessary. This opening has a frame on the sides, in which are set movable sashes, containing panes of glass. In the United States, the sashes are made to rise and fall, for the admission or exclusion of air. In France, windows are shut with frames or sashes that open and shut vertically, like the leaves of a folding door.
2. An aperture or opening. A window shalt thou make to the ark. Gen. vi.
3. The frame or other thing that covers the aperture. Ere I let fall the windows of mine eyes. Shak.
4. An aperture; or rather the clouds or water-spouts. The windows of heaven were opened. Gen. vii.
5. Lattice or casement; or the net work of wire used before the invention of glass. Judges V.
6. Lines crossing each other. Till he has windows on his bread and butter. King.