Word Meanings - LABYRINTHIAN - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Intricately winding; like a labyrinth; perplexed; labyrinthal.
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- WINDFLOWER
The anemone; -- so called because formerly supposed to open only when the wind was blowing. See Anemone. - WIND-RODE
Caused to ride or drive by the wind in opposition to the course of the tide; -- said of a vessel lying at anchor, with wind and tide opposed to each other. Totten. - WINDINGLY
In a winding manner. - WINDTIGHT
So tight as to prevent the passing through of wind. Bp. Hall. - WINDLACE
See SCOTT - WIND-SHAKEN
Shaken by the wind; specif. , - LABYRINTHAL
Pertaining to, or resembling, a labyrinth; intricate; labyrinthian. - WINDBORE
The lower, or bottom, pipe in a lift of pumps in a mine. Ansted. - LABYRINTHINE
Pertaining to, or like, a labyrinth; labyrinthal. - LABYRINTHICI
An order of teleostean fishes, including the Anabas, or climbing perch, and other allied fishes. Note: They have, connected with the gill chamber, a special cavity in which a labyrinthiform membrane is arranged so as to retain water to supply the - WIND-SUCKER
The kestrel. B. Jonson. (more info) 1. A horse given to wind-sucking Law. - PERPLEX
1. To involve; to entangle; to make intricate or complicated, and difficult to be unraveled or understood; as, to perplex one with doubts. No artful wildness to perplex the scene. Pope. What was thought obscure, perplexed, and too hard for our - LABYRINTHIC; LABYRINTHICAL
Like or pertaining to a labyrinth. - LABYRINTHIFORM
Having the form of a labyrinth; intricate. - WINDINESS
1. The quality or state of being windy or tempestuous; as, the windiness of the weather or the season. 2. Fullness of wind; flatulence. 3. Tendency to generate wind or gas; tendency to produce flatulence; as, the windiness of vegetables. 4. Tumor; - WINDBOUND
prevented from sailing, by a contrary wind. See Weatherbound. - LABYRINTHIAN
Intricately winding; like a labyrinth; perplexed; labyrinthal. - INTRICATELY
In an intricate manner. - WINDSOR
A town in Berkshire, England. Windsor bean. See under Bean. -- Windsor chair, a kind of strong, plain, polished, wooden chair. Simmonds. -- Windsor soap, a scented soap well known for its excellence. - WINDING
A call by the boatswain's whistle. - UNPERPLEX
To free from perplexity. Donne. - BROKEN WIND
The heaves. - THICK WIND
A defect of respiration in a horse, that is unassociated with noise in breathing or with the signs of emphysema. - WHIRLWIND
1. A violent windstorm of limited extent, as the tornado, characterized by an inward spiral motion of the air with an upward current in the center; a vortex of air. It usually has a rapid progressive motion. The swift dark whirlwind that uproots - UP-WIND
Against the wind. - THICK-WINDED
Affected with thick wind. - DRUM WINDING
A method of armature winding in which the wire is wound upon the outer surface of a cylinder or drum from end to end of the cylinder; -- distinguished from ring winding, etc. - DORMER; DORMER WINDOW
A window pierced in a roof, and so set as to be vertical while the roof slopes away from it. Also, the gablet, or houselike structure, in which it is contained. - DWINDLEMENT
The act or process of dwindling; a dwindling. Mrs. Oliphant.