Emily Dickinson Lexicon

WIND, v.i.

1. To turn; to change. So swift your judgments turn and wind. – Dryden.
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 lab'ring underneath, ere they could wind / Out of such prison. – Milton.